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What do we expect from a good wall? Why do we build some walls with a cavity between the bricks?
Introduced by Hugh David with Betty Henderson, Peter Hughes, Frazer Hines.
(BBC recording)
Repeated tomorrow at 2.5 p.m.
(to 11.45)

Contributors

Presenter:
Hugh David
Illustrator:
Tony Hart
Producer:
Donald Grattan
[Actress]:
Betty Henderson
[Actor]:
Peter Hughes
[Actor]:
Frazer Hines

BBC Outside Broadcast units bring you the second day's play featuring the first round of the Ladies' Singles direct from the All England Lawn Tennis Club,
Wimbledon with commentary, news flashes and summaries by Dan Maskell, Peter West, Michael Henderson, David Coleman and Jack Kramer.

Contributors

Commentator:
Dan Maskell
Commentator:
Peter West
Commentator:
Michael Henderson
Presenter:
David Coleman
Summaries:
Jack Kramer
Television presentation:
Bryan Cowgill
Television presentation:
Douglas Fleming
Television presentation:
Bill Wright

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 times of the Romans.

A programme illustrating some of the many things which we owe to the Ancient Greeks, and especially to the citizens of Athens.

Contributors

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

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

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
(BBC recording)

Contributors

Writer:
Bill Naughton
Writer:
Allan Prior
Designer:
Paul Bernard
Producer:
John Warrington
Miss Horseman:
Margaret Diamond
Yorky:
Wilfred Pickles
Tommy Bennett:
Frank Shelley
Jack:
Arnold Ridley
Ben:
Jack Woolgar
Bobby Bennett:
Colin Spaull
Terry:
Barry MacGregor
Ruth:
Jill Tracey
Alice:
Edna Morris
Miss Sedgebeer:
Nan Braunton
Mr Potts:
Maurice Hedley

Written by Robert Barr.
A series of dramatised documentaries about the Metropolitan Police.

English Policemen never carry fire-arms. Criminals sometimes do, without realising that a gun can tell an expert as much as a finger-print.

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Barr
Producer:
David E. Rose
Designer:
Richard Henry
Film sequences - Cameraman:
Ronnie Shears
Film sequences - Editor:
Barbara Parker
Director:
Don Taylor

Jack Payne brings you Words and Music and conducts the Concert Orchestra (leader, Alec Firman)
Artists appearing are: David Hughes, Vicky Autier, Diane Dubarry, June Marlow, Peter Myers and Ronald Cass and The George Mitchell Singers.
Guest appearance of George Melachrino

Contributors

Presenter/Conductor:
Jack Payne
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
Orchestra leader:
Alec Firman
Singer:
David Hughes
Singer:
Vicky Autier
Singer:
Diane Dubarry
Singer:
June Marlow
Performer:
Peter Myers
Performer:
Ronald Cass
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Guest:
George Melachrino
Settings:
Cephas Howard
Director:
Travers Thorneloe
Producer:
John Street

Five programmes on the origin of a human being.
The most recent scientific research on the first hours of life and the two microscopic cells which are the beginnings of a new individual.
Speakers taking part: Professor P. Krohn, Dr. A. S. Parkes, F.R.S., Lord Rothschild, G.M., F.R.S.
Introduced by David Lutyens.

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor P. Krohn
Speaker:
Dr. A. S. Parkes
Speaker:
Lord Rothschild
Presenter:
David Lutyens
Director:
Brenda Horsfield
Producer:
James McCloy

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:
'The Savage Innocents' starring Anthony Quinn and Yoko Tani
'Sons and Lovers' starring Trevor Howard, Wendy Hiller and Dean Stockwell
An interview with the French actress Mylene Demongeot.
See Round and About

Behind the Scenes
Keith Fordyce visits Plymouth and talks to the manager of the Drake Cinema.

Films by courtesy of Rank and Twentieth Century-Fox

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Interviewee:
Mylene Demongeot
Item presenter (Behind the Scenes):
Keith Fordyce
Producer:
Richard Evans
Editor:
Christopher Doll

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