A programme for children at home.
(to 11.30)
Poetry and Jazz
Introduced by Spike Milligan.
with Adelaide Hall, The Five Worthies, Steve Benbow, John Wain, Hugh Griffith.
Spike Milligan is appearing in 'Son of Oblomov' at the Comedy Theatre, London
or Crewcuts Among the Cowslips
A new comedy series by John Briley
[Starring] David Healy, David Kelsey, Eddie Matthews
also starring Alan Gifford as Colonel Hoggart
(David Kelsey is appearing in "Robert and Elizabeth" at the Lyric Theatre; Dennis Ramsden in "Chase Me Comrade" at the Whitehall Theatre, London)
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A comedy film series.
Starring John McGiver as Walter Burnley, the complaints manager of a large department store.
A rash statement by Walter leads to the almost impossible task of making a competent actor out of Joe Foley.
by Gustave Flaubert.
Dramatised in four parts by Giles Cooper.
Music composed by Tristram Cary and played by a section of the BBC Scottish Orchestra
Recorded in the BBC's Glasgow studio
First transmission on April 25, 1964
This sad story of poor, silly Emma, who abandons her staid doctor husband then tumbles into bankruptcy and disaster through her frantic efforts to hold successive lovers... was first brought out as a novel by Gustave Flaubert in 1857. The action is set in Normandy where the people have a reputation for a certain taciturnity and narrowness of mind.
Fifty people killed in riots.... five people burn themselves to death... protesting against any diminished status for the English language in India. Can the language issue split the sub-continent as the issue of religion did seventeen years ago?
A report by Roderick MacFarquhar.
The second of two programmes with the American trumpet star Buck Clayton.
with Humphrey Lyttelton and his Band.
Introduced by Steve Race.
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests.
