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A look behind the scenes to see Douglas Craig, the producer, rehearsing parts of Benjamin Britten's opera The Little Sweep.
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
BBC recording
Previously shown on June 7
See also Thursday at 10.5 a.m.
(to 11.55)

Contributors

Presenter:
Douglas Craig
[Choirs] conducted by:
Kenneth Alwyn
Director:
Peter Scroggs
Producer:
John Hosier

A mid-week miscellany.
Introduced by David Jacobs.
and including
Bernard Cribbins talking to Richard Wattis
'Junia' with a scene from her new film and her mistress Barbara Woodhouse
and Music from The Folklanders.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Jacobs
Guest:
Bernard Cribbins
Interviewer:
Richard Wattis
Guest:
Barbara Woodhouse
Musicians:
The Folklanders
Producer:
Lorna Pegram
Production assistant:
Iris Furlong
Production assistant:
Sheila Innes

BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras cover three of this afternoon's principal races.

3.5 Queen Mary Stakes for two-year-old fillies over five furlongs

3.45 Royal Hunt Cup A handicap race for three-year-olds and upwards over the Royal Hunt Cup Course of one mile

4.20 Coronation Stakes for three-year-old fillies over the Old Mile
(to 16.25)

Contributors

Commentator:
Peter O'Sullevan
Commentator:
Clive Graham
Television presentation:
Dennis Monger

A magazine programme for railway enthusiasts.
This month's edition includes:
Byways in the Forest of Dean
A Day at Shrewsbury Station
and This month's guest, Oliver Velton
Introduced by Peter Cranmer.
From the Midlands
BBC recording

Contributors

Devised and filmed by:
John Adams
Devised and filmed by:
Patrick Whitehouse
Guest:
Oliver Velton
Presenter:
Peter Cranmer
Producer:
Peggy Bacon

Barry Bucknell's weekly television guide for amateur home improvers.

The dining-room and the drawing-room of the old house will be much improved by removing the dividing wall and fitting folding doors. The ceilings and cornices are crumbling and unsightly.

Removing a dividing wall (the folding doors will be made and fitted later)... Replacing a ceiling with plasterboard covered with ceiling tiles... Fitting new cornices
BBC recording

Contributors

Presenter:
Barry Bucknell
Producer:
Stanley Hyland

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings and 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
Editor:
Antony Jay

Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
stars Jimmy Edwards who reveals for a second time
The Face of Devotion
co-starring Alfred Marks
featuring June Whitfield and Victor Silvester
with Marianne Stone, Diane Elliott

Contributors

Writer:
Frank Muir
Writer:
Denis Norden
Incidental music:
Dennis Wilson
Orchestra conducted by:
Harry Rabinowitz
Designer:
Marilyn Taylor
Producer:
James Gilbert
Jim:
Jimmy Edwards
[Actor]:
Alfred Marks
Wife:
June Whitfield
[Actor]:
Victor Silvester
[Actress]:
Marianne Stone
[Actress]:
Diane Elliott

A new series of the popular Western films.
Starring Ty Hardin as the roving cowboy adventurer.

After a game of poker, Bronco finds himself the proud owner of a thousand head of cattle. But neither he nor any of the other ranch owners in the district can move cattle out of the valley to the railhead where they would have some value.

Contributors

Bronco Layne:
Ty Hardin

Introduced by Peter Dimmock.
presenting News-Action-Personalities
Tonight's programme includes:

Lawn tennis
Dan Maskell discusses Wimbledon 1962 with some of the stars who could be this year's Wimbledon champions.

Cricket: England v. Pakistan
Brian Johnston previews the Second Test beginning at Lord's tomorrow.

Ice skating
Meet and see the British champions in action.

Cycling
David Coleman talks to Tommy Simpson about the Tour de France beginning this weekend.

Meet Britain's athlete of the year Adrian Metcalfe

Contributors

Presenter:
Peter Dimmock
Item presenter (Lawn tennis):
Dan Maskell
Item presenter (Cricket):
Brian Johnston
Interviewer (Cycling):
David Coleman
Interviewee (Cycling):
Tommy Simpson
Guest:
Adrian Metcalfe
Programme edited by:
Ronnie Noble
Programme edited by:
Leslie Kettley
Presented by:
Bryan Cowgill

Written and introduced by Kenneth Pearson who discusses the work of this controversial American writer, many of whose plays have been filmed.
With scenes from: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Baby Doll, The Rose Tattoo, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer, The Fugitive Kind, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth
Films by courtesy of Warner-Pathe, Paramount, Columbia, United Artists, Twentieth Century-Fox, and M.G.M.

Contributors

Writer/presenter:
Kenneth Pearson
Producer:
Richard Evans

Yul Brynner describes the work being done to relieve the plight of Algerian refugees in Tunisia and elsewhere.
A film made by Stanley Wright for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the League of Red Cross Societies

10.30-11.0 View of South and West
(Rowridge, Brighton)

10.30-11.0 Outlook on East Anglia
(Manningtree)

Contributors

Narrator (Man is to Man):
Yul Brynner
Producer (Man is to Man):
Stanley Wright

BBC Television

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