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Most of the money that we spend on fuel for an open fire is wasted. So we seek new designs that will enable us to get greater value for our money as well as giving us increased comfort.
Introduced by Hugh David with Freda Manners, Bruce Wightman.
(to 11.45)

Contributors

Presenter:
Hugh David
Illustrator:
Alfred Wurmser
Producer:
Donald Grattan
[Actress]:
Freda Manners
[Actor]:
Bruce Wightman

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.

An account of the way of life which the Romans brought with them to Britain in A.D. 43.
Also taking part: Norman Cook, Curator of the Guildhall Museum

Contributors

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

A film series about people and animals from all over the world.
In this edition you can see a baboon with cobalt blue stripes, and a baby elephant. Also a film of the Walmer lifeboat which goes to the rescue of ships that founder on the treacherous Goodwin Sands.

Contributors

Commentator:
John Arlott
Commentator:
Barbara Mullen
Commentator:
Robert Beatty

by Sir Walter Scott.
Adapted for television in six parts by E. J. Bell.
with Tom Fleming as Redgauntlet and John Cairney as Alan Fairford

Contributors

Author:
Sir Walter Scott
Adapted by:
E. J. Bell
Producer:
Kevin Sheldon
Designer:
Fanny Taylor
Film cameraman:
Leonard Newson
Film editor:
Ron de Mattos
Music composed and conducted by:
Lawrence Leonard
Joshua Geddes:
James Copeland
Rachel Geddes:
Mavis Main
Darsie Latimer:
Donald Douglas
John Davies:
Eric Woodburn
Christal Nixon:
Terry Baker
Redgauntlet:
Tom Fleming
Alan Fairford:
John Cairney
Peter Peebles:
Bryden Murdoch
Mr Fairford:
Leonard Maguire
A Lawyer:
John Graham
Mr Tough:
Jack Stewart
Mr Crossbite:
John Dunbar

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Polly Elwes and Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor.

Contributors

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

by Robert Barr.
A series of dramatised documentaries about the Metropolitan Police District.
Fear - intimidation - protection! When the smaller crooks step out of line there is 'rough justice' on the manor - and no witnesses will come forward. This is a story of the 'protection' racket.

Contributors

Writer:
Robert Barr
Producer:
David E. Rose
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Film sequences - Cameraman:
A. A. Englander, F.R.P.S
Film sequences - Editor:
Barbara Parker

Jack Payne brings you Words and Music and conducts the Concert Orchestra (Leader, Alec Firman)
Artists appearing are: Eric Delaney, Bryan Johnson, Jo Shelton, Sergio Franchi,
Flora Caprino, June Marlow and The George Mitchell Singers.

Contributors

Presenter/Conductor:
Jack Payne
Musicians:
The Concert Orchestra
[Orchestra] leader:
Alec Firman
Drummer:
Eric Delaney
Singer:
Bryan Johnson
Singer:
Jo Shelton
Singer:
Sergio Franchi
Singer:
Flora Caprino
Singer:
June Marlow
Singers:
The George Mitchell Singers
Settings:
Cephas Howard
Director:
Travers Thorneloe
Producer:
John Street

Five programmes on the origin of a human being.

The focus of much modern research is on the narrow barrier of tissue through which pass all the substances needed by the developing human being.
Speakers taking part: Professor J. D. Boyd, Professor F. W. Brambell, F.B.S.,
Professor A. Jost, Professor P. B. Medawar, C.B.E., F.R.S.
Introduced by David Lutyens.

Contributors

Speaker:
Professor J. D. Boyd
Speaker:
Professor F. W. Brambell
Speaker:
Professor A. Jost
Speaker:
Professor P. B. Medawar
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 last edition of the present series:
Scenes from:
'Inherit the Wind' starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March and Gene Kelly
'The Apartment' starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred MacMurray
'The Gazebo' starring Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds
Doctor in Love' starring Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell and James Robertson Justice
Robert Robinson talks to Alfred Hitchcock
Roving reporter, Keith Fordyce visits John Gregson at home.
Films by courtesy of United Artists, M.G.M., and Rank

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Interviewee:
Alfred Hitchcock
Reporter:
Keith Fordyce
Interviewee:
John Gregson
Producer:
Richard Evans
Editor:
Christopher Doll

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