Listings
: Greenwich Time Signal; Mainly for Women: Twice Twenty
A magazine for older women.The Lanchester Marionettes celebrating Shakespeare's birthday.
Meeting Place
Kathleen Taylor on her return from the Soviet Union.
To entertain you...
B. C. Hilliam (Flotsam)
Introduced by Basil Curtis.
Male Opinion
Denzil Batchelor, Colin MacInnes, Roderick Mann are invited to speak their minds about women.
Marjorie Proops counteracts with Mary Wimbush as referee.
Contributors
: Watch with Mother: Picture Book
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.(A BBC television film)
(to 16.00)
Contributors
: Children's Television
Belindawith Vera McKechnie.
All About Animals
George Cansdale introduces some more visitors to his programme.
A Boy Named Will
Written and produced by Jess Yates.
Derek Bond tells you about "A Boy Named Will" with Rosemary Harris and Paul Rogers.
(to 18.00)
Contributors
: Sports News
followed by The Weather: Highlight
from Birmingham.People, events, comments of today introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.
Contributors
: Fabian of Scotland Yard: The Executioner
Another showing of this film.[Starring] Bruce Seton
Contributors
: An extract from "A Likely Tale"
A new comedy by Gerald Savory.[Starring] Robert Morley and Margaret Rutherford
The action of the play takes place in the Petershams' house near Wimbledon Common.
Time, the present
A special performance from the Globe Theatre, London, before an invited audience (by arrangement with H.M. Tennent, Ltd., and Robert Morley Productions, Ltd.)
With his play George and Margaret, Gerald Savory created one of the most popular domestic comedies ever to be put on the stage, and both professional and amateur companies have been grateful to him ever since. With his new play A Likely Tale, the gratitude is more for the happy fortune that has brought Robert Morley and Margaret Rutherford together with Violet Farebrother as an excellent, ill-tempered foil - to exploit the innate comedy in the old theme of "waiting for the final will and testament". Playing a double role - that of the ageing widower Oswald, who once succeeded in getting a slender book of poems published, and of his son Jonah, an outsize in Teddy Boys, Robert Morley switches from fading gentility to brash opportunism with astonishing skill, while his sister Mirabelle, played by Margaret Rutherford, gives an enchanting performance as an elderly, sentimental spinster with her dreams and her crochet for consolation. (Rowan Ayers)
Contributors
: Panorama
Richard Dimbleby brings you Television's Window on the WorldEvery Monday the Panorama team of special contributors-using film and television cameras -focuses on events and personalities of the moment.
Contributors
: What's My Line?
TV's most popular panel gamewith Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, Gilbert Harding, Bob Monkhouse and Eamonn Andrews in the chair.
("What's My Line?" was devised by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, and is televised by arrangement with C.B.S. and Maurice Winnick)
Contributors
: Top Town: Round One: Fourth Heat: Soho, London v. Dumfries, Scotland
A friendly battle of entertainment for the 1956 title of 'Top Town'.Judges -
Professional: Dorothy Ward, Ted Kavanagh
Viewer: Tony Iveson
Introduced by Peter Haigh.
BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
From the BBC's television studio, Manchester.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down
Contributors
About this project
This site contains the BBC listings information which the BBC printed in Radio Times between 1923 and 2009. You can search the site for BBC programmes, people, dates and Radio Times editions.
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