Direct from Switzerland

On this the Reformed Churches' Day of Prayer and Dedication, a Solemn Ceremony before the Calvin Statue, the international monument of the Reformation in Geneva, is being held to mark the 450th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin and the 400th of his founding the Academie de Geneve. The worshippers are the citizens of Geneva and delegates from the Reformed Churches throughout the world, led by the Moderator of the Venerable Company of Pastors of the National Protestant Church. The Praise is led by the Federation of Parish Choirs.

Preceded by a filmed introduction to the occasion by the Rev. Ronald Falconer, who also gives the commentary

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Newyddion am Gymru a Chymry.

(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield and Crystal Palace)

Drama gan D.T. Davies.
Y cyfarwyddo gan Dafydd Gruffydd
Y cymeriadau yn nhrefn ymddangos (Characters in order of appearance): [see below]
Cynllunydd, Alan Taylor

('Values', a play by D. T. Davies)

(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield and Crystal Palace)

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A weekly agricultural magazine for those who live by the land.
Introduced by John Cherrington.

The different kinds of aircraft and helicopters in agriculture show the growing importance of flying to the farmer. Agricultural aspects will be discussed by C.S. Smith, C.V. Dadd, A.R. Wannop, C.S. Little and N.D. Norman.

From the BBC's Midland television studio

Seven Days in Thirty Minutes
Recalling this week's outstanding events on film with personalities, reports and expert analysis from studios at home and abroad.
Introduced by Robert Dougall.

(See panel)

Direct from Lucerne, Switzerland
Outside broadcast cameras of the Swiss Television Service are at the ringside to cover the final stages of the 1959 championships

At 3.5 and 5.45

meets this afternoon to answer your questions.
The members this week are: Sir Colin Anderson, Arthur Mizener, Alan Bullock, Sir Iain Moncreiffe of Moncreiffe, Bt
Question-Master, Norman Fisher
Questions should be addressed to: The Brains Trust, [address removed]
(A sound recording can be heard in the Home Service on Tuesday at 4.0)

A French cartoon film in eight episodes about the adventures of a boy reporter.

Tintin has recovered the sceptre, stolen by Syldavian rebels. To return it to the King in time, he has borrowed an aeroplane. But, mistaking him for an enemy, Syldavian anti-aircraft guns have opened fire.

Harry Corbett and 'Sooty Mammoth Productions' present Sooty's Safari
with Sooty and Sweep.
A breath-taking serial in three weekly episodes.
Produced by Sooty assisted by Trevor Hill from the BBC's North of England studios
(Jungle sequences by courtesy of Chester Zoo)

by Charles Dickens.
Adapted by P.D. Cummins in thirteen parts.
(Helen Lindsay is in "Eighty in the Shade" at the Globe Theatre, London)

The story so far: Estella arrives in London and Pip meets her coach. Orlick has secretly followed her, and so learns Pip's address. In a tavern, he falls in with Compeyson - the man with the scar captured on the marshes. Compeyson employs Orlick to hunt down Abel Magwitch, the convict Pip helped - he knows that Magwitch has returned to England, although transported for life. Pip is wretched because Estella encourages Bentley Drummle. One evening, he has a strange visitor. It is Magwitch, who reveals himself as Pip's benefactor.

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Direct from Lucerne, Switzerland
Outside broadcast cameras of the Swiss Television Service are at the ringside to cover the final stages of the 1959 Championships.

From Urchfont Manor, Wiltshire where for the past few days a residential course has been discussing what we mean by words like Body, Mind, and Spirit.

Are the mind and spirit merely the result of bodily activity or have they an independent existence?; Do we need to have minds in order to be people?; Could machines be made to think?

Members of the course put their questions to:
Frank George, Ph.D., Lecturer in Psychology, Bristol University, The Rev. Edwin Robertson Study Secretary, United Bible Societies
Chairman, Paul Cherrington, Warden of Urchfont

Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton.
[Starring] Tony Hancock

Hancock, the nature lover, takes on bureaucracy in the fight to save the last oak tree in East Cheam-and finds that every man has his price.
Featuring Sidney James
with John Vere, Hugh Lloyd, Mario Fabrizi, Laurie Webb, Graham Leaman, Arthur Mullard
(Recording of the programme shown on March 13)

by John L. Balderston in collaboration with J.C. Squire.
[Starring] David Knight, Daphne Slater
with Mary Hinton, Walter Hudd

The play opens in a house in Berkeley Square on October 23, 1784.

(The plot suggested by Henry James's posthumous fragment, 'The Sense of the Past')
(Picture on page 5)

by Johann Strauss.
Act 2 of the Sadler's Wells production.
Libretto by C. Haffner and R. Genee after Meilhac and Halevy
Adapted and produced for television by Charles R. Rogers.
The Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master, David Tod Boyd)
The Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, John Ludlow)
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
The Sadler's Wells Opera Ballet
(Ballet Master, Philippe Perrottet)
Introduced by Christopher Hassall.
(Programme presented by arrangement with the Sadler's Wells Trust Ltd.)
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To a young Canadian girl, London means more than new sights, sounds, and customs-it provides the backcloth against which she will take the first steps in her new career as an actress.
A National Film Board of Canada production

A talk by the Rev. Alan Webster.
Followed by Weather and Close Down