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Edrych ar y byd a'i bethau Cwrdd a phobl
Ymweld a lleoedd
Ymdrin a phynciau yng nghwmni Owen Edwards
Rhaglen ddyddiol dan ofal Nan Davies, Ifor Rees, Jack Williams
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)

Introduced by Kenneth Horne.

How will our grandchildren think of us a hundred years from now? Will they envy us, condemn us, laugh at us, or just forget us?

Thinking aloud about the Sixties are people from different walks of life including Jane Gaskell, Noni Jabavu, Paul Jennings, Christopher Mayhew, M.P., Ruth Pitter, Marjorie Proops, Bernard Williams.

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Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Horne
Panellist:
Jane Gaskell
Panellist:
Noni Jabavu
Panellist:
Paul Jennings
Panellist:
Christopher Mayhew
Panellist:
Ruth Pitter
Panellist:
Marjorie Proops
Panellist:
Bernard Williams
Producer:
Monica Sims

A film series written and drawn by V. H. Drummond.
In today's story Little Laura finds a new friend-in a ditty-bag.
Last shown in November 1960

Contributors

Writer/artist:
V. H. Drummond
Narration:
Penelope Drummond
Music written and played by:
Madeleine Dring
Director:
Oliver Postgate

Introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme.

An all-action programme in which Joe and Douglas Robinson, the famous South African experts, both former holders of the World Professional Judo Championship, demonstrate one of the oldest sports.
In addition to their spectacular routine of judo and self-defence they will be instructing a group of young pupils in the basic skills of this ancient art.
Presented by the Sportsview Unit

Contributors

Presenter:
Kenneth Wolstenholme
Judo expert:
Joe Robinson
Judo expert:
Douglas Robinson
Production team:
Alec Weeks
Production team:
Lawrie Higgins
Programme edited by:
Ronnie Noble

Percy Thrower and Frederick Saunders, glasshouse foreman, Edgbaston Botanical Gardens, Birmingham, suggest some rather different - often unusual - plants to give December colour for the greenhouse, the conservatory, and even for the parlour windowsill.

From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
Frederick Saunders
Producer:
Paul Morby

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings and Cy Grant.

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Kenneth Allsop
Reporter:
Macdonald Hastings
Singer/Guitarist:
Cy Grant
Associate Producer:
Gordon Watkins
Associate Producer:
Tony Essex
Associate Producer:
Ned Sherrin
Associate Producer:
Peter Batty
Assistant Editor:
Antony Jay
Editor:
Alasdair Milne

Introduced by Peter Scott with Walter Flesher.
Hedgehogs, or urchins, are at once familiar and mysterious little creatures, and many country legends have been woven round them.
Film sequences by Christopher Mylne, Director Cameraman of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
From the West

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Scott
Guest:
Walter Flesher
Film sequences:
Christopher Mylne
Editor:
John Merritt
Producer:
Eileen Molony

A film series starring Richard Chamberlain as Dr. Kildare and Raymond Massey as Dr. Gillespie.

To have a husband seriously ill in hospital makes life difficult enough for his devoted wife and their young son; but how is she to face the future when Dr. Gillespie and Dr. Kildare tell her that his coma may last indefinitely?

Contributors

Dr. Kildare:
Richard Chamberlain
Dr. Gillespie:
Raymond Massey

Written by David Mercer
Starring Leslie Sands, Nigel Stock, Barry Foster and Hylda Baker

For Wilf, an engine-driver on the point of retirement, Socialism has always meant hard work and the hope of a more prosperous life for his children. But when his two grown-up sons come home to be with their dying mother, he realises that this ideal might not have been enough.

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Contributors

Writer:
David Mercer
Designer:
Frederick Knapman
Producer:
Don Taylor
Wilf:
Leslie Sands
Edgar:
Nigel Stock
Richard:
Barry Foster
Gillian:
Olive McFarland
Margaret:
Pauline Letts
Auntie Beatie:
Hylda Baker
Uncle George:
Beckett Bould
Auntie Bessie:
Jane Eccles
Janet:
Ellen McIntosh
Wilt's wife:
Rosemary Matthews
Man in buffet:
Frank Seton

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