(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.30)
(BBC television film)
A topical diversion.
Leonard Sachs introducing people and events of the day including
Gilbert Harding, John Witty and some cats, Women of the Year and a story from
David Kossoff.
(to 15.30)
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.
(On transmitters serving the areas)
News from Wales 6.15-6.20
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
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
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
(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
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.
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
A cartoon satire made by the National Film Board of Canada.
followed by Weather and Close Down