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and Weather for Farmers
The magazine for those who live by the land.
Introduced by Professor M. McG. Cooper.

A film on the production of quality beef from single suckler herds on the hill land of the Border area.
Professor Cooper describes the traditional ways of tearing and marketing, looks at some modern variations on the old system, and he and Ben Cottis question farmers on their breed preferences.
BBC film

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor M. McG. Cooper
Interviewer:
Ben Coutts
Camera:
John Bird
Camera:
Michael Williams
Camera:
Dixon Notman
Sound:
Ron Hooper
Film editor:
Colin Moffat
Producer:
Gordon Mosley

Gwahoddwn chwi i ymuno & chynulleidfa eglwysi undebol y cylch mewn rhaglen. o ganu emynau o'r Tabernacl, Capel yr AnnibynwyT, Sgiwen
Arweinydd, Mansel Thomas
Organydd. Arwel Hughes Unawdydd. Philip Talfryn Cyflwynir yr emynau gan
Y Parch. M. R. Mainwaring Y telediad yng: ngofal
Gethyn Stoodley Thomas
Recordiad y BBC
A programme of community hymn-singing from Skewen.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)

[Starring] Adolphe Menjou, Gloria Swanson in the film comedy Father Takes a Wife with John Howard, Desi Arnaz

When father takes a wife and she is a celebrated but temperamental actress, it is the son who has to provide the sound and sensible advice that finally leads to domestic bliss.

Contributors

Director:
Jack Hively
Senior:
Adolphe Menjou
Leslie Collier:
Gloria Swanson
Junior:
John Howard
Carlos:
Desi Arnaz

A kaleidoscope from the world of books with Dick Taverne.
including
The Red Balloon and Trip in a Balloon by Albert Lamorisse with the Lamorisse family.

Contributors

Presenter:
Dick Taverne
Production unit:
Christopher Burstall
Production unit:
Iain Martin
Production unit:
Dennis Potter
Producer:
Stephen Hearst

The Story of a Secret Weapon
Written and produced in four parts by Rex Tucker
Starring William Russell
with Francis Matthews

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
Rex Tucker
Film Cameraman:
Leonard Newson
Film Editor:
Ron de Mattos
Designer:
Frederick Knapman
Mr Robert Fulton:
Reed de Rouen
Interpreter:
Michael Anthony
French Captain:
Jacques Cey
Captain Belwether:
William Russell
Lieutenant Lamb:
Francis Matthews
Captain of Hebe:
Garard Green
Lord Nelson:
Robert James

Hyn yw y
Bywyd Ymunwn mewni mytfyrdod a mawl dan arweinlad yr Athro Dafydd G. Davies
Cenir yr emynau gan Y Cantorion.
Cymreig Arweinydd, Arwe! Hughes Trefnwyd y rhagjen gan
Y Parchedig Glyn Parry-Jones
A Welsh meditation.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
(to 18.45)

by Maurice Edelman, M.P.
Television play by Anthony Steven
[Starring] Eric Portman, John Gregson, Marius Goring, Martita Hunt, Natasha Parry, Mervyn Johns, John Phillips

Laye-Parker, M.P., and Smith, a Lobby Correspondent, have reached Moscow in their search for Kuprin, a Soviet rocket expert whom they knew at Cambridge and whom they hope to persuade to return to England. Now Laye-Parker has been arrested by the M.V.D. on unspecified charges, and Smith, a reluctant partner in the enterprise, must carry on the search alone.
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Contributors

Author:
Maurice Edelman
Television play by:
Anthony Steven
Producer:
John Jacobs
Film Cameraman:
Hugh Wilson
Film Cameraman:
Fred Ford
Film Editor:
Roy Fry
Designer:
Barry Learoyd
Laye-Parker:
Marius Goring
M.V.D. Officer:
Charles Rea
Makarov:
Kenneth J. Warren
Photographer:
John Bramley
Zagornetz:
John Bennett
Trifonov:
John Phillips
Smith:
John Gregson
Hotel Clerk:
Alfred Hoffman
Holloway:
Mervyn Johns
Hotel manager:
Kevin Brennan
Hesketh-Payne:
Peter Sallis
Marfushka:
Beryl Measor
Vera:
Natasha Parry
Madame Kuprin:
Martita Hunt
Kuprin:
Eric Portman
Makarov's assistant:
Declan Mulholland
British Ambassador:
Maurice Hedley
Nina:
Ann Patrick
Mr Ashby:
Steve Regan
Ticket collector:
John Rutland
Tamara:
Ann Dimitri
Doctor:
Peter Elliott
Reception clerk:
Frank Sieman
Narrator:
Patrick Troughton

Members of the public put questions to a team of distinguished experts.

The great minds are: Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray, Bernard Braden, Frank Muir.
In the chair, McDonald Hobley
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Contributors

Panellist/from an idea by:
Jimmy Edwards
Panellist:
Ted Ray
Panellist:
Bernard Braden
Panellist:
Frank Muir
Chairman:
McDonald Hobley
Director:
Sydney Lotterby
Producer:
Edward Taylor

A television request show introduced by Anne Shelton and produced by Bryan Sears.
A series of programmes in which viewers choose the music and songs to be sung and played tonight by Anne Shelton and her guests, Stanley Black, John Hanson, The Springfields, Douglas Squires, Jean Muir, Anna Sharkey, The Beryl Stott Singers.
Viewers taking part in this programme are interviewed by Patrick Feeny.

Contributors

Singer/Presenter:
Anne Shelton
Producer:
Bryan Sears
Pianist:
Stanley Black
Singer:
John Hanson
Musicians:
The Springfields
Dancer/Choreographer:
Douglas Squires
Dancer:
Jean Muir
Dancer:
Anna Sharkey
Singers:
The Beryl Stott Singers
Interviewer:
Patrick Feeny
Musical Director:
Harry Rabinowitz
Orchestra leader:
Alec Firman
Film Editor:
Ken Cooper
Designer:
Cephas Howard

BBC Television

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More