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Family Affairs

Ready for Marriage?
Young people are physically ready for marriage before they are emotionally mature. Charles Davey, priest, psychotherapist, and editor of the Marriage Guidance Bulletin, discusses the problem and parents' attitudes to it.

Aids for the Disabled
Ethel Skinner, Staff Officer, demonstrates some of the aids recently exhibited at the National Headquarters of the British Red Cross Society in London.

Introduced by Gwen Farrow.

3.15 Cookery Club
Marguerite Patten introduces the winner of the competition for a dish with eggs as the main ingredient, and demonstrates her recipe.

(to 15.30)

Contributors

Item presenter (Ready for Marriage?):
Charles Davey
Item presenter (Aids for the Disabled):
Ethel Skinner
Presenter (Family Affairs):
Gwen Farrow
Producer (Family Affairs):
Beryl Radley
Cook/presenter (Cookery Club):
Marguerite Patten
Producer (Cookery Club):
Ann Shead

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

Contributors

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

Jack Payne brings you Words and Music and conducts the Concert Orchestra.
His many guests include: Virginia McKenna, Dickie Valentine, Campoli, Isabel Jeans, Tony Britton, Bill Travers, Doreen Hume, Armand and Anita, Salvatore Pantalone, Lucille Mapp, Anne de Nys, The George Mitchell Singers

(Virginia McKenna appears by permission of the Rank Organisation)
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Contributors

Presenter/Conductor:
Jack Payne
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
Guest:
Virginia McKenna
Singer:
Dickie Valentine
Violinist:
null Campoli
Guest:
Isabel Jeans
Guest:
Tony Britton
Guest:
Bill Travers
Soprano:
Doreen Hume
Guest:
Salvatore Pantalone
Singer:
Lucille Mapp
Guest:
Anne de Nys
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Designer:
Ted Southcott
Producer:
John Street

by John Prebble
(See panel on left)

A dramatised documentary illustrating how a popular Sunday newspaper handles a murder story, from the discovery of a girl's body in a wood to the arrest of a suspect.

Contributors

Writer:
John Prebble
Producer:
Gilchrist Calder
Designer:
Fanny Taylor
Film Cameraman:
Cyril Moorhead
Film Editor:
Leonard Trumm

It is illegal to terminate a pregnancy unless it is to save the life or health of the mother. Nevertheless, it is widely believed that this operation can be performed without harm to the body or mind of the woman concerned.
Taking part are:
A Consultant Psychiatrist, A Gynaecologist, A Forensic Pathologist

Contributors

Panellist:
A Consultant Psychiatrist [name uncredited]
Panellist:
A Gynaecologist [name uncredited]
Panellist:
A Forensic Pathologist [name uncredited]
Producer:
Hugh Burnett

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