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by Dr. L. Harrison Matthews

Bats are the only true flying mammals in the world and for this reason are of very great interest. This programme shows not only some of the thirteen kinds of bats known in Britain, but also illustrates feeding habits, hibernation, and flight by echo-sounding.

(BBC recording of the broadcast first shown on February 9)
(Repeated on Friday at 11.20 a.m.)

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr. L. Harrison Matthews
Producer:
Eric Simms

Come and Join Us
Is the indiscriminate use of tranquillisers dangerous?
A discussion between members of the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes, led by their chairman, Mrs. Shann with A Consultant Psychiatrist and A Family Doctor.
In the chair, Doreen Stephens Editor, Women's Television Programmes
From the BBC's television studio in Glasgow

3.15 Keep Fit with Eileen Fowler
From the BBC's Midland television studio

(to 15.30)

Contributors

Panellist (Come and Join Us):
A Consultant Psychiatrist [name uncredited]
Panellist (Come and Join Us):
A Family Doctor [name uncredited]
Chairman (Come and Join Us):
Doreen Stephens
Director (Come and Join Us):
Lea Ashton
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

Vera McKechnie introduces Your Monday Magazine.

Stamps with a Difference
with Kenneth Chapman.

Candy Bar
How to make sweets of many nations.

Current Film Releases
Including scenes from the making of 'Operation Amsterdam'.

Books on the Cinema

Wet or Fine?
Make your own weather-house.

The Mighty Terror

The Shake Keane Calypsonians

Stamp Collection

Zodiac Quiz

Contributors

Presenter:
Vera McKechnie
Item presenter (Stamps with a Difference):
Kenneth Chapman
Calypsonian:
The Mighty Terror
Calypsonians:
The Shake Keane Calypsonians
Producer:
Leonard Chase

A new Francis Durbridge serial in six episodes.
[Starring] Stephen Murray, Donald Pleasence with Leo Britt
See page 4

Contributors

Writer:
Francis Durbridge
Producer:
Alan Fromly
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Edward Collins:
Patrick Troughton
Gerald Quincey:
Anthony Valentine
Det.-Insp. Yates:
Donald Pleasence
Jill Yates:
June Ellis
Det.-Sgt. Jeffreys:
Peter Halliday
John Hopedean:
Leo Britt
P.C. Shaw:
Frank Pemberton
Inspector Rowland:
Fred Ferris
Eric:
Reginald Barratt
Clifton Morris:
Stephen Murray
Norman:
Neal Arden
Kim Stevens:
Vilma Ann Leslie
Hector:
Alan Edmiston
P.C. Kent:
Edward Higgins
Alistair Goodman:
Bryan Coleman

(Eleventh Year)
[Starring] Victor Silvester with his Ballroom Orchestra from the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale.
Demonstrations by Wally Fryer and Violet Barnes, Henry Kingston and Joy Tolhurst, The Maurice Jay Formation Team from Hackney
Presenting the second semi-final of the 1958-59 Competition for the Television Dancing Club Trophies.
Victor Silvester's Dancing Lesson with Christine Norton features the Cha-Cha Cha.
Hostess, Rosalie Ashley

Contributors

Musicians:
Victor Silvester with his Ballroom Orchestra
Dancer:
Wally Fryer
Dancer:
Violet Barnes
Formation dancers:
The Maurice Jay 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 Afton

The first of three programmes in which Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth introduce excerpts from their new show.
During their travels abroad to perform before foreign audiences, Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth have often been fascinated by local brands of puppetry which are very different from our own. This evening they show some of the puppets they have collected in Europe and Asia.

Contributors

Presenter/puppeteer:
Jan Bussell
Presenter/puppeteer:
Ann Hogarth
Presented by:
Alan Sleath

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