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Douglas Craig, with illustrations taken from Benjamin Britten's opera The Little Sweep, shows how the music governs most of what we see in opera, from the acting to the setting.
Also taking part:
Members of the choirs of Ealing Grammar School for Boys and Notting Hill and Ealing High Schools for Girls
Conducted by Kenneth Alwyn
for Schools
(to 11.55)

Contributors

[Choirs] conducted by:
Kenneth Alwyn
Director:
Peter Dunkley
Producer:
John Hosier

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

When threatened by disease, the body mobilises its defences. It may be assisted in this, particularly in the case of the virus diseases, by the technique of immunisation. A notable example of this is smallpox.
Introduced by Professor W. T. Williams.
with Frank Sieman, Hilary Mason, Una Trimming, Harvey Clark, Margaret Stallard and Jacqueline Blackmore
for Schools

Contributors

Presenter:
Professor W. T. Williams
Script:
Bernard Davies
Designer:
Stuart Walker
Producer:
John Braybon
[Actor]:
Frank Sieman
[Actress]:
Hilary Mason
[Actress]:
Una Trimming
[Actor]:
Harvey Clark
[Actress]:
Margaret Stallard
[Actress]:
Jacqueline Blackmore

Barry Bucknell's weekly do-it-yourself television guide to new ways of improving and modernising a house.
The old house has been surveyed for improvement and conversion, the Local Authority has been given details for examination, and work is now beginning on the upstairs kitchen.
Barry Bucknell makes a serving-hatch between kitchen and dining-room, and makes and fits wall cupboards with sloping fronts and sliding doors.

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Bucknell
Producer:
Stanley Hyland

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

Contributors

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

Written by Sid Green and Dick Hills.
Second showings of the most popular editions of Citizen James.
This week: The Pensioner
Starring Sidney James
with Sydney Tafler
featuring Patrick Cargill, Hugh Lloyd, Sidney Vivian, Michael Stainton, Ronnie Brody, Louis Mansi, Stan Simmons, John Bramley

Contributors

Writer:
Sid Green
Writer:
Dick Hills
Incidental music:
Gordon Franks
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Director:
John Street
Producer:
Duncan Wood
Sid James:
Sidney James
Charlie Davenport:
Sydney Tafler
[Actor]:
Patrick Cargill
[Actor]:
Hugh Lloyd
[Actor]:
Sidney Vivian
[Actor]:
Michael Stainton
[Actor]:
Ronnie Brody
[Actor]:
Louis Mansi
[Actor]:
Stan Simmons
[Actor]:
John Bramley

A film biography of one of the world's most successful and best-loved comedians.
By Hope: I decided to quit boxing. I wasn't making hospital expenses.
About Hope: He tries to do much more than the twenty-four hours a day allow.
In Hope: I'll never consider anything I do in show business work, as long as you laugh. When you stop laughing then it will be work.
With Hope: How can this be a battle of wits and I'm losing.
Against Hope: We've had a perfect relationship for show business. I've only been fired seven times.
See page 35

Contributors

Subject:
Bob Hope

Stock Car Racing: The British Championship for Formula II Stock Cars
Televised direct from the New Cross Stadium, London
The winner will also receive the Festival Trophy.

Racing: The Derby
A preview of Britain's top classic.

Cricket: England v. Pakistan
Brian Johnston discusses the prospects for the First Test beginning tomorrow at Edgbaston.

Football
News from Chile on the eve of England's first World Cup match.

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Dimmock
Commentator (Stock Car Racing):
Alan Weeks
Presented by (Stock Car Racing):
A. P. Wilkinson
Item presenter (Cricket):
Brian Johnston
Programme edited by:
Ronnie Noble
Programme edited by:
Leslie Kettley
Presented by:
Alec Weeks

A Challenge to Invention
Astonishing film of the extraordinary devices and contraptions made by a secret Admiralty department during the war.
Some didn't work; Some blew up
Some did what was intended: they helped to win the war
From the West

Contributors

Narration written and spoken by:
Rene Cutforth
Producer:
Peter Bale

A critical survey of books and writers.
including
The Novels of Jack Jones discussed by Jack Jones, Peter Duval Smith.

10.0-10.30 View of South and West
(Rowridge, Brighton)

10.0-10.30 Scan: life in East Anglia.

(Manningtree)

Contributors

Panellist (The Novels of Jack Jones):
Jack Jones
Panellist (The Novels of Jack Jones):
Peter Duval Smith
Producer:
Christopher Burstall

Poland's film entry for the 1961 Italia Prize takes a look at a busy maternity hospital.
It shows with imaginative insight the mothers' anticipation, the fathers' anxiety, and finally the joy of the parents as they leave the hospital with the new member of the family.

BBC Television

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