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Ion Trant introduces you to some of the three hundred lambs that have been born on his farm this year. He shows how busy the tractor has been ploughing and harrowing the fields to prepare for the spring sowing, and how the scientist can help the farmer with his soil.
From the BBC's Midland studio

Contributors

Presenter:
Ion Trant
Director:
John Davies

A serial in six episodes by Eric Allen.
See Junior Radio Times

Contributors

Writer:
Eric Allen
Film Cameraman:
Bill Munn
Film Editor:
Norman Carr
Accordionist:
Henry Krein
Designer:
Richard Wilmot
Producer:
Barbara Hammond
Susan Harper:
Hilary Wyce
Dennis Harper:
Jonathan Bergman
Kapia:
David Grey
Mr Ash:
Eric Dodson
General Upperton:
Maurice Colbourne
Anna Merrell:
Joan Hart
Henri, hotel clerk:
Emrys James
Hotel manager:
Anthony Jacobs
Madame Blitskaya:
Nicolette Bernard
Perichon, hotel detective:
Michael Hitchman

From the marine research vessel Xarifa, you are taken on a dive to the sea-bed in order to learn about the homes and habitats in which fish choose to live.
The series directed by Hans Hass and produced by Tony Soper

Contributors

Diver/Film cameraman/Director:
Hans Hass
Film editor:
Paul Khan
Producer:
Tony Soper

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

Contributors

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

Written by Robert Barr.
A series of dramatised documentaries about the Metropolitan Police.
A uniformed police constable is a symbol of authority but he is also a man. Tonight's programme is about the man and his work, and the organisation behind him.

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Barr
Producer:
David E. Rose
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Film sequences - Cameraman:
Hugh Wilson
Film sequences - Editor:
Larry Toft

Jack Payne brings you Words and Music
and conducts the Concert Orchestra (leader, Alec Firman)
Artists appearing are: Rawicz and Landauer, Bruce Trent, Marion Studholme, Richard Allan, The George Mitchell Singers
From the Royal Ballet School: Christine Hutchinson, Stella Orton, Rozanne Ward, Gillian Thomas
Leslie Baily says "There's a Song About It"
Guest appearance of Jack Hylton
(See "Round and About")

Contributors

Presenter/conductor:
Jack Payne
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
[Orchestra] leader:
Alec Firman
Pianists:
Rawicz and Landauer
Singer:
Bruce Trent
Soprano:
Marion Studholme
Dancer:
Richard Allan
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Dancer:
Christine Hutchinson
Dancer:
Stella Orton
Dancer:
Rozanne Ward
Dancer:
Gillian Thomas
Item presenter (There's a Song About It):
Leslie Baily
Guest appearance:
Jack Hylton
Designer:
Cephas Howard
Producer:
John Street

In Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, a young African, Victor Kimeseru, is receiving a Western education. His home is 1,000 miles away in the heart of Tanganyika. He is of the Masai tribe who are aristocratic, brave, and closely-knit. Victor says that he will never return to tribal life and tribal dress. He has lost one world. What does the other hold?

Contributors

Subject:
Victor Kimeseru
Cameraman:
Ken Westbury
Sound recordist:
Maurice Everitt
Film editor:
Leonard Trumm
Additional music composed by:
Thomas Henderson
Devised and produced by:
Denis Mitchell

A series on the current work of Fellows of the Royal Society.
With Dr. C.H. Andrewes, F.R.S.
Last year fifty times more working days were lost due to the common cold than to industrial strikes. After thirteen years of intensive research, scientists led by Dr. Andrewes have recently isolated some of the viruses responsible.
Outside broadcast cameras visit the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill to report their progress on research into the 'flu and common cold viruses.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Dr. C. H. Andrewes
Interviewer:
Raymond Baxter
Script:
Gordon Rattray Taylor
Producer/series editor:
Philip Daly
Producer:
Gerald Leach

A programme about the latest films, the stars who appear in them, the people who make them.
In this edition -
Scenes from:
'The League of Gentlemen' starring Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick and Richard Attenborough
'Toby Tyler' with Kevin Coreoran
'Hell is a City' with Stanley Baker
'Peeping Tom' with Carl Boehm and Moira Shearer
and An interview with Moira Shearer
Robert Robinson talks to Stanley Donen, director of such films as 'Singing in the Rain', 'On the Town' and 'Seven Brides for Seven Brothers'.
Roving Reporter, Keith Fordyce
Film by courtesy of Rank, Disney, Warner-Pathe, and Anglo-Amalgamated

Contributors

Interviewee:
Moira Shearer
Interviewer:
Robert Robinson
Interviewee:
Stanley Donen
Roving reporter:
Keith Fordyce
Producer:
Richard Evans
Editor:
Christopher Doll

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