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A discussion, with film, of the work of the Geriatric Unit at Cowley Road Hospital, Oxford; with emphasis on the importance of the Day Hospital in helping old people back to normal life.
Interviewer, Donald Holms
Programme introduced by Elaine Grand.

and
Home-Maker Competition
Doreen Stephens, Editor of Women's Programmes, Television, and John Hobday report on the progress of the competition.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Donald Holms
Presenter:
Elaine Grand
Producer:
Beryl Radley
Reporter (Home-Maker Competition):
Doreen Stephens
Reporter (Home-Maker Competition):
John Hobday

Opened by Eamonn Andrews 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 Dancing Heiress
by Vere Lorrimer.
Where you can try your hand at being a detective.

Contributors

Presenter:
Eamonn Andrews
Presenter/artist:
Tony Hart
Producer:
Rosamund Davies
Writer (The Six-Clue Challenge):
Vere Lorrimer
Det Insp Bruce:
Ivan Owen
Humphrey Fielding:
John Gare Pitt

A series starring Janie Marden who introduces The Raindrops (Jackie, Len, Vince, and Brian), The Harry Hayward Quartet (Harry, Dennis, Ken, and Harry).
and
A British Cotton Design Competition
In which viewers are given a preview of next Springs fashions and are invited to send in their own designs.
This week's judge: Edna Glyn
This week's preview: Party Frocks
From the North of England

Contributors

Presenter/singer:
Janie Marden
Singers:
The Raindrops
Musicians:
The Harry Hayward Quartet
Judge (A British Cotton Design Competition):
Edna Glyn
Producer:
Stan Parkinson

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings with Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Singer:
Robin Hall
Singer/guitarist:
Jimmie Macgregor
Associate producer:
Antony Jay
Associate producer:
Gordon Watkins
Associate producer:
Tony Essex
Assistant editor:
Alasdair Milne
Editor:
Donald Baverstock

A general knowledge contest from Lincoln.
Second round
The Residents - Olive Stephens, Edward Moult, Reginald Webster
v.
The North - Margaret Heasman, Donald Boydell, Kenneth Thornton
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann

See page 44

Contributors

Panellist (The Residents):
Olive Stephens
Panellist (The Residents):
Edward Moult
Panellist (The Residents):
Reginald Webster
Panellist (The North):
Margaret Heasman
Panellist (The North):
Donald Boydell
Panellist (The North):
Kenneth Thornton
Chairman:
Franklin Engelmann
Questions arranged and compiled by:
John P. Wynn
Presented by:
Kenneth Milne-Buckley

See top of page and page 45

For six hundred years no Archbishop of Canterbury has entered the Vatican for talks with the Pope. On the eve of this occasion BBC Television goes behind the walls of Vatican City to discover the attitudes of the Roman Catholic Church towards the problems now facing the Christian world

Filmed by Telecasts of Rome

Produced by Noble Wilson in collaboration with RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana

On the eve of the visit to the Vatican of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury
Robert McKenzie and Hywel Davies interview Monsignor Thomas Ryan, Former Private Secretary to the Pope, Cardinal Tardini, Cardinal Secretary of State, Cardinal Agagianian, Prelect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the faith

Contributors

Interviewer:
Robert McKenzie
Interviewer:
Hywel Davies
Interviewee:
Monsignor Thomas Ryan
Interviewee:
Cardinal Tardini
Interviweee:
Cardinal Agagianian
Producer:
Noble Wilson

A comedy by Molly Lefebure.
'Moppett' and 'Tiny' appear as two of the friends

Fred Plastow, a retired fishmonger, has expectations for himself and his family from the lodger, who is in poor health. Unfortunately for Fred, the lady has other friends.
From the West

Contributors

Writer:
Molly Lefebure
Producer:
Stephen Harrison
Designer:
Desmond Chinn
Fred Plastow:
Lloyd Pearson
Maggie Lea:
Joan Young
Bert Lemming:
Harry Locke
Ivy Lea:
Gretchen Franklin
Alf Croucher:
George Tovey
Charlie North:
Charles Lamb

A drama in two acts.
Words and music by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
Assistant conductor and Chorus-Master, Marcus Dods
1865; the village of Montalto, Calabria.
The Prologue: Tonio explains that the subject of the play to be performed later that night is a drama taken from real life.
Act 1: The Arrival of the Troupe
Intermezzo
Act 2: The Play

Contributors

Words and music:
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Musicians:
London Symphony Orchestra
Orchestra Leader:
Hugh Maguire
Orchestra Conductor:
Charles Mackerras
Assistant conductor and Chorus-Master:
Marcus Dods
Costumes supervised by:
Elizabeth Agombar
Make-up supervised by:
Elizabeth Blattner
Designer:
Clifford Hatts
Director:
Michael Leeston-Smith
Producer:
Vladek Sheybal
Nedda, an actress and wife of Canio (in the play, Columbine):
Elaine Malbin
Canio, head of the troupe of strolling players (in the play, Fagliaccio):
Robert Thomas
Tonio the Hunchback (in the play, Taddeo):
Bernard Turgeon
Beppo, an actor (in the play, Harlequin):
Kevin Miller
Silvio, a villager:
Peter Glossop
Villagers, monks, peasants, children:
null [uncredited]

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