Introduced by John Cherrington.
The Director of Bridgets' Experimental Husbandry Farm, W.D. Hay, describes the story of this farm and his experimental work.
(BBC recording)
Newyddion am Gymru a Chymry.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace only)
(Welcome)
gan Osian Ellis I April Cantelo, Delme Jones, Cantorion Shelley, Cerddorfa Gymreig y BBC
Osian Ellis welcomes you to a programme of music from Wales.
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
(BBC recording)
(All transmitters)
A special challenge match between the Webster family from Lancashire and the Carr family from North Wales.
The Websters: Reginald Webster, Maisie Webster, Finbar Webster
v.
The Carrs: Alan Carr, Jessie Carr, Anthony Carr
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
A film comedy.
[Starring] Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray
Successful songwriter Kay Kingsley finds that, as a cowboy's wife, life on a ranch way out West is not so simple, and certainly far from quiet. Particularly when you have the additional hazard of a ready-made family to contend with.
Starring Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko.
Roger Bond is a farmer's son but his life is closely linked with the sea, and his dreams are of tides and boats and fishing, and, above all, the spoils of the sea.
A BBC West Region film made in the Isles of Scilly
with Lenny the Lion and Terry Hall, Judy Horn, Ronnie Raymond.
(BBC recording)
Written and produced by Rex Tucker
A comedy in six parts
(Oliver Burt is in "The Complaisant Lover" at the Globe Theatre, London)
A film series about animals and people from all over the world.
Do you know what a Tarsier is? You can see one in this edition, as well as the work of a bird sanctuary off the coast of Wales and hear the story of a young thoroughbred race-horse.
An animated cartoon film.
(Film shown by arrangement with Halas and Batchelor Cartoon Films Ltd.)
(Previously shown on Dec. 25, 1958)
The work of the Missions to Seamen told through the story of a seaman whose voyages take him to Australia and back home in time for Christmas.
Commentary spoken by Jack Hawkins.
Film shown by arrangement with The Missions to Seamen
(Previously shown in August 1958)
from Wales.
Hywel Davies introduces seven hymns and carols sung by Helen Watts, Rowland Jones
and the Treorchy Male Choir
Chorus-Master, John H. Davies
with the BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conducted by Mansel Thomas
When Jesus was born at Bethlehem God Became Man
The Rev. Peter Hamilton considers the meaning of this statement, and what it has to tell us about ourselves.
[Starring] Eddie Fisher
with Bob Monkhouse, Yana
The Dancers
The George Mitchell Singers
(BBC recording)
See page 4
Television's most popular panel game with Isobel Barnett, Gilbert Harding, Polly Elwes, Cyril Fletcher.
Chairman, Eamonn Andrews
("What's My Line?" was devised by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman and is televised by arrangement with CBS and Maurice Winnick)
by N.C. Hunter
[starring] Edith Evans, Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison, Lewis Casson
with Margaret Tyzack, Jean Anderson, Cyril Raymond and George Pravda
The Lancasters, a wealthy couple with a daughter, meet with a car accident in a snow storm on Dartmoor just after Christmas, and are obliged to spend a few days in a small hotel with an odd assortment of residents...
N.C. Hunter writes on page 3
(BBC recording)
(Cyril Raymond is appearing in "Aunt Edwina" at the Fortune Theatre, London)
An NBC Documentary
During these last few days of 1959 the BBC is presenting - as a series on successive evenings - four television films which between them look back at the first sixty years of the twentieth century These programmes, two of them American and two of them British, are introduced by Lord Boothby K.B.E.
In the years before the First World War, Britain was in its Edwardian hey-day; a Liberal Government ruled at Westminster; the Navy ruled the waves, and the thrones of Europe were a family affair.
On the other side of the Atlantic, almost unnoticed, the United States was nearing the status of a world power. But as yet America was of no concern to the outside world and the outside world was of no concern to Americans. Life in the United States centred on family picnics, the new 'ice-cream parlors,' and the Sunday afternoon band concerts.... These were the last untroubled years of their history.
Richard Cawston writes on page 2
(Tomorrow: 'The Jazz Age')
As seen by great artists of the past.
Paintings shown by permission of The National Gallery of Scotland and the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum
Followed by Weather and Close Down
