Bwrw golwg dros bynciau'r dydd mewn sgwrs a ffilm-a chyfle i gwrdd a rhai sy'n amlwg yn y newyddion.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.30)

For the Very Young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your children, and invites them to join in songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(BBC television film)

Holidays Ahead
Recollections on film of this year's holidays and news of the next series of programmes bringing suggestions for holidays in 1959.
Introduced by John Lindsay.

3.5 Nine Candles to Christmas
One of the many Swedish customs is to light a candle in the home every day from Advent to Christmas. Mai Zetterling recalls this and other traditional preparations in her homeland.

(to 15.30)

BBC Television Puppet Theatre presents The Winkleberg Armourer
Written and produced by Gordon Murray.
(BBC recording)

(Roy Skelton is in "Chrysanthemum" at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London; Derek Nimmo is at the Theatre Royal, Windsor)
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The story of a Christmas card.
(Filmed at a Greeting Card factory in Leeds)

Betty Ross presents a film from Mexico.
Pedro, a young Mexican orphan boy, sets to work to get himself a new pair of boots, but things do not turn out as he expects.

On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20

A weekly 'Do It Yourself' programme with Barry Bucknell.
Company for Christmas
Fitting in the Extra Guests
(BBC recording)

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Cy Grant and Noel Harrison

[Starring] Frankie Howerd
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A new comedy by Arthur Watkyn.
[Starring] Wilfrid Hyde White
Televised direct from the Criterion Theatre, London (by arrangement with Henry Sherek)

[Starring] Jimmy Rushing, America's great Blues Singer
with Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton
(BBC recording)
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In tonight's programme, the last in a series of seven dealing with British influence in the Commonwealth, Aidan Crawley visits a continent inhabited almost entirely by people of British origin, and looks at the character of the civilisation they have produced.

A light entertainment.
Introduced by Duncan Macrae.
The Company: Patricia Raine, Jimmy Thompson, April Olrich, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Joan Pethers, Salvatore Pantalone, Katharine Feather, John Howard, Una Stubbs, Teddy Green
The Palette Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum)
Directed by Arthur Wilkinson
Musical numbers staged by John Heawood with special orchestrations by Arthur Wilkinson

followed by Weather and Close Down