A Christian theme expounded by The Rev. Charles Davey assisted by Gwen Watford and A Quintet from the St. Martin Singers.
and Weather for Farmers
The magazine for those who live by the land.
Introduced by John Cherrington.
West Farm Visit
Rex Paterson, a Hampshire farmer, shows James Thorburn how he has divided his farm into 150-acre units with one man milking sixty-five cows single-handed.
The Combine
Francis Gammon demonstrates the preparation of a machine for harvest.
Filmed by the BBC's Agricultural Film Unit
From the Midlands
Detholiad o ffilmlau newyddion yn dangos peth o weithgarwch Cymru a'r Cymry yn ystod yr wythnos
Y telediad yng ngofal Adran y Newyddion
This week's news reviewed.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Awn a chi unwaith eto i faes yr Eisteddfod i gyfarfod & rhai o'r ymwelwyr ac i gael rhagor o ganu a dawnsio
Cyflwynir y rhaglen gan
Hywel Davies
Golygydd cerdd. Alwyn Jones
Y cynhyrchu gan DAVID J. THOMAS
Recordiad y BBC
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
A Western film series starring Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster the young cowboy adventurer who is also a student of the law.
Tom finds excitement and unexpected romance when he meets a band of gypsies.
[Starring] Jean Simmons and Victor Mature in the romantic comedy Affair with a Stranger
As a struggling playwright, Bill Blakeley has only one basic problem and this arises out of his need to eat. But later, as a married man with a theatrical hit on his hands, he finds that his real troubles are only just beginning.
A selection from the films shown in Monitor over the past two years.
In this edition:
Rudolf Bing at the Met
A portrait of an impresario filmed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
'You could sense immediately the quality of the man who regards opera singers as spoilt children, who fired Maria Callas, who bends a world-famous institution to his sole will'. (News Chronicle)
and
The Death of Tolstoy
An impression of Tolstoy's last days, compiled from Russian archive newsreel material filmed during his lifetime and at his funeral.
'It was an exciting experience to have this legendary genius, on the hearthrug'. (The Observer)
Programme edited and introduced by Huw Wheldon.
Another thrilling adventure with his band of black-hearted pirates and Stowaway Tom.
An animated cartoon written and drawn by John Ryan.
Storyteller, Peter Hawkins
A serial in six parts by C. E. Webber.
Film sequences by the BBC Children's Film Unit
Introduced by Peter Scott with Fred Lexster.
For at least seven hundred years the mute swan has been a royal and protected bird. But are swans increasing too fast? Peter Scott and Fred Lexster, keeper of the swannery at Abbotsbury, show films of swans breeding, fighting, and bringing up their charming cygnets.
Last shown in November, 1960
The Rev. W. W. Simpson shows some unusual maps, and different ways of looking at them.
(to 18.15)
A comment by Robert Robinson.
Does the Church get the Press it deserves?
[Starring] Gregory Ratoff as Abdullah the Great with Kay Kendall and Sydney Chaplin
A story of the powerful and ruthless King Abdullah and how his infatuation for a beautiful English model brought about his downfall.
Members of the public put questions to a team of distinguished experts.
The great minds are: Jimmy Edwards, Ted Ray, Bernard Braden, Richard Murdoch.
In the chair, McDonald Hobley
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
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Sister of Nehru, friend of Gandhi, first woman to be President of the United Nations, and now nearing retirement as India's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom talks to Ludovic Kennedy.
A talk by The Rev. Harold T. Cook.
From the Midlands
