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2.35 The Cathcart Challenge Cup
A plate of 1,000 sovereigns over two miles and a few yards

3.15 The Cheltenham Gold Cup of 5,000 sovereigns added to a sweepstake over three miles, two furlongs, and 130 yards

3.50 Foxhunters Challenge Cup
A plate of 1,500 sovereigns four miles over the National Hunt Steeplechase Course

Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the paddock before each race.

Contributors

Commentator:
Peter O'Sullevan
Paddock commentator:
Clive Graham
Presented for television by:
Barrie Edgar

Child's-Eye View
How does the adult world look to child? Paul and Jean Ritter, who have five children of their own, show with models and pictures a small child's viewpoint.

Music Therapy
Joan Yorke talks with Reginald and Hebe Gibbs, pioneers of musical therapy in this country, and with a consultant psychiatrist, about its effects on patients in hospitals and mental homes.

Introduced by Vera McKechnie.

Contributors

Item presenter (Child's-Eye View):
Paul Ritter
Item presenter (Child's-Eye View):
Jean Ritter
Item presenter (Music Therapy):
Joan Yorke
Panellist (Music Therapy):
Reginald Gibbs
Panellist (Music Therapy):
Hebe Gibbs
Panellist (Music Therapy):
A consultant psychiatrist [name uncredited]
Presenter:
Vera McKechnie
Arranged by:
Anne-Marie Gardner-Stewart
Producer:
Beryl Radley

Written by Sydney Carter.
Adapted for television by Frank Baker.
Gary has told Mike of a quarrel he has overheard between Mary and Nicholas about certain letters. What letters? Mike is determined to know more.

Contributors

Author:
Sydney Carter
Adapted for television by:
Frank Baker
Producer:
Richard Gilbert
Mike Williams:
John Flint
Gary Jones:
Peter Furnell
Felix Scrutton:
Eric Holmes
Mrs Stagg:
Blanche Fothergill
Mrs Marlin:
Doris Hare
John Drake:
Brian Alexis
Mary Bewick:
Sonia Graham

Eamonn Andrews opens Playbox
with the assistance of Tony Hart.

The Inter-Regional Quiz Championship
This week's team: South-East England

The Six-Clue Challenge: The Case of the Lost Baronet
by Vere Lorrimer.
Where you can try your hand at being a detective.

Contributors

Presenter:
Eamonn Andrews
Presenter/artist:
Tony Hart
Producer:
Gerald Wiltshire
Writer (The Six-Clue Challenge):
Vere Lorrimer
Det-Insp Bruce:
Ivan Owen
Diana Layton:
Tarn Bassett
Sir Roger Thorne:
Anthony Pendrell

Introduced by Richard Todd.
Awards presented by Monty Berman, Chief Barker.
Show Business Personality: Harry Secombe
Best Stage Actor: Peter O'Toole
Best Stage Actress: Elizabeth Seal
Best Film Actor: Laurence Harvey
This award will be accepted on behalf of Laurence Harvey by Margaret Leighton.
Best Film Actress: Audrey Hepburn
This award will be accepted on behalf of Miss Hepburn by Peter Finch.
Most Promising Newcomer: Anthony Newley
Outstanding Television Personality:
BBC: Richard Dimbleby
ITV: Bruce Forsyth
An additional surprise Award will be given to a well-known Show Business figure who has been chosen for a unique contribution to the theatre.
An edited film of Tuesday's lunch at the Savoy Hotel.

Contributors

Presenter:
Richard Todd
Awards presenter:
Monty Berman
Award winner (Show Business Personality):
Harry Secombe
Award winner (Best Stage Actor):
Peter O'Toole
Award winner (Best Stage Actress):
Elizabeth Seal
Award winner (Best Film Actor):
Laurence Harvey
Award winner (Best Film Actress):
Audrey Hepburn
Award winner (Most Promising Newcomer):
Anthony Newley
Award winner (Outstanding Television Personality:
BBC): Richard Dimbleby
Award winner (Outstanding Television Personality:
ITV): Bruce Forsyth
Television presentation:
Alan Sleath

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
John Morgan
Reporter:
Polly Elwes
Singer/guitarist:
Alex McEwen
Associate producer:
Alasdair Milne
Associate producer:
Antony Jay
Associate producer:
Gordon Watkins
Editor:
Donald Baverstock

The biography of a shy young bachelor by Godfrey Harrison.
[Starring] George Cole, Isabel Dean, Colin Gordon

Contributors

Writer:
Godfrey Harrison
Designer:
John Cooper
Producer:
Graeme Muir
David Bliss:
George Cole
Anne Fellows:
Isabel Dean
Tony Fellows:
Colin Gordon
Mr Hood:
Gerald Case
Donald Hood:
Barry MacGregor
Jennifer Cartwright:
Priscilla Morgan
Psyche:
null 'Mady'
Psyche assisted by:
Percy Edwards

with BBC Outside Broadcast cameras for the public hearing of Get Ahead.
A competition organised by the News Chronicle which offers £7,500 in prize money.
Contestants who have come through the eliminating stages of the competition are 'On the Spot' to prove that they could make the best and most successful use of the top prize of £5,000, to 'Get Ahead'.
This week: Women aged 30 or over
The Judges: Sir Miles Thomas, Alderman Mrs. Pearl Hyde, Alan Birch
Chairman of the Judges, John Coope
Introduced by Peter West.
From the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale

Contributors

Judge:
Sir Miles Thomas
Judge:
Alderman Mrs. Pearl Hyde
Judge:
Alan Birch
Chairman of the Judges:
John Coope
Presenter:
Peter West
Television presentation:
Mary Evans

meets this evening to answer your questions.
The members this week are: Margaret Lane, Dr. J. Bronowski, James Fisher.
Chairman, Norman Fisher
Questions should be addressed to: 'The Brains Trust', [address removed]

Contributors

Panellist:
Margaret Lane
Panellist:
Dr. J. Bronowski
Panellist:
James Fisher
Chairman:
Norman Fisher
Producer:
Jack Ashley

Most of the big names in Show Business signed a book with that title and attended a luncheon today given in honour of His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh by the Grand Order of Water Rats.
After the luncheon the Duke was ceremonially installed as an honorary member and as a Companion Rat replied to speeches by King Rat Arthur Scott, Clarkson Rose, Tommy Trinder and Ted Ray.
BBC News cameras were there to film these ceremonies and some surprise items as well.

Contributors

Speaker/King Rat:
Arthur Scott
Speaker:
Clarkson Rose
Speaker:
Tommy Trinder
Speaker:
Ted Ray
The programme presented by:
Bill Northwood

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