for the deaf and hard of hearing
A look at the news of the week with film from all over the world and a commentary that can be seen as well as heard.

by Puccini
Starring Joan Carlyle as Mimi, Stuart Burrows as Rudolph, Adele Leigh as Musetta
The Ambrosian Opera Chorus
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Bean
Conductor, Charles Mackerras

(Joan Carlyle, Victor Godfrey, and John Constable appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

In the Interval, Joan Cross talks about the opera and its background.
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A review of the sciences.
Introduced by Colin Riach.

The Troubled Mind
Inside one of the largest mental hospitals in America. Horizon's cameras watch schizophrenic patients under treatment with remarkable new drugs and report a million-dollar attack on the problems of insanity.
with Dr. Nathan Kline, Director of Research, Rockland State Hospital, New York

Triple-A.S.
The American equivalent of the British Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, met in Berkeley, California, between Christmas and New Year.
Colin Riach reports.

A series of weekly programmes presenting music in the folk idiom from many parts of the world.
This week, from Ireland: The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem
The second of two programmes recorded during their recent visit to this country.

Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Michael Wale, Joan Bakewell.
and watch
Plunder
A weekly raid on the archives of BBC television.
This week's edition includes:
The opening of the Sutton Coldfield transmitter 1949

Sir Thomas Beecham on Delius

A. P. Herbert at the Savage Club

Moiseiwitsch playing the Tannhauser Overture