Newyddion y Dydd ynghyd a Y Maes Chwarab rhaglen i son am Rygbi, Pel Droed. Bocsio, Nofio a chwaraeon eraill, ar fnlm ac yn y stiwdio
Y rhaglen yng ngofal Tudor Phillips
(Daily news, and a sports programme)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)

BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras cover three of this afternoon's principal races on the second day of the Christmas Meeting.

1.30 Christmas Handicap Hurdle over 3 miles

2.0 Kenton Handicap Steeple over 2 miles

2.30 Oatlands Handicap Steeple over 3 miles

Clive Graham identifies, the horses and riders in the Paddock before each race.

(All transmitters)

For the Very Young
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
(BBC film)

The story of an emigrant journey to Australia.

From the BBC's Midland television studio
See page 28

(See panel below)

A second showing of the world-wide report on Scientific Research "What is Life?"
The scientist looks at the living cell and the mysteries of the origins of life on earth.

Professor Michael Swann and Raymond Baxter introduce contributions from:
Europe
Dr. S. Brenner and Robert Horne, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Professor F.G. Young, F.R.S., Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
Professor L.S. Penrose, The Galton Laboratory, University College, London
Dr. M. Mitchison, Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh
Dr. M. Grunberg-Manaco, Inst. de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris

United States of America:
Dr. M. Meselson, California Institute of Technology
Dr. David E. Green, Inst. of Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin
Dr. Harold C. Urey, University of California, La Jolla
Dr. Melvin Calvin, University of California, Berkeley

(American film sequences directed by Derek Burrell-Davis and made in co-operation with the United States Information Services)

U.S.S.R.:
Academician A.I. Oparin, A.N. Back Institute of Biochemistry
(Filming arranged for the BBC by Moscow Radio)

(A BBC recording of the programme first shown on December 1)

Introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme.
Today's sporting headlines and all the results.
Football, Rugby, Racing
Presented by the Sportsview Unit

A Russian cartoon film based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.

On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20

The exciting adventures of the famous Western Stagecoach Service.
[Starring] Dale Robertson

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Polly Elwes and Cy Grant.

Eamonn Andrews says This is Your Life to ?
(BBC recording)
('This Is Your Life' was devised by Ralph Edwards)

A series of crime stories in two weekly parts by Michael Gilbert.
[Starring] John Welsh with William Fox
(Story based on the book "Men in the Shadows" by Stanley Firmin, with research by Maurice Cowan)

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 are introduced by Lord Boothby, K.B.E.
An NBC Documentary
Tomorrow: 'The Thirties'

Outside Broadcast cameras join members of the National Sporting Club at one of their regular boxing tournaments held in their headquarters at the Cafe Royal.

Cruiserweight Contest: Eight rounds at 12 stone 8 lbs.
Alan Peacock (Hull) v. Gordon Cobbett (Birmingham)

Welterweight Contest: Eight rounds at 10 stone 8 lbs.
Brian Husband (Hull) v. Ron Warnes (Erith)

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for the BBC Inter-Regional Dancing Contest
(Organised by Mecca Dancing)
Peter West introduces the fifth heat in the nation-wide amateur ballroom dancing contest between twelve regions for the BBC Television Award and Formation Team Cup

South from the Guildhall, Portsmouth with Denny Boyce and his Orchestra
v.
North London from the Lyceum, Strand, with Lou Preager and his Orchestra
*
Before a panel of judges nominated by members of the Official Board of Ballroom Dancing Ltd. including the Welsh Alliance