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See above and page 5
(to 13.30)
A visit to the County Ground at Worcester, where the opening match of the Australian Tour is being played.
At 12.0, 3.20 app., 4.0, 4.30, and 6.0
Contributors
Commentator:
E.W.
Swanton
Commentator:
Brian
Johnston
Presented for television by:
David
Martin
The 2,000 Guineas, first of the season's Classic races, will be televised on the second day of the first Spring Meeting.
2.30 The Chippenham Stakes over one-and-a-half miles
3.10 The 2,000 Guineas over one mile
Commentator, Peter O'Sullevan with Clive Graham to identify the horses and jockeys in the parade ring.
Contributors
Commentator:
Peter
O'Sullevan
Parade commentator:
Clive
Graham
Presented for television by:
John
Vernon
For the Very Young
(A BBC television film)
Wynford Vaughan Thomas tells a true story about a little elephant in Africa.
Swing High
with Chris Barber's Jazz Band.
Introduced by Alex Macintosh.
Ask Your Dad
Humphrey Lestocq takes the chair in a light-hearted family general knowledge game.
Contributors
Storyteller:
Wynford Vaughan
Thomas
Musicians (Swing High):
Chris Barber's Jazz
Band
Presenter (Swing High):
Alex
MacIntosh
Presented by (Swing High):
Vere
Lorrimer
Chairman (Ask Your Dad):
Humphrey
Lestocq
The closing overs of the day's play.
(to 18.30)
General Summary; Sports News; The Weather
People, events, comments of today.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
Contributors
Presenter:
Cliff
Michelmore
by Michael Pertwee and Roland Pertwee.
Contributors
Writer:
Michael
Pertwee
Writer:
Roland
Pertwee
Director:
Richard
West
Producer:
John
Warrington
Mr. Grove:
Edward
Evans
Mrs. Grove:
Ruth
Dunning
Pat:
Sheila
Sweet
Jack:
Peter
Bryant
Daphne:
Margaret
Downs
Lennie:
Christopher
Beeny
Mr. Reed:
Frederick
Treves
BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras visit the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough in their magnificent home in Woodstock Park, Oxfordshire, the gift of Queen Anne to the first Duke of Marlborough.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby.
See page 7
Contributors
Presenter:
Richard
Dimbleby
Subject:
The Duke of
Marlborough
Subject:
The Duchess of
Marlborough
Presented by:
Barrie
Edgar
[Starring] George Burns and Gracie Allen in the film Happy Hmmm Hmmm to You
Contributors
Himself:
George
Burns
Herself:
Gracie
Allen
Kenneth Horne brings to Camera One forty-five minutes of non-stop Variety from the Television Theatre with The Great Felixio, Margot Ward, Jimmy Parkinson, The Sparkes Trio, Billy Burden, Bobby Dennis, The Paradise Hawaiians, The George Mitchell Singers.
Contributors
Presenter:
Kenneth
Horne
Balancing act:
The Great
Felixio
Performer:
Margot
Ward
Singer:
Jimmy
Parkinson
Acrobatics:
The Sparkes
Trio
Comedian:
Billy
Burden
Comedian:
Bobby
Dennis
Dancers:
The Paradise
Hawaiians
Singers:
The George Mitchell
Singers
Orchestra under the direction of:
George
Clouston
Producer:
Albert
Stevenson
Introduced by Peter Dimmock.
Spotlighting news, views, and personalities from the world of sport.
Contributors
Presenter:
Peter
Dimmock
Editor:
Paul
Fox
Editor:
Ronnie
Noble
Presented by:
Alan
Rees
A film about the English Lakes with Norman Nicholson the Lakeland poet.
(Previously televised on Dec. 7, 1955)
(All transmitters except Wenvoe, North Hessary Tor, and Les Platons)
10.15 Outlook
A miscellany from Wales.
(Wenvoe, North Hessary Tor, and Les Platons only)
Contributors
Presenter (Discovery of a Landscape):
Norman
Nicholson
Writer (Discovery of a Landscape):
Basil
Taylor
Photography (Discovery of a Landscape):
Kenneth
Higgins
Editor (Discovery of a Landscape):
Leonard
Trumm
Commentator (Discovery of a Landscape):
Bernard
Slydel
Commentator (Discovery of a Landscape):
Betty
Hardy
Commentator (Discovery of a Landscape):
Oliver
Burt
Commentator (Discovery of a Landscape):
Alan
Wheatley
Commentator (Discovery of a Landscape):
Harold
Scott
Commentator (Discovery of a Landscape):
Ivan
Samson
Commentator (Discovery of a Landscape):
Lewis
Stringer
Directed and produced by (Discovery of a Landscape):
John
Reed
Edited and produced by (Outlook):
Selwyn
Roderick
Edited and produced by (Outlook):
John Ormond
Thomas
The third of a monthly series of programmes in which General Sir Brian Horrocks draws upon his memories of friend and foe, officers and men, in some of the great battlefields of World War II.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down
Contributors
Presenter:
General Sir Brian
Horrocks
Presented by:
Huw
Wheldon