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Introduced by a doctor.
In an age when many of the diseases that affect mankind are being controlled, or even eliminated, bacterial food poisoning has increased considerably.
This programme discusses the causes of food poisoning, and shows how, knowing the cause, we can help to control the disease by taking care in the handling, cooking, and storing of food.
( first shown on May 18)
(to 11.45)

Contributors

Presenter:
A doctor [name uncredited]
Animations:
Alfred Wurmser
Producer:
Geoffrey Hall

Brian Hope-Taylor introduces a series for younger children showing some of the ways in which Man has lived from the Old Stone Age to the time of the Romans.

The first of two broadcasts about Ancient Egypt.
Script by Leonard Cottrell who also appears in the programme.

Contributors

Presenter:
Brian Hope-Taylor
Script/guest:
Leonard Cottrell
Film editor:
Teddy Ireland
Producer:
Ivan Gilman

A Rubovian Legend by Gordon Murray.
Presented by the BBC Puppet Theatre

Contributors

Writer/director/puppets:
Gordon Murray
Puppeteers:
Audrey Atterbury
Puppeteers:
John Hardwick
Puppeteers:
Bob Bura
Voices:
Roy Skelton
Voices:
James Beattie
Voices:
Derek Nimmo
Voices:
Violet Lamb
Music:
Patrick Harvey
Settings and costumes:
Andrew Brownfoot

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

Contributors

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

Plays of village life by Bill Naughton and Allan Prior.
[Starring] Wilfred Pickles as 'Yorky' with Edna Morris
From the BBC's North of England television studio

Contributors

Writer:
Bill Naughton
Writer:
Allan Prior
Designer:
Paul Bernard
Producer:
John Warrington
Yorky:
Wilfred Pickles
Miss Horseman:
Margaret Diamond
Mrs Spring:
Pauline Letts
Mary Spring:
Frances Guthrie
Ruth:
Jill Tracey
Alice:
Edna Morris
Miss Sedgebeer:
Nan Braunton
Jack:
Arnold Ridley
Philip:
Robert Chetwyn
Helen:
Sheila Steafel

Written by Robert Barr.
A series of dramatised documentaries about the Metropolitan Police.
Experienced police officers know well the criminals who operate within their district. They know their methods, friends, peculiarities, and whereabouts. Tonight's programme shows how this knowledge is shared between officers of several divisions in order to stop a series of factory breakings.

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Barr
Producer:
David E. Rose
Designer:
Richard Henry
Film sequences - Cameraman:
Hugh Wilson
Film sequences - Editor:
Larry Toft
Director:
David Willmott

Jack Payne brings you Words and Music
and conducts the Concert Orchestra (leader, Alec Firman)
Artists appearing are: Adele Leigh, Sheila Buxton, Thomas Round, Ferry Kurucz, Eleanor Fazan with Johnny Greenland and Richard Garner, June Marlow, Peter Myers and Ronald Cass, The George Mitchell Singers.
Guest appearance of Eric Winstone

Contributors

Presenter/conductor:
Jack Payne
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
[Orchestra] leader:
Alec Firman
Soprano:
Adele Leigh
Singer:
Sheila Buxton
Cymbalist:
Ferry Kurucz
Dancer:
Eleanor Fazan
Dancer:
Johnny Greenland
Dancer:
Richard Garner
Singer:
June Marlow
Performer:
Peter Myers
Performer:
Ronald Cass
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Guest appearance:
Eric Winstone
Choreography:
Eleanor Fazan
Settings:
Cephas Howard
Producer:
John Street

A series on the current work of Fellows of the Royal Society.
With Dr. Wilder Penfield, O.M., F.R.S.
"The Roar of the Crowd' is how the continuous activity of the ten thousand million cells in the human brain has been described. At the Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada, Dr. Penfield and his colleagues study the brain in sickness and in health, to acquire new knowledge of its workings and to develop treatments for diseases such as epilepsy.
Technical facilities by Niagara Films Inc.

Contributors

Interviewee:
Dr. Wilder Penfield
Interviewer:
Lister Sinclair
Script:
Gordon Rattray Taylor
Producer:
Humphrey Fisher
Producer:
David Walker
Series edited by:
Philip Daly

A programme about the latest films, the stars who appear in them, the people who make them.
Introduced by Robert Robinson.
In this edition:
Scenes from:
"Black Orpheus" with Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello
"The Day They Robbed the Bank of England" starring Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars and Peter O'Toole
See Round and About
"The Challenge" with Jayne Mansfield
Robert Robinson talks to some of the stars and technicians who are filming "The Guns of Navarone" on location in Rhodes
(Films by courtesy of Warwick, M.G.M., and Rank)

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Film Editor:
Joe Sterling
Roving Reporter:
Keith Fordyce
Producer:
Richard Evans
Editor:
Christopher Doll

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