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A weekly agricultural magazine for those who live by the land.
Introduced by John Cherrington.

The Land Settlement Association:
Harry Hunt visits the Foxash estate, near Manningtree, Essex, and interviews Bob Strange, the Manager.

For Sugar-Beet Growers:
A visit to the National Sugar-Beet Thinning and Drilling Demonstration at Wittering, near Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Commentator, John Hawkins, of the National Institute of Agricultural Engineering

From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Item presenter (The Land Settlement Association):
Harry Hunt
Interviewee (The Land Settlement Association):
Bob Strange
Commentator (For Sugar-Beet Growers):
John Hawkins
Film Sequences:
The BBC Agricultural Film Unit
Cameraman:
John Bird
Editor:
Iris Lewis
Film Sequences:
The Midland Region Film Unit
Director:
John McGonagle
Producer:
Hilary Phillips

Junior Sportsview takes outside broadcast cameras to Paddington Recreation Ground for the second of two programmes on Athletics.
Schools teams of boys and girls from Kent, Essex, Middlesex, and Surrey compete and are coached in Half-Mile-Discus, Pole Vault-Relay.
Coaches, Geoffrey Dyson and John Le Mesurier
Introduced by Max Robertson.
Televised in co-operation with the four County Schools Athletic Associations

Contributors

Presenter:
Max Robertson
Coach:
Geoffrey Dyson
Coach:
John Le Mesurier
Producer:
Douglas Fleming

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Macdonald Hastings and this week, Alex McEwen

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Singer/Guitarist:
Alex McEwen
Producer:
Donald Baverstock

(Next episode on Monday)

Contributors

Producer:
Gerard Glaister
Script:
Allan Prior
Designer:
Austen Spriggs
Jim Turner:
Philip Ray
Megs Turner:
Nancy Nevinson
Tom Turner:
Brian McDermott
Hughie Turner:
Barry MacGregor
Gwyneth Turner:
Gillian Gale
Robin Starr:
Michael Murray
Jane Starr:
Deirdre Day
Ackroyd:
Derek Tansley
Harry Crane:
Arnold Ridley
Mrs. Neale:
Edevain Park
Mrs. Sharp:
Winifred Hill
Joe Trimmer:
George Roderick
Mary Tennison:
Patricia Mort
Election Party Agent:
Hugh Stewart
Forbes:
Glenn Williams

Billy Cotton calls Wakey Wakey in The Billy Cotton Band Show
with Alan Breeze and Kathie Kay.
Also involved: The High-Lights, The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
and Guest star, Alma Cogan

Contributors

Presenter/bandleader:
Billy Cotton
Musicians:
The Billy Cotton Band
Singer:
Alan Breeze
Singer:
Kathie Kay
Singers:
The High-Lights
Dancers:
The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes
Singer:
Alma Cogan
Script:
Jimmy Grafton
Choreographer/Associate Producer:
Leslie Roberts
Production:
Bill Cotton Jnr.

A new play by Robert Bolt.
[Starring] Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson in a scene from Flowering Cherry
Televised direct from the Theatre Royal. Haymarket by arrangement with H. M. Tennent Ltd. and Frith Banbury Ltd.
Introduced by the author.

Contributors

Writer/presenter:
Robert Bolt
Settings designed by:
Reece Pemberton
Director:
Frith Banbury
Presented for television by:
John Vernon
Isobel Cherry:
Celia Johnson
Tom:
Andrew Ray
David Bowman:
Brewster Mason
Cherry:
Ralph Richardson
Carol:
Susan Burnet
Judy:
Dudy Nimmo

This film examines the power of the mind to withstand solitary confinement, brutality, and the ceaseless psychological attacks of trained Communist interrogators.
Four cases are examined. First, Dr. Edith Bone, who spent seven years in solitary confinement gaols in Hungary; then William Oatis, the American journalist, who confessed to charges of espionage in the Czechoslovakian spy case; three American airmen who were involved in the Chinese attempt to make them confess to charges of germ warfare during the Korean War; and finally Robert Ford, the British wireless operator in Tibet, captured by the Chinese, who was subjected to the entire lengthy process of Communist indoctrination.
Introduced by Walter Cronkite.
Produced by the Columbia Broadcasting System in the series 'The Twentieth Century'

Contributors

Presenter:
Walter Cronkite

The most sinister weapon of the modern police state is thought control. Earlier this evening an American film outlined some of the methods used to produce confessions from prisoners.
Discussing the issues raised by this film are:
A Consultant Psychiatrist, Major Anthony Farrar-Hockley, D.S.O., M.C. who was taken prisoner during the Korean War and interrogated under torture by the North Koreans and A Physician in Psychological Medicine.

Contributors

Panellist:
A Consultant Psychiatrist [name uncredited]
Panellist:
Major Anthony Farrar-Hockley
Panellist:
A Physician in Psychological Medicine [name uncredited]
Producer:
Hugh Burnett

BBC Television

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