Sledges and dug-out canoes may seem clumsy ways of carrying goods or of travelling, but in their own day they were great inventions. From the sledge grew the wheeled cart, leading in time to trains and motor cars, and from the dug-out canoe there grew in time the ocean liner.
Introduced by Arthur Garratt.
(Recording of the programme shown on April 22)
(to 11.45)
Bwrw golwg dros bynciau'r dydd mewn sgwrs a ffilm chyfle i gwrdd a rhai sy'n amlwg yn y newyddion.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.15)
by Charles Dickens
Adapted in eight parts by John Keir Cross
[Starring] Mervyn Johns and Peter Wyngarde
(BBC recording, first broadcast in 1957)
For the Very Young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(BBC film)
Dress Sense Competition: Regional Final No. 2 from Manchester
Judged by: Owen Hyde-Clarke, Ailsa Garland, Mary Parrish
With Doreen Stephens, Editor, Women's Programmes in the chair
Introduced by Phillip Dobson.
3.20 Report from Paris
From the studios of Radiodiffusion Television Francaise.
3.30 Dress Sense Competition: North Regional Result
(to 15.35)
Written and produced by Shaun Sutton.
A serial in four episodes.
Danny Blanchflower introduces Junior Sportsview
A fortnightly series presenting film reports and news from the world of sport.
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.
Fitting a waterproof luggage rack and other ideas for safety and comfort in the car.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Cy Grant
and Cricket: close of play scores
Written by Dave Freeman and Charlie Drake.
With Richard Waring, Betty Turner, Trevor Maskell, Dorothy Darke, Henry Longhurst, Michael Henry, Mark Singleton, Philip Holies, Ann Dmitri.
with BBC Outside Broadcast cameras for the public hearing of Get Ahead
A competition organised by the News Chronicle which offers £7,500 in prize money.
Four women who have come through the eliminating stages of the competition are 'On the Spot' to try for the special £1,000 prize, and for the chance to go into the final and compete for the top prize to 'Get Ahead'.
The Judges: Sir Miles Thomas, Barbara Wootton, J. Matthews
Chairman of Judges, John Coope
Introduced by Peter West.
From the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale, London
(Next Tuesday: The Final)
See page 5
Direct from the Exeter Show Ground at 8.30
Chipperfield's Circus
A guest-night presentation by Dick Chipperfield
Featuring Tommy Trinder
and introducing:
The Antony Trio and Reno - Thrills atop the sway pole
The Thoroughbred Race Horses - Presented by John Chipperfield
Bears' Playtime with 'Hubert' and Dickie Chipperfield, Jnr.
Team of Shire Carthorses with 'baby' Astrals
and Paulos with The Biasini Troupe
Aerial action and wizards a-wheel
Written by Duncan Ross.
1959 is the centenary year of the District Nursing Service. Up and down the country the 10,000 District Nurses care for the sick and ailing. This is a devoted service of which too little is known. Tonight you join one such nurse as she deals with the problems and emergencies of her daily round.
See page 7
A hundred years ago the railways were displacing the roads and the steam engine was driving out the stage-coach. Now the situation is reversed and railways here and in other countries are hard put to pay their way. Tonight Facts and Figures gives some of the reasons why.
Introduces Owen Brannigan, Bobby Watson
The Trio: Max Jaffa (violin), Reginald Kilbey (cello), Jack Byfield (piano)
The Linden Singers
Conductor, William Llewellyn
by George Taylor.
(BBC recording)
A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party.
A discussion between Jo Grimond, MP., Leader of the Liberal Party, Mark Bonham-Carter, M.P. and four prospective Liberal candidates:
Heather Harvey (Southend, West), Harry Hague (Blackpool, North), Ivan Spence (Finchley), Jeremy Thorpe (North Devon).
(Sound only)
(Recording of the broadcast in the Home Service at 9.15 p.m.)
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