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Introduced by Russell Taylor.

Insurance - this is protection against something that might happen. Four years ago your house cost £3,000. Today it could cost £4,000 to replace if burned down. Have you increased your insurance proportionately each year?
Assurance - this is protection against something that will happen, old age and death. What are the differences between Whole Life Assurance, Term Assurance and Endowment Assurance? What do they cost and what protection do they supply?
A BBC Educational Broadcast

Contributors

Presenter:
Russell Taylor
Drawings:
null Haro
Producer:
Christopher Doll

Introduced by Gordon Mosley.

Upland Farming
A look round the limestone area in the Peak district of Derbyshire with Lance Waud.

Farming Portrait
Arthur Rickwood started farming with one acre. He now farms 9,000 acres of fertile Fen soil and with 2,000 acres of carrots is the biggest grower in Europe.

From East Anglia
followed by the Weather Situation for farmers and growers

Contributors

Presenter:
Gordon Mosley
Item presenter (Upland Farming):
Lance Waud
Subject (Farming Portrait):
Arthur Rickwood
Director:
John Frost

by John Hopkins.
A second showing of some of the cases encountered by Z Victor One and Z Victor Two.

Complaints about a fast-moving, fast-talking door-to-door salesman give Jock and Fancy a busy day - while Sergeant Watt prepares the trap.

Contributors

Writer:
John Hopkins
Designer:
Stanley Morris
Film sequences - Cameraman:
Charles Lagus
Film sequences - Editor:
Christopher La Fontaine
Script associate:
John Gould
Producer:
David E. Rose
Director:
Michael Leeston-Smith

A Western filmed on location in Texas.
Starring Robert Preston, Robert Sterling, John Barrymore Jr.
Two young brothers struggle to make their ranch show a profit. Things improve when a notorious gunman starts to help them, but they are not sure of his motives nor whether he Is friend or foe.

Contributors

Director:
George Templeton
Kid Wichita:
Robert Preston
Tom Cloud:
Robert Sterling
Jeff Cloud:
John Barrymore Jr.
Sam Beard:
Chill Wills
Kathleen Boyce:
Cathy Downs
John Gaul:
John Litel
Earl Boyce:
Jack Elam

Written by Margaret Potter.
Pinky and Perky sail on a musical voyage around the world with John Slater as Cap'n Scuttle on board the paddle steamship Melodymaster.
From the North

Contributors

Writer:
Margaret Potter
Presented by/Puppets created by:
Jan Dalibor
Presented by:
Vlasta Dalibor
Additional manipulator:
Philip Rose
Additional manipulator:
Elizabeth Rose
Designer:
Tim Harvey
Producer:
Trevor Hill
Cap'n Scuttle:
John Slater

by Charles Dickens.
Dramatised in thirteen episodes by Constance Cox.

In which Old Martin instructs Mr. Pecksniff and young Martin makes a desperate resolution.
(Pearson Dodd is appearing in "One for the Pot" at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
See page 15

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Constance Cox
Music composed and conducted by:
John Hotchkis
Designer:
Susan Spence
Producer:
Campbell Logan
Director:
Joan Craft
Mark Tapley:
Tom Watson
Mrs Lupin:
Barbara Ogilvie
Old Martin:
Barry Jones
Mary Graham:
Ilona Rodgers
Charity:
Rosalind Knight
Mercy:
Anna Middleton
Bailey:
Peter Craze
Jonas Chuzzlewit:
Alex Scott
Anthony Chuzzlewit:
Carl Bernard
Chuffey:
Harold Scott
Pecksniff:
Richard Pearson
Martin:
Gary Raymond
Tom Pinch:
John Quentin
Mr Jinkins:
Peter Stephens
Mr Moddle:
Pearson Dodd
Mr Gander:
Clifford Parrish
Mrs Todgers:
Barbara Cavan
John Westlock:
Jeremy Burnham

'We have to try to understand the trial, to see the point of it, and know how best to face it'. (Abbe de Tourville)
Archbishop Anthony Bloom who practised as a doctor before becoming a priest talks to Malcolm Muggeridge.
Previously shown on August 11, 1963
Repeated tonight at 11.10

Contributors

Interviewee:
Archbishop Anthony Bloom
Interviewer:
Malcolm Muggeridge
Producer:
Oliver Hunkin

Community hymn-singing from Union Street Methodist Church, Torquay.
Introduced by Lionel Dakers and led by the combined choirs of Union Street Church and the Torquay Philharmonic Society with the Choir of Torquay Grammar School for Girls.

Contributors

Presenter:
Lionel Dakers
Musicians:
The Torquay Philharmonic Society
Singers:
The Choir of Torquay Grammar School for Girls
Conductor:
Ernest Goss
Organist:
William Humpherson
Soloist:
Frederick Harvey
Blessing:
The Rev. K. A. Bear
Presented by:
Kenneth Savidge

with Joan Sims
and Mary Millar, Len Lowe, Richard Moore, Mavis Ascott, The Cliff Adams Singers
Guest artist, Bert Weedon
See page 15

Contributors

Comedian:
Dick Emery
Performer:
Joan Sims
Dancer:
Mary Millar
[Actor]:
Len Lowe
[Actor]:
Richard Moore
Dancer:
Mavis Ascott
Singers:
The Cliff Adams Singers
Guitarist:
Bert Weedon
The Orchestra conducted by:
Harry Rabinowitz
Musical associate and orchestrations:
Dennis Wilson
Staging:
Douglas Squires
Scripts:
John Warren
Scripts:
John Singer
Scripts:
David Cumming
Scripts:
Barry Cryer
Scripts:
Neville Phillips
Scripts:
John Jennings
Film cameraman:
Len Newson
Film editor:
Alan Martin
Designer:
Melvyn Cornish
Producer:
John Street

A film series starring Raymond Burr as the famous lawyer investigator created by Erle Stanley Gardner.
With Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins

Perry Mason discovers a thriving racket in faking first editions which comes to light after a bookstore proprietor is found murdered.

Contributors

Character created by:
Erle Stanley Gardner
Perry Mason:
Raymond Burr
Della Street:
Barbara Hale
Paul Drake:
William Hopper
Hamilton Burger:
William Talman
Lt. Tragg:
Ray Collins

Created by A. J. Cronin.
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen
with Bill Simpson as Dr. Finlay
Guest stars, Judy Parfitt, Ian MacNaughton
See page 15

Contributors

Creator:
A. J. Cronin
Script:
Guy Morgan
Script editor:
Harry Green
In association with:
Graham Stewart
Film cameraman:
Peter Hamilton
Film cameraman:
Stewart A. Farnell
Film editor:
Ted Walter
Designer:
Lawrence Broadhouse
Producer:
Andrew Osborn
Director:
William Slater
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Denny Drummond:
Kenneth Campbell
Gen Sir Charles McGilvray:
Roger Maxwell
Dr Cameron:
Andrew Cruickshank
Jamie Drummond:
Ian MacNaughton
Peggy Drummond:
Judy Parfitt
Sister:
Delia Paton
Dr Finlay:
Bill Simpson
Mr Williamson:
Jack Lambert
Billie Kerr:
Harry Walker
Miss Simpson:
Pekoe Ainley
Jimmie McDouall:
George Logan
Mrs McDouall:
Margaret Boyd
Mr Maxwell:
Tony Steedman
Janet:
Barbara Mullen

with Tony Beckley, Terence Brady, Marian Diamond, Andrew Downie, John Fortune, John Gower, William Holmes
(Terence Brady is in "Beyond the Fringe" at the Fortune Theatre; John Gower in "Oh What a Lovely War" at Wyndham's Theatre, London)

Contributors

Music arranged and conducted by:
Alfred Ralston
Designer:
Malcolm Middleton
Script editor:
Nicholas Garland
Director:
Bill Hays
Associate producer:
Charles Chilton
Producer:
Antony Jay
Performer:
Tony Beckley
Performer:
Terence Brady
Performer:
Marian Diamond
Performer:
Andrew Downie
Performer:
John Fortune
Performer:
John Gower
Performer:
William Holmes

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