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presents
Children's Newsreel

5.10 Playbox
Eamonn Andrews opens Playbox
helped by Tony Hart.
including:
The Six Clue Challenge: 6: A Thief in the Night
by Vere Lorrimer.
where you can try your hand at being a detective.
with Ivan Owen as Inspector Bruce, Joy Stewart as Nurse Carter.
The Inter-Regional Quiz Championship
in which children from all over the country take part.

Contributors

Presenter (Playbox):
Eamonn Andrews
Co-presenter (Playbox):
Tony Hart
Producer (Playbox):
Gerald Wiltshire
Writer (Playbox:
The Six Clue Challenge): Vere Lorrimer
Inspector Bruce (Playbox:
The Six Clue Challenge): Ivan Owen
Nurse Carter (Playbox:
The Six Clue Challenge): Joy Stewart

The programme of pets for people with pets visits The Ferne Animal Sanctuary, Dorset.
Peter West and Stanley Dangerfield tell the story of the Sanctuary with the aid of Mollie Atherton who now runs it.
A weekly series edited by Stanley Dangerfield

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter West
Presenter/editor:
Stanley Dangerfield
Interviewee:
Mollie Atherton
Producer:
Peter Bale

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

Contributors

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

Alan Melville takes you from A-Z through the world of entertainment.
This week's programme deals with letter 'E' and is produced by Bryan Sears.
Artists include:
Edith Evans, Norman Evans

Edinburgh Festival
A summing-up by Diana Churchill.

Equity
The Performer's Trade Union discussed by The General Secretary, Gerald Croasdell and Margaret Rawlings.

Eisteddfod
Represented by the London Welsh Association Youth Choir.
Conductor, Terry James

The music of Duke Ellington with Beryl Kaye and The Dancers

Contributors

Presenter/Script:
Alan Melville
Producer:
Bryan Sears
Actress:
Edith Evans
Comedian:
Norman Evans
Item presenter (Edinburgh Festival):
Diana Churchill
Speaker (Equity):
Gerald Croasdell
Speaker (Equity):
Margaret Rawlings
Singers (Eisteddfod):
London Welsh Association Youth Choir
Conductor:
Terry James
Dancers:
Beryl Kaye
Research:
Therese McHugh
Based on an idea by:
Wolf Mankowitz
Choreography:
Beryl Kaye
Designer:
Tony Abbott
Orchestra directed by:
Eric Robinson

(See above and page 4)

At 8.15 Peter Dimmock introduces
Sports Review of 1958
Featuring the Sportsview Personality of the Year
The name will be announced at the climax of this gala programme

Whose year was it? Sportsview films recall the deeds that made these champions - Mike Hawthorn... Ian Black... John Surtees... Brian Hewson... Judy Grinham... Herb Elliott... The Konrads... The Wightman Cup Girls... and the Brazilian Footballers

Tonight's Sportsview comes from the Grosvenor House, London, where 200 sports personalities are at a dinner to mark the presentations to the BBC Sports Personality of the Year and the 'Daily Express' National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year
Field-Marshall Lord Harding G.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. will present the trophies to the National Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year

Sports Review of 1958 is written and edited by Paul Fox

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Dimmock
Writer/Editor:
Paul Fox
Film Commentator:
Leonard Martin
Film Commentator:
John Stagg
Film Editor:
Dennis Edwards
Film Editor:
Alan Tetzner
Presented for television by:
Bryan Cowgill

A series of four half-hour films by Axel Poignant and Roslyn Poignant.

The two Australians meet the three Saints of Trecastagni and visit the curious town of Sperlinga built into a huge rock; they also take part in the Procession of the Madonna through the streets of Trapani for a day and a night.

Contributors

Presenter:
Axel Poignant
Presenter:
Roslyn Poignant
Sound editor:
Robert Walter
Presented by:
Brian Branston

A fortnightly programme in which a panel of experts is challenged to identify a number of unusual objects.
Tonight's Experts:
Norman Cook, Keeper, Guildhall Museum, London
Mrs. Molly Harrison, Curator, Geffrye Museum, London
Hugh Shortt, Curator of Salisbury, South Wilts., and Blackmore Museum
Tonight's Challengers: The Pinto Collection of Wooden Bygones
Chairman: Rupert Bruce-Mitford, Keeper of the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities in the British Museum

Contributors

Expert:
Norman Cook
Expert:
Molly Harrison
Expert:
Hugh Shortt
Chairman:
Rupert Bruce-Mitford
Presented By:
Brian Branston

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