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A group of five programmes showing the relationship between rocks, soil, plants, and typical animals of five very different districts in Britain.

Introduced by Eric Simms with John Sankey, Warden of Juniper Hall Field Study Centre.
(BBC film, first shown on June 22)
(to 11.45)

Contributors

Presenter:
Eric Simms
Guest:
John Sankey
Producer:
F. R. Elwell

Written and produced by Shaun Sutton
A serial in eight episodes
(Recording of the broadcast previously shown last year)

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Shaun Sutton
Film Cameraman:
Leonard Newson
Film Editor:
Valerie Best
Designer:
Eileen Diss
Roger Penlynden:
Michael Anderson
Master Allan:
John Woodnutt
Toby:
Frazer Hines
Don Jose:
Roger Delgado
Rumbell:
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Ralph:
Colin Douglas
Bartholomew:
Nigel Arkwright
Mary Brandon:
Jane Asher
John Brandon:
Michael Brennan
Fidian:
Patrick Cargill
First Trooper:
Alan Browning
Second Trooper:
Ivor Salter
Queen Elizabeth I:
Peggy Thorpe-Bates
Lord Burleigh:
John Welsh
Sir Francis Walsingham:
Douglas Dempster
Lord Leicester:
Joseph Wise
Sir Thomas Wycherly:
Barry Letts
Lord Bretherton:
Desmond Llewelyn
Sir Edmund Garrick:
Anthony Parker
Sir Arthur St John:
Alec Bregonzi
Barl Hawkeden:
John Geden
O'Keefe:
Bruce Stewart
Andrews:
Glyn Jones
Man in Cave:
Paul Craig
Don Alonzo:
Patrick Troughton
Others taking part:
Scot Finch
Others taking part:
Neville Barber

Written by Austin Melford.
[Starring] Alexander Gauge

Contributors

Writer:
Austin Melford
Theme music composed by:
Trevor H Stanford
Settings:
Norman James
Producer:
Ronald Marsh
Brig. Garnet Wellington-Bull:
Alexander Gauge
Jane his daughter:
Valerie Singleton
Capt 'Sooty' Pilkington:
Donald Hewlett
Fred, a Soho type:
Carl Bernard
Coffee bar assistant:
Miriam Karlin
Harry, another Soho type:
Paul Eddington
Showgirl:
Mela White
Plain clothes policeman:
Frank Leighton
Club chairman:
Erik Chitty

This week: Charlie Chester invites you to take Pot Luck
An excerpt from George and Alfred Black's presentation at the Winter Gardens Pavilion, Blackpool.
With The Hedley Ward Trio, Marian Miller, The Three Ghezzis, Mirko de Yorke and his Puppets, Eric ('Jeeves') Grier, The Twelve Joan Davis Dancers.
A special performance before an invited audience direct from the Winter Gardens Pavilion, Blackpool, by arrangement with the Blackpool Tower Company Ltd.

Contributors

Presenter/comedian:
Charlie Chester
Group:
The Hedley Ward Trio
Singer:
Marian Miller
Clowns:
The Three Ghezzis
Puppeteer:
Mirko de Yorke
Comedian:
Eric ('Jeeves') Grier
Dancers:
The Twelve Joan Davis Dancers
Orchestra directed by:
Frank Davison
Dance direction:
Joan Davis
Producer:
Albert J. Knight
Presented for television by:
John Ammonds

In tonight's recording Perry Como welcomes Guest stars with The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra, The Ray Charles Singers, The Louis Da Pron Dancers.
Written by Goodman Ace, Morton Green and George Foster and Jay Burton.

Contributors

Presenter/singer:
Perry Como
Musicians:
The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra
Singers:
The Ray Charles Singers
Dancers:
The Louis Da Pron Dancers
Producer for NBC:
Clark Jones
Writer:
Goodman Ace
Writer:
Morton Green
Writer:
George Foster
Writer:
Jay Burton
Film editor:
Sheila S. Tomlinson
Edited for BBC Television by:
Philip Barker

A series of wild-life programmes introduced by Peter Scott.

The West Indian Island of Tobago is a paradise on which to film wild birds. In this, the first of a new series of programmes, Peter Scott introduces Iris and Rupert Darnton, who have recently returned from Tobago, and shows some films which they made while they were there of Hangnests, Pelicans, Humming Birds, and other wild creatures.
(See page 5)

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Scott
Guest/Filmmaker:
Iris Darnton
Guest/Filmmaker:
Rupert Darnton
Editor:
John Merritt
Producer:
Nicholas Crocker

by Anthony Trollope
Adapted in six parts by Marjorie Deans

Mayfair in the 1860s was rich in titles and in gossip, and a beautiful young widow with an heirloom necklace quickly became the centre of intrigue and scandal.

(David McCallum appears by permission of The Rank Organisation)
Marjorie Deans writes on page 3

Contributors

Author:
Anthony Trollope
Adapted by:
Marjorie Deans
Producer:
Naomi Capon
Designer:
John Cooper
Duke of Omnium:
Kynaston Reeves
Lady Glencora:
Jessica Dunning
The Rev. Joseph Emilius:
Edgar Wreford
Lord Fawn:
Robert Eddison
Lady (Lizzie) Eustace:
Wendy Williams
The Duke's butler:
George McGrath
Robert, the Duke's footman:
David Ludman
Julia Macnulty:
Rosamund Greenwood
James, Lizzie's footman:
Roger Ostime
Frank Greystock:
David McCallum
Lady Linlithgow:
Marda Vanne
Mr. Camperdown the lawyer:
William Mervyn
John Eustace:
Graham Crowden
Jenkins, Mr. Camperdown's clerk:
Jack Smethurst
Lady Fawn:
Jean Cadell
Lucy Morris:
Perlita Neilson
Alice, parlourmaid at Fawn Court:
Joyce Carpenter
Augusta Fawn:
Carol Marsh
Nina Fawn:
Angela Crow
Georgina Fawn:
Pamela Binns
Lydia Fawn:
Angela Sefton

The week's business in Parliament is over. Tonight two M.P.s face a group of their constituents in the BBC's Television Studios in London.
Richard Reader Harris, M.P. Member (Conservative) for Heston and Isleworth and Arthur Skeffington, M.P., Member (Labour) for Hayes and Harlington.
In the chair, Robert Carvel, who calls for questions from the floor.

Contributors

Panellist:
Richard Reader Harris
Panellist:
Arthur Skeffington
Chairman:
Robert Carvel
Presented by:
Stanley Hyland

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