A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'The Snowman'
(to 11.20)

Ten programmes for home dress-makers who want to extend their skill and keep up to date with fashion trends

Fashion comments: Joanne Brogden
Demonstration: Ann Ladbury
Fitting: Beryl Rouse

See page 27
Further details of the pattern, size ranges, and the sewing and fitting processes demonstrated in the programme are included in the booklet 'New Clothes that Count'. price 4s. 0d.-see page 26

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods
followed by The Weather
(Colour)

by Aldo Nicolaj
Translated by Anthony Paul
A further series of short plays specially written by famous authors featuring distinguished English and Continental actresses in solo performances
[Starring] Fenella Fielding

Marcella, the moving spirit of the cultural life of a small Italian community, discovers that her favourite author, a man of world renown, is living in the town. Her attempts to confront him are always foiled by nervousness on her part, and their eventual meeting proves a total embarrassment to Marcella.

(Next week: Megs Jenkins in 'Long Live the Queen' by Aldo Nicolaj)
(Colour)

Achievement... Happiness... Tragedy... Stress...
A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, John Percival, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: The Making of Miss World
The organisers confess modestly that the Miss World contest is 'one of the biggest publicity gimmicks in the world', The BBC cheerfully brings the pulchritudinous finals to 27 million viewers. Fifty-four sets of vital statistics. Fifty-four national hopes burning beneath swimming costumes, carefully inspected for artificial devices.
It all adds up to eight days of near hysteria; rows, tears, chaperones and a babel of interpreters. Big girls, small girls, olive girls. Girls who care, and girls who don't. Girls who cheat, and girls who won't. The contest is planned with military precision. The result is a crown, £2,500, and a handful of golden 'perks'.
This time Man Alive was behind the scenes during all the struggles that go into the making of Miss World.
(Colour)

A selection of musical milestones from the golden days of the silver screen
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Tonight: the 1936 production of The Great Ziegfeld
starring William Powell, Myrna Loy
with Luise Rainer, Fannie Brice, Frank Morgan, Virginia Bruce, Reginald Owen, Ray Bolger

A spectacular musical entertainment based on the life and loves of America's greatest showman.
By today's standards this is a very long film, but it is sustained by some of the most tuneful and spectacular numbers ever filmed-including the famous 'A pretty girl is like a melody' staged on a gigantic rotating spiral rostrum.

(Colour)

on the night of the premiere of Funny Girl
Barbra Streisand is interviewed by Michael Dean

(Colour)