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A topical diversion with Roma Fairley introducing people and events of the day.
including:

Beryl Grey, Dilys Powell

Emigrants to Australia

Ailsa Garland who investigates a school for skin divers

and a story from John Laurie.

(to 15.30)

Contributors

Presenter:
Roma Fairley
Item presenter:
Beryl Grey
Item presenter:
Dilys Powell
Item presenter:
Ailsa Garland
Storyteller:
John Laurie
Director:
Richard Gilbert
Producer:
Joyce Bullen

A Hungarian fairy-tale film.
Three brothers leave home and seek their fortunes. They each take a different road and meet with different adventures involving giants, witches, and gnomes. Although a wicked innkeeper tries to rob them, they eventually return home safely with some unusual treasures.
(Previously shown on April 6, 1958)

Contributors

Narrator/voices:
Johnny Morris
Photographed and directed by:
Felix Bodrossy

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Singer/guitarist:
Cy Grant
Singer/guitarist:
Noel Harrison
Producer:
Donald Baverstock

The Stars of Sport join Peter Dimmock in Sportsview
A special edition looking ahead to a new year of sport.
Including filmed interviews with Billy Wright, Herb Elliott, Peter Radford, Christine Truman, Donald Campbell, Stirling Moss, John Surtees, John Charles who are some of the personalities giving their New Year Resolutions.

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Dimmock
Interviewee:
Billy Wright
Interviewee:
Herb Elliott
Interviewee:
Peter Radford
Interviewee:
Christine Truman
Interviewee:
Donald Campbell
Interviewee:
Stirling Moss
Interviewee:
John Surtees
Interviewee:
John Charles
Editor:
Paul Fox
Editor:
Ronnie Noble
Presented by:
Bryan Cowgill

Bertram Montague's traditional pantomime in twelve scenes with an all-star cast.
See panel and page 5

'Dick Whittington and His Cat'
In twelve scenes with an all-star cast

The George Mitchell Singers Sailors and villagers

The Television Toppers

Produced by Bertram Montague and Richard Afton at 8.0

Contributors

Producer:
Bertram Montague
Producer:
Richard Afton
Idle Jack:
Max Miller
Dick Wellington:
Jean Kent
Sarah the Cook:
Nat Mills
Alice Fitzwarren:
Jill Westlake
Captain:
Vic Wise
The Cat:
Jack Brennan
Fairy Queen:
Audrey Craft
Alderman Fitzwarren:
Jon Pertwee
The Emperor of Morocco:
Lester Ferguson
Coiffeur to Fitzwarren:
null Raymond
Mate:
Kenneth Connor
King Rat:
Bill Pertwee
Pan:
Pamela Young
[Actor]:
null Noberti
Orchestra conducted by:
Eric Robinson
Dance direction:
Larry Gordon
Based on a script by:
Barry Lupino, Snr.

1st Prize Television Documentary

The first full story of the 'mattanza', the yearly life-and-death struggle between the island fishermen and the shoals of huge tunny-fish on which their survival depends. A recording of an outside broadcast.
Produced for Radiotelevisione Italiana by Carlo Alberto Chiesa
Commentary spoken by Dino Galvani.

Contributors

Producer:
Carlo Alberto Chiesa
Narrator:
Dino Galvani
English version:
Maurice Harvey

A romantic film comedy.
[Starring] Ginger Rogers and David Niven

Pretty Polly Parrish, a salesgirl in a big department store, is on her way home, exhausted after the rush of Christmas shoppers, when she finds an abandoned baby. And by the time the New Year bells ring out, some surprising new resolutions have been made.
See facing page

Contributors

Director:
Garson Kanin
Polly Parrish:
Ginger Rogers
David Merlin:
David Niven
J.B. Merlin:
Charles Coburn
Freddie Miller:
Frank Albertson
Butler:
E.E. Clive
The Baby:
Elbert Coplen, Jnr
Mrs. Weiss:
Ferike Boros

'Behold, I make all things new'
(Revelation 21, v. 5)
A Watch-Night Service from the newly consecrated Crypt Chapel of the new
Coventry Cathedral.
The service conducted and a film sequence introduced by The Provost of Coventry,
The Very Rev. H. C. N. Williams and A New Year Message given by The Bishop of Coventry, The Rt. Rev. Cuthbert Bardsley.

Contributors

Service conductor/film sequence introduced by:
The Very Rev. H. C. N. Williams
Speaker:
The Rev. Cuthbert Bardsley

Robert Wilson invites you to A New Year Party at The White Heather Club
Among the guests will be:
Jimmy Logan, Alistair McHarg, Anne and Laura Brand, The Joe Gordon Folk Four, The Andrew Macpherson Singers, The Gie Gordons, Jimmy Shand and his Band
From the BBC's television studios in Scotland
(Robert Wilson is appearing at the Tivoli, Aberdeen; Jimmy Logan is in 'Sinbad the Sailor' at the Alexandra Theatre, Glasgow; Alistair McHarg in 'Mother Goose' at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Wilson
Comedian:
Jimmy Logan
Singer:
Alistair McHarg
Singers:
Anne and Laura Brand
Group:
The Joe Gordon Folk Four
Singers:
The Andrew Macpherson Singers
Dancers:
The Gie Gordons
Musicians:
Jimmy Shand and his Band
Designer:
Robert MacGowan
Producer:
Iain MacFadyen

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