Listings
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
Presenter:
Basil
Curtis
Item presenter (Meeting Place):
Kathleen
Taylor
Entertainer (To entertain you...):
B.C. Hilliam
(Flotsam)
Panellist (Male Opinion):
Denzil
Batchelor
Panellist (Male Opinion):
Colin
MacInnes
Panellist (Male Opinion):
Roderick
Mann
Panellist (Male Opinion):
Marjorie
Proops
Referee (Male Opinion):
Mary
Wimbush
Arranged by:
Anne
Little
Producer:
Richard
Gilbert
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
(A BBC television film)
(to 16.00)
Contributors
Presenter:
Patricia
Driscoll
Editor:
Maria
Bird
Belinda
with 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
Presenter (Belinda):
Vera
McKechnie
Drawings (Belinda):
Tony
Hart
Presenter (All About Animals):
George
Cansdale
Writer/producer (A Boy Named Will):
Jess
Yates
Storyteller (A Boy Named Will):
Derek
Bond
[Actress] (A Boy Named Will):
Rosemary
Harris
[Actor] (A Boy Named Will):
Paul
Rogers
from Birmingham.
People, events, comments of today introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.
Contributors
Presenter:
Geoffrey Johnson
Smith
Another showing of this film.
[Starring] Bruce Seton
Contributors
Inspector Robert Fabian:
Bruce
Seton
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
Author:
Gerald
Savory
Director:
Peter
Ashmore
Decor by:
Motley
Presented for television by:
Dennis
Monger
Oswald Petersham:
Robert
Morley
Lola Petersham:
Violet
Farebrother
Mirabelle Petersham:
Margaret
Rutherford
Ursula Bludgeon:
Judy
Parfitt
Gregory Lupton:
Richard
Pearson
Jonah Petersham:
Robert
Morley
Richard Dimbleby brings you Television's Window on the World
Every Monday the Panorama team of special contributors-using film and television cameras -focuses on events and personalities of the moment.
Contributors
Presenter:
Richard
Dimbleby
Producer:
Michael
Peacock
TV's most popular panel game
with 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
Panellist:
Isobel
Barnett
Panellist:
Barbara
Kelly
Panellist:
Gilbert
Harding
Panellist:
Bob
Monkhouse
Chairman:
Eamonn
Andrews
Devised by:
Mark
Goodson
Devised by:
Bill
Todman
Presented by:
T. Leslie
Jackson
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
Judge (Professional):
Dorothy
Ward
Judge (Professional):
Ted
Kavanagh
Judge (Viewer):
Tony
Iveson
Presenter:
Peter
Haigh
Musicians:
BBC Northern Variety
Orchestra
[Orchestra] conducted by:
Alyn
Ainsworth
Producer:
Barney
Colehan