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What is the connection between designIng a model village for use in filming and finding the height of a pyramid from a short measuring stick and the sun's rays? This and other questions are answered in today's programme.
Introduced by Colin Ronan.
(A BBC recording of the broadcast shown on October 20)

Contributors

Presenter:
Colin Ronan
Producer:
Donald Grattan

Come and Join Us: Widowed Mothers and their difficulties
Discussed by members of the National Council of Women of Great Britain in the Manchester area, led by their President, The Marchioness of Readings, C.B.E., J.P.
with
Edith Pitt, O.B.E., M.P., Joint Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance
and Dennis Chapman, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Social Science at Liverpool University
In the chair, Doreen Stephens, Editor, Women's Television Programmes
From the BBC's North of England television studio

3.15 Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler
From the BBC's Midland television studio
Next week's Radio Times will include a 'Keep Fit' supplement

(to 15.30)

Contributors

Panellist (Come and Join Us):
Edith Pitt
Panellist (Come and Join Us):
Dennis Chapman
Chairman (Come and Join Us):
Doreen Stephens
Director (Come and Join Us):
Charles Farmer
Exerciser (Keep Fit):
Eileen Fowler
Arranged by (Keep Fit):
Ann Shead
Music arranged and played by (Keep Fit):
Helen Shields
Presented by (Keep Fit):
Desmond O'Leary

Your Monday Magazine
Introduced by Vera McKechnie.

Building a Model Race Track: Part 5
with Rex Hays.

Point of View
A spot for budding artists with Rolf Harris.

The Confrey Phillips Trio

Candy Bar
How to make sweets of all nations.

Stan Unwin on the Fundamolds of Lion Taming

Stamp Collection

Zodiac Quiz

Contributors

Presenter:
Vera McKechnie
Item presenter (Building a Model Race Track):
Rex Hays
Item presenter (Point of View):
Rolf Harris
Musicians:
The Confrey Phillips Trio
Item presenter (Fundamolds of Lion Taming):
Stan Unwin
Presented by:
Leonard Chase

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Singer/guitarist:
Rory McEwen
Singer/guitarist:
Alex McEwen
Producer:
Donald Baverstock

Eamonn Andrews says 'This Is Your Life' to ?
The 'This Is Your Life' theme was written by James Turner and played by an orchestra under George Clouston

Contributors

Presenter:
Eamonn Andrews
Script and research:
Nigel Ward
Script and research:
Michael Williams
Theme written by:
James Turner
Theme played by an orchestra under:
George Clouston
Director:
Vere Lorrimer
Producer:
T. Leslie Jackson
'This Is Your Life' devised by:
Ralph Edwards

A serial for television by Patrick Campbell from the novel 'Trial and Error' by Anthony Berkeley.
[Starring] Mervyn Johns as Lawrence Todhunter with Campbell Cotts, Kynaston Reeves, Ballard Berkeley
(Ann Firbank appears by permission of Ealing M.G.M. Artists Ltd.)

Contributors

Writer:
Patrick Campbell
From the novel "Trial and Error" by:
Anthony Berkeley
Designer:
Barry Learoyd
Producer:
Andrew Osborn
Sir Ernest Prettiboy:
Campbell Cotts
Lawrence Todhunter:
Mervyn Johns
Ambrose Chitterwick:
Kynaston Reeves
Chief Detective-Inspector Moresby:
Ballard Berkeley
Detective-Sergeant Williams:
Peter Bryant
Felicity Farroway:
Ann Firbank
Mrs. Farroway:
Gladys Boot
Digby Powell-Hancock, M.P.:
Olaf Pooley
Newspaper reporter:
David Ludman
Viola Palmer:
Margaret Anderson
Mrs. Greenhill:
Beatrice Rows

The Weekly Window on the World
Each Monday Panorama cameras bring home the challenge of Places - People - Problems that make news.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby and the team of Panorama commentators.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Dimbleby
Editor/Producer:
Rex Moorfoot
Associate producer:
David Wheeler
Associate producer:
Kenneth Lamb

with the BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Jack Leon
At the piano, Neville Houghton
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland
(Neville Houghton is appearing at the Piccadilly Club, Glasgow)

Contributors

Singer/impressionist:
Margo Henderson
Musicians:
The BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
[Orchestra] conductor:
Jack Leon
Pianist:
Neville Houghton
Producer:
Eddie Fraser.

(Eleventh Year)
[Starring] Victor Silvester
From the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale with his Ballroom Orchestra.
Demonstrations by Sammy Leckie and Vera McCartan, Sammy Harris and Pearl Rudd, The Constance Millington Formation Team from Liverpool
Also presenting the second heat of the 1958-59 Competition for the Television Dancing Club Trophies
Victor Silvester's Dancing Lesson with Christine Norton featuring The Cha-Cha
Hostess, Rosalie Ashley

Contributors

Musicians:
Victor Silvester with his Ballroom Orchestra
Dancer:
Sammy Leckie
Dancer:
Vera McCartan
Dancer:
Sammy Harris
Dancer:
Pearl Rudd
Formation dancers:
The Constance Millington Formation Team
Dancer (Victor Silvester's Dancing Lesson):
Victor Silvester
Dancer (Victor Silvester's Dancing Lesson):
Christine Norton
Hostess:
Rosalie Ashley
Script:
Victor Silvester, Jnr
Producer:
Richard Arron

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