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How to achieve a couture finish

Making a straight skirt; Mounting for lightweight fabrics; Balancing a straight skirt, and titling; Preparing for zip fastener; Skirt darts
Introduced and demonstrated by Margaret Neale.
A BBC Educational broadcast

Contributors

Presenter/dressmaker:
Margaret Neale
Arranged by:
Diana Crutchley
Director:
Margaret Smith

A course in human biology.

How the muscle cell translates the energy from food into contraction.
Dr. D. R. Wilkie, Dr. H. E. Huxley, F.R.S.
Film facilities provided by: Professor A. F. Huxley, F.R.S., Professor R. J. Pulvertaft,
Institut ftir den wissenschaftlichen Film, Gottingen
A BBC Educational broadcast

Contributors

Presenter:
Dr. D. R. Wilkie
Presenter:
Dr. H. E. Huxley
Film facilities provided by:
Professor A. F. Huxley
Film facilities provided by:
Professor R. J. Pulvertaft
Edited and produced by:
James McCloy

Ysgol Dr. Williams Dolgellau, Carwyn James yn ymweld ag un o'r ysgolion annibynnol sydd a'i dyfodol yn y fantol Cynghorydd cerdd, James Williams
Cynhyrchydd, Selwyn Roderick
(Welsh transmitters, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ysgol Dr. Williams Dolgellau
Unknown:
Carwyn James
Unknown:
James Williams
Unknown:
Selwyn Roderick

Percy Thrower and Cliff Lewis compare the enclosed, hedged-in garden and the modern style of 'open front'.
Sequences include:
Planting beech and Thuja plicata: ripping out an overgrown and unsightly holly: and some good points of the overplanted privet.
From the Midlands

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Guest:
Cliff Lewis
Film cameraman:
Michael Williams
Film cameraman:
Stewart Farnell
Producer:
Paul Morby

Introduced by John Cherrington.

Ted Moult has been breaking the law and suffering from lawbreakers. J. V. Davies, Legal Adviser to the N.F.U., explains the rights of the farmer in some everyday situations.
From the Midlands
followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers

Contributors

Presenter:
John Cherrington
Item presenter:
J. V. Davies
Film editor:
Henry Fowler
Director:
John Bird
Producer:
John Kenyon

by Allan Prior.
A second showing of "Scare"

Home are the sailors - or so nearly home that they will run any risks to get ashore.

Contributors

Writer:
Allan Prior
Designer:
Richard Henry
Film Sequences - Cameraman:
John A. S. Turner
Film Sequences - Editor:
Ian Callaway
Script Editor:
John Hopkins
Casebook Material:
William Prendergast
Producer:
David E. Rose
Director:
Rudolph Cartier

by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Dramatised by Joy Harington in twelve episodes from the novels Kidnapped and Catriona.

David has been kidnapped and finds himself destined for the Carolinas and a life of slavery.

Contributors

Author:
Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised by:
Joy Harington
Music composed by:
Dudley Simpson
Film cameraman:
A. A. Englander
Film editor:
Sheila Tomlinson
Script editor:
Michael Voysey
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Gerard Glaister
Shuan:
Douclas Murchie
Ransome:
John Wainwright
Riach:
Bryden Murdoch
David Balfour:
Ian Cullen
Captain Hoseason:
Ewan Roberts
First sailor:
Brian Lawson
Second sailor:
Peter Diamond
Alan Breck:
Roddy McMillan

A Western film series.
Starring John Smith, Robert Fuller, Spring Byington and Dennis Holmes
with guest star, Lyle Bettger

Slim is assigned to guard a man awaiting trial for murder and finds it a far more dangerous task than he had anticipated.

Contributors

Slim Sherman:
John Smith
Jess Harper:
Robert Fuller
Daisy Cooper:
Spring Byington
Mike:
Dennis Holmes
Leland Emory:
Lyle Bettger

Dr. Paul Tillich one of the most influential thinkers of our time, recent guest of honour at the Time Magazine banquet, friend of President Kennedy talks to Oliver Hunkin about the American scene and the problems of living in the mid-twentieth century.
BBC film

Contributors

Interviewee:
Dr. Paul Tillich
Interviewer:
Oliver Hunkin
Film editor:
Peter Pierce
Director:
John Fearon

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

on behalf of The Rainer Foundation by C. A. Joyce, M.B.E., M.A.
Donations, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to: [address removed]

The Rainer Foundation is chiefly concerned with the welfare and training of 'problem' youngsters from broken or unhappy homes. Formerly known as the London Police Court Mission, its work began in 1876.

Contributors

Presenter:
C. A. Joyce

from the Baptist Church, Golcar, Colne Valley.
with the Colne Valley Male Voice Choir
Conducted by George E. Stead
Introduced by Donald Leggat.
From the North

Contributors

Singers:
The Colne Valley Male Voice Choir
[Choir] conducted by:
George E. Stead
Organist:
Irvine Parkin
Soloist:
Norma Procter
Prayer and Blessing:
The Rev. D. T. Williams
Presenter:
Donald Leggat
Producer:
Peter Hamilton

Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
Conducted by George Mitchell
and also starring Leslie Crowther, George Chisholm, John Boulter, Dai Francis, Tony Mercer, Benny Garcia, The Jackpots, The Television Toppers, Margaret Savage.

Contributors

Singers:
The Mitchell Minstrels
Minstrels conducted by/Vocal arrangements:
George Mitchell
Comedian:
Leslie Crowther
Musician/Jazzers' routine by:
George Chisholm
Singer:
John Boulter
Singer:
Dai Francis
Singer:
Tony Mercer
Singer:
Benny Garcia
Singers:
The Jackpots
Dancers:
The Television Toppers
Singer:
Margaret Savage
Dance direction:
Larry Gordon
Orchestrations:
Alan Bristow
Orchestrations:
Ray Terry
Orchestra conducted by:
Eric Robinson
Settings:
Stanley Dorfman
Devised and produced by:
George Inns

by Alan Sharp
Starring Michael Caine, Ian McShane, Madge Ryan
and Caroline Mortimer

Contributors

Writer:
Alan Sharp
Script Editor:
Vincent Tilsley
Designer:
John Cooper
Producer:
John Elliot
Director:
John Jacobs
Johnny:
Michael Caine
Woman in park:
Kate Lansbury
Ruth:
Caroline Mortimer
Mrs Bradley:
Madge Ryan
Max:
Ian McShane
Elsa:
Anna Cropper
George Gilmour:
Will Leighton
Mary Gilmour:
Hilda Fenemore

A new entertainment for television on Sunday evenings.
with Tony Beckley, Terence Brady, John Gower, Anne Jameson, Robin Ray, Clive Swift.
Writers for the series include: Oscar Wilde, Walter de La Mare, Confucius, Christopher Marlowe, Anonymous and many others.

Contributors

Music arranged and conducted by:
Alfred Ralston
Designer:
Norman Vertigan
Script editor:
Bamber Gascoigne
Studio director:
Terry Yarwood
Director:
Nicholas Garland
Associate producer:
Charles Chilton
Producer:
Antony Jay
Performer:
Tony Beckley
Performer:
Terence Brady
Performer:
John Gower
Performer:
Anne Jameson
Performer:
Robin Ray
Performer:
Clive Swift

BBC Television

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