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Taith i Batagonia gyda Nan Davies
Wedi ugain mlynedd o lafurio yn Nyffryn y Camwy, yr oedd yn amlwg i Gymry'r Wladfa nad oedd tiroedd y Dyffryn yn ddigon i'w cynnal. Soniai'r Indiad am wlad well tu hwnt i'r mynyddoedd. Yr ymchwil am y wlad well a ffrwyth yr ymchwil honno fydd pwnc y rhaglen heddiw.
Y ffilmio. Bill Greenhalgh Sain, Norman Allen
Golygydd y ffilm, Douglas Mair Y cyflwyno, Nan Davies
Y cyfarwyddo, John Ormond
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)

A Christian theme introduced by The Rev. John Kent assisted by The Rev. Geoffrey Ainger, The Rev. Norwyn Denny, The Rev. David Mason and illustrated by John Graham and Preston Lockwood.

Contributors

Presenter:
The Rev. John Kent
Assisted by:
The Rev. Geoffrey Ainger
Assisted by:
The Rev. Norwyn Denny
Assisted by:
The Rev. David Mason
Illustrated by:
John Graham
Illustrated by:
Preston Lockwood
Producer:
R. T. Brooks

and Weather for Farmers
John Cherrington reports on the state of farming on the Continent in a series of programmes introduced by Clifford Selly.
From the Midlands

Contributors

Reporter:
John Cherrington
Presenter:
Clifford Selly
Research:
Tristram Beresford
Film cameraman:
Paul Hansen
Film recordist:
Peter Hansen
Film editor:
Henry Fowler
Designer:
Charles Carroll
Producer:
Ronald Webster

by Allan Prior.
A second showing of some of the cases encountered by Z Victor One and Z Victor Two.

In Victor Division the police often live next door to unruly members of the community. Bob and Janey Steele find that this can have unpleasant, even dangerous, consequences.

Contributors

Writer:
Allan Prior
Director:
Eric Hills
Designer:
Frederick Knapman
Script Editor:
John Hopkins
Producer:
David E. Rose
PC Bob Steele:
Jeremy Kemp
Janey Steele:
Dorothy White

[Starring] Joan Davis, Jack Haley
with Ethel Smith, Gene Krupa and his Band

This backstage story of a chorus girl from the British aristocracy is set against the production of a spectacular musical show for which George White was world-famous.

Contributors

Director:
Felix E. Feist
Joan Mason:
Joan Davis
Jack Williams:
Jack Haley
Gene Krupa:
null Himself
Tom McGrath:
Phillip Terry
George White:
Glenn Tryon
Jill Asbury:
Martha Holliday
Clarabelle:
Margaret Hamilton
Ethel Smith:
null Herself
Billie:
Bettejane Greer
Hilda:
Rose Murphy

An adventure serial in six episodes by Terence Dudley.

Who has kidnapped Rhona Spencer? Andrew Giddings answers a call for help!

Contributors

Writer:
Terence Dudley
Producer:
Brian Bell
Music composed and conducted by:
Norman Kay
Designer:
Norman James
Andrew Giddings:
Gary Watson
Susan Melford:
Judy Cornwell
Mrs Cowie:
Sheila Burrell
Det Sgt Wendall:
John Ringham
Det Supt Bradley:
Edward Evans
Chinaman:
Eric Young
Det Constable:
Bill Cartwright
P.C.:
Stanley Walsh
Chinese waiter:
Kristopher Kum

A Western film series.
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

Students from Birmingham University ask questions about God and Morals and are answered by Lady Longford, Canon Roy McKay, The Rev. Leslie Weatherhead.
Chairman, David Dimbleby
From the Midlands

Contributors

Panellist:
Lady Longford
Panellist:
Canon Roy McKay
Panellist:
The Rev. Leslie Weatherhead
Chairman:
David Dimbleby
Arranged by:
Eric Blennerhassett
Producer:
Barrie Edgar

Community hymn-singing for Hospital Sunday from Birmingham Parish Church.
Introduced by a doctor.

Immortal, invisible (Tune, St. Denio)
Firmly I believe and truly (Tune, Stuttgart)
At even, ere the sun was set (Tune, Angelus)
Solo: Say to them that are of a fearful heart (S. S. Wesley)
Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old (Tune, St. Matthew)
From thee all skill and science flow (Tune, Belmont)
Solo: God liveth still (Bach)
O thou who earnest from above (Tune, Hereford)
Forth in thy name O Lord I go (Tune, Song 34, Orlando Gibbons)
Collect: Almighty and everlasting
God (Orlando Gibbons)
Ye holy angels bright (Tune, Darwall's 148th)
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
A Doctor [name uncredited]
Conductor:
Geoffrey Fletcher
Organist:
Sidney Kesterton
Television presentation:
John McGonagle

with Arthur Askey and Alan Melville.
A series of unusual spectacles written by Alan Melville and produced by Bryan Sears.
with Pip Hinton, David Kernan, Molly Weir, Greta Hamby, Josephine Blake, June Smith
and This week's special guest Luis Alberto Del Parana and his quartet Los Paraguayos

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Melville
Producer:
Bryan Sears
Comedian:
Arthur Askey
Comedian:
Alan Melville
Performer:
Pip Hinton
Performer:
David Kernan
Performer:
Molly Weir
Performer:
Greta Hamby
Performer:
Josephine Blake
Performer:
June Smith
Musicians/special guest:
Luis Alberto Del Parana and his quartet Los Paraguayos
Numbers staged by:
Alfred Rodrigues
Orchestrations:
Dennis Wilson
[The Orchestra] leader:
Alec Firman
[The Orchestra] directed by:
Harry Rabinowitz
Settings:
Marilyn Taylor
Film editor:
Joe Sterling

A film series.
Starring Raymond Burr as the famous lawyer investigator created by Erle Stanley Gardner.
with Barbara Hale, William Hopper, Hugh Marlowe, Robert F. Simon

Perry Mason is asked by a wealthy electronics manufacturer to sue the United States Navy but the situation takes on a dramatic change and instead he finds himself defending a sailor accused of murdering his captain.

Contributors

Character created by:
Erle Stanley Gardner
Perry Mason:
Raymond Burr
Della Street:
Barbara Hale
Paul Drake:
William Hopper
Cmdr. James Page:
Hugh Marlowe
Anthony Beldon:
Robert F. Simon

by Gwyn Thomas.
[Starring] Glyn Owen, Kenneth Griffith, Meredith Edwards, Aubrey Richards, Tenniel Evans

Contributors

Writer:
Gwyn Thomas
Producer:
Gilchrist Calder
Designer:
Paul Bernard
The Mayor:
Meredith Edwards
Selwyn Dell:
Glyn Owen
Jason Grace:
Tenniel Evans
Davies:
Artro Morris
Milton Moyle:
Aubrey Richards
Minerva Moyle:
Rhoda Lewis
A neighbour:
Don Matthews
Barney Farnum:
Richard Davies
Offa Mogg:
Kenneth Griffith
Mrs Hollyman:
Joan Sanderson
The Doctor:
Emrys Leyshon
The Maid:
Carol Lyn Davies

A fortnightly magazine of the arts.
Introduced by Huw Wheldon.
Tonight's programme includes:
Poet in a Society
A film study of Roy Fuller.
Poet, novelist, and solicitor to one of the 'Big Five' Building Societies Poems should be defendable like prose; Like blood, unclotted; even like a nose Not half an inch too long

Contributors

Presenter:
Huw Wheldon
Subject/poet (Poet in a Society):
Roy Fuller
The poems spoken by (Poet in a Society):
Hugh Burden
Director (Poet in a Society):
David Jones
Film editor:
Allan Tyrer
Associate producer:
Nancy Thomas
Editor:
Humphrey Burton

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