Today's story is 'A Letter to Amy' written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
(repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 pm)

starring Alec Guinness, Irene Dunne and Andrew Ray as 'The Mudlark'

A young boy's determination to see Queen Victoria so touches her that she consents to appear in public again after an absence of fifteen years.
Alec Guinness contributes a finely sketched portrait of Disraeli, Irene Dunne plays Victoria, and Andrew Ray - son of comedian Ted Ray - makes his debut in this film which was chosen for the Royal Film Performance in 1950.
Written and produced by Nunnally Johnson

Part of a concert of music by the Strauss family given this morning in the Main Hall of the Musikverein by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra led and conducted in the traditional manner by Willi Boskovsky with dancers from the Vienna Folk Opera Ballet
Introduced by Richard Baker
Recorded via Eurovision by courtesy of the Austrian Television Service
(Colour)

Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods
and Weather
(Colour)

A duel of words and wit between Ted Dexter, Drusilla Beyfus, John Laurie and Angela Douglas, Fyfe Robertson, Effie Morrison
Referee, Robert Robinson
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After the fire the Aldeburgh Festival rebuilds. Step, by step The Money Programme has watched the ambitions and the costs grow; now there is half a million pounds to raise. John Tusa went with Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears on a fund-raising tour in America and talked in Aldeburgh to the local people, the engineers, the money-raisers.

(Colour)

featuring Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra
Special guests Luis Alberto Del Parana y Los Paraguayos, Paco Pena with Maria Llerena, Los Primitivos

(Colour)

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Each Thursday one of the Line-Up team makes a personal choice
Tonight: Michael Dean talks to Russell Braddon, author and journalist.
(Colour)