Listings
: For Women: Leisure and Pleasure
Introduced by Isobel Barnett.Prison Visiting
Andrea Troubridge and Andrew Timothy and Frances Timothy find out what they can do to help.
What's on at the Theatre
A dramatic critic reviews some of the London shows.
Come to the Fair
Kenneth Horne talks about the British Industries Fair.
Music
Josephine Kendall White plays some Spanish music.
Contributors
: Children's Television: The Explorer: 1: The Journey Begins: Wales and Liverpool - 1856
Written by Estelle Holt.A serial play in five parts based on the life of the famous explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
(Meredith Edwards appears by permission of the Old Vic Trust, Ltd.)
Naomi Capon writes on page 21
(to 17.30)
Contributors
: Election Broadcast
on behalf of the Conservative Party: Away from the Nest
Peter Scott introduces a Norfolk schoolmaster, Dick Bagnall Oakeley, who specialises in filming birds away from their nests.Contributors
: Thunder Rock
A television version of Robert Ardrey's play.The action takes place between sunset and sunrise inside Thunder Rock Lighthouse, Lake Michigan.
Time, the present
Stephen Murray as Charleston, the lightkeeper, and Margo Lorenz as Melanie Kurtz. They share a love which spans a hundred years
Charleston, the American newspaper man whose mind is the heart of this matter, is a man who has taken escapism to extremes. Disillusioned, indignant and cynical, he has withdrawn from a world divided by ideologies and hounded by the threat of total war, and has taken a job as keeper of a lonely lighthouse on the rocks of Lake Michigan. There, in eerie solitude, he creates his own strange world, bringing to life through his imagination the immigrant victims of a shipwreck a hundred years before. The problem he faces -and eventually resolves in introspective argument with his ghostly but dramatically lively companions-is how far, if at all, the individual is responsible for the fate of his generation. The play, written for the Group Theatre of America in 1939, has its terms of reference brought up to date in this new television adaptation, and its message is perhaps even more urgent and compelling than before. (Kenneth A. Hurren)
At 8.45
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: Find the Link
with Leslie Mitchell in the chair.Josephine Douglas, Carole Carr, Kenneth Horne, Peter Noble finding the links between the challengers.
Special investigators, Pauline and Larry Forrester
Contributors
: News (sound only); followed by Election Broadcast
Miss Margaret Herbison, Labour candidate for the Northern Division of Lanark(Recording of broadcast in the Home Service at 9.15 p.m.)
(Sound only)
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