Listings
: Greenwich Time Signal; Mainly for Women: Countrywise
Norfolk TurkeysPhilip Wayre comments on the film made on his farm.
Rural Industries on Show
Introduced by A. W. Williams.
The Golden Eagle
Filmed and described by Charles Farmer.
Introduced by Maxwell Knight.
Contributors
: Mainly for Women: I've Just Been Reading
Lionel Hale suggests some new books for your library list and introduces a personality connected with one of the books.Contributors
: Watch with Mother: Picture Book
For the Very YoungPages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.00)
Contributors
: Children's Television presents: Bronco Busters
The film story of the Calgary Cowboy Show.: Children's Television: A Parcel for Miss Kneebone-Smith
Devised by Charlotte Mitchell and Richard West.[Starring] Leslie Henson
with Jean Telfer, Charlotte Mitchell, Bob Harris, Joe Greig
(Bob Harris and Joe Greig are appearing in "Salad Days" at the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
Contributors
: Children's Television: Six Days to Sydney: 6: Sail Ho!
Elisabeth and Max Robertson come to the end of their story of an Australian journey they made with 'Gladys.' With the help of films they introduce people, places, and animals they came across off the beaten highway 'Down Under.'Contributors
: Tonight
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.Sport - Music - Politics - People
Cinema - Theatre - Travel
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Cy Grant
Contributors
: Hey, Jeannie!
[Starring] Jennie CarsonA film in the series about a charming young Scots girl who discovers America. Jeannie decides to live on her own but finds that Greenwich Village is not as romantic as she had expected.
Contributors
: Place the Face
Pete Murray challenges his guests to Place the FaceA new quiz devised by Ralph Edwards.
Music by George Clouston and his Masqueraders
Contributors
: Theatre Night presents: Nekrassov
An excerpt from the new French farceby Jean-Paul Sartre
Translated from the French by Sylvia Leeson and George Leeson.
Televised direct from the Royal Court Theatre, London, by arrangement with the English Stage Company
See page 5
Contributors
: The Dock Brief
A play by John Mortimer[Starring] Michael Hordern and David Kossoff
See page 4
A Dock brief is a strange method of defending a prisoner which is still sometimes used in England. The prisoner, if he has no other legal help, is allowed to choose any barrister who is sitting in Court to appear for him. He takes his pick from the Dock, as you might try to pick out a winning race-horse with a pin, and prisoner and barrister then meet in the cells for a hurried consultation; a half-cooked defence is hastily brought to the boil; and the trial begins.
Tonight's play is about an elderly, unsuccessful barrister who finds himself one happy day picked out to defend an equally unsuccessful criminal. As they work together in the cell, becoming in imagination the Judge, the jury, and various favourable or ruthlessly destroyed witnesses, they become not only enthusiastic but deeply considerate of each other's tender feelings. Alone and happy they make a world which they can always control until they have to emerge, half way through the play, to face the rude reality of the trial.
The Dock Brief is designed as comedy; it is also designed to make the lawyers and the criminals of the world recognise their close affinity. (John Mortimer)
Contributors
: Picture Parade
A weekly magazine of films and film personalities introduced by Peter Haigh and Derek Bond.This edition includes scenes from "Seven Thunders" with Stephen Boyd, Tony Wright, Anna Gaylor, and Kathleen Harrison.
(Film by courtesy of the Rank Organisation)
Contributors
: See It Now: The Puerto Ricans: Americans on the Move
Fifty thousand immigrants from Puerto Rico enter the United States every year. A few find the new life they are looking for; many merely exchange a Caribbean for a mainland slum. This documentary film by the American "See It Now" team reports on the problems raised by this mass migration and describes Puerto Rico's attempts to improve its own living conditions and speed up the growth of its industry.Produced by Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly for the Columbia Broadcasting System
See page 9
Contributors
: News
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