The Opening Ceremonies from the Assembly Hall, Edinburgh.
Including:
The Constitution of Assembly and Installation of the new Moderator by the Rt. Rev. John Fraser, M.B.E., T.D., D.D.
The Address by H.M. The Queen's Lord High Commissioner, The Earl of Wemyss
The Reply by the R. H. W Shepherd D.D, D.Litt., The Moderator
Third day's play at Cardiff Arms Park.
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 13.45)
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. 5 from London
Judged by: Charles Creed, Alison Settle, Doris Gladney
With Doreen Stephens, Editor, Women's Programmes in the chair
Introduced by John Witty.
4.15 Tell Me, Doctor
Dr. Winifred de Kok discusses viewers' letters.
Letters should be lent to Dr. Winifred Kok, [address removed]
4.25 Dress Sense Competition South East Regional Result
The story on film of the building of the M.V. Tynewood, from the laying of the keel to the launching and trials as a complete vessel.
(Previously shown on August 1, 1958)
Ion Trant shows you some of the activities and work on his farm in Mid-Wales during the month of May.
Adapted from the book by Johanna Spyri and produced for television in six parts by Joy Harington.
[Starring] Mark Dignam as Grandfather
Introducing Sara O'Connor
(See page 4)
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20
Alistair McHarg requests The Pleasure of Your Company
with Sheila Nicolson and Arthur Blake and his Music
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport-Music-People
Cinema-Theatre-Argument
This week, Noel Harrison
Cricket: close of play scores
A weekly school report.
Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
[Starring] Professor Jimmy Edwards
with Arthur Howard
A fabulous coloured company from South Africa making a return appearance on BBC Television by popular demand.
Raymond Baxter reports.
Scientists of the Freshwater Biological Association are investigating life beneath the surface of Windermere. Since the ice melted 12,000 years ago, the fish in the lake and the animals and plants they eat have been gradually changing. Outside Broadcast cameras at Windermere show how research workers in a laboratory on the shore are trying to find out how the millions of fish live together in a world of their own.
(See panel)
by Georg Buchner
Translated and adapted by James Maxwell
[Starring] Patrick Wymark, Harold Lang
Danton's Death was originally staged by the 59 Theatre Company at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith, under the direction of Casper Wrede
The action of the play takes place in 1794 in Paris during the Reign of Terror.
(BBC recording)
(Avril Elgar is appearing in 'Farewell, Farewell Eugene' at the New Theatre, Hull; John Turner appears by arrangement with Ealing M.G.M. Artists Ltd.; June Bailey, Robert Bernal, Anita Giorgi, Dilys Hamlett, Harald Jensen, Harold Lang, Fulton MacKay, Helen Montague, Peter Sallis, Roy Spence, and Patrick Wymark are appearing in the 59 Theatre Company's production of 'Brand' at the Lyric Opera House, Hammersmith)
With Kay Cavendish.
An interlude of piano and song.
(BBC recording)
