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: Beunydd
Bwrw golwg dros bynciau'r dydd mewn sgwrs a ffilm-a chyfle i gwrdd a rhai sy'n amlwg yn y newyddion.(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.15)
: Summer Grandstand
(See panel)Introduced by Alan Weeks
Today's Timetable
Racing direct from Newbury
2.0 The Polar Jest Apprentice Handicap
2.30 The Yattendon Plate
3.0 The Oxfordshire Stakes
3.30 The Washington Singer Stakes
4.30 The Shrivenham Handicap
Athletics direct from the White City Stadium 2.35. 3.5, 3.35, 4.0, 4.35: Gt. Britain v. Poland
The decisive day of the match against one of the strongest European athletic nations. Organised by the British Amateur Athletic Board in conjunction with the 'News of the World: The television presentation includes: The Emsley Carr Mile
Swimming direct from Blackpool at 3.15, 3.45 and 4.10: Gt. Britain v. W. Germany
The decisive day of the match at the Derby Baths, Blackpool
Sports Results Service
1.35 Lunchtime cricket scores
4.55 Racing and cricket summaries
Contributors
Presenter:
Alan
Weeks
Commentator (Racing):
Clive
Graham
Commentator (Racing):
Peter
Bromley
Television Presentation (Racing):
Dennis
Monger
Commentator (Athletics):
Norris
McWhirter
Commentator (Athletics):
Michael
Henderson
Commentator (Swimming):
Peter
West
Commentator (Swimming):
Harry
Walker
Television Presentation (Swimming):
Ray
Lakeland
Presented by:
Bryan
Cowgill
Programme Editor:
Paul
Fox
: The Lone Ranger: The Wrong Man
Ted Latham and John Meredith both want to marry the Judge's daughter. The Judge is killed-Ted and John accuse each other of his death; it is left to the Lone Ranger and Tonto to discover who is guilty, and who is worthy to marry the Judge's daughter.Contributors
Lone Ranger:
Clayton
Moore
Tonto:
Jay
Silverheels
: Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School: Bunter's Bull's-eye
A new series for television by Frank Richards.[Starring] Gerald Campion
(BBC recording)
Contributors
Writer:
Frank
Richards
Director:
Graham
Gauld
Producer:
David
Goddard
Bob Cherry:
Cavan
Kendall
Frank Nugent:
Michael
Crawford
Hurree Singh:
Leonard
Davey
Johnny Bull:
Nigel
Anthony
Harry Wharton:
Richard
Palmer
Billy Bunter:
Gerald
Campion
Mr. Quelch:
John
Woodnutt
[Actor]:
Peter
Voigt
[Actor]:
Roger
Wright
: Today's Sport
Introduced by Alan Weeks.A news summary of today's sporting highlights.
Presented by the Sportsview Unit
Contributors
Presenter:
Alan
Weeks
: Wells Fargo: The Tired Gun
Adventures of the famous Western Stagecoach Service.[Starring] Dale Robertson
Jim Hardie has to prove to a young woman that sisterly devotion can be misplaced when its obiect is a trigger-happy gunman.
Contributors
Jim Hardie:
Dale
Robertson
: Drumbeat
Featuring Bob Miller and The Millermen, The John Barry Seven, Vince Eager, Adam Faith, Sylvia Sands, Danny Williams, The RaindropsGuest stars, The Poni-Tails (specially recorded for this programme)
Compere, Trevor Peacock
Contributors
Musicians:
Bob Miller and the
Millermen
Musicians:
The John Barry
Seven
Singer:
Vince
Eager
Singer:
Adam
Faith
Singer:
Sylvia
Sands
Singer:
Danny
Williams
Singers:
The
Raindrops
Singers:
The
Poni-Tails
Compere:
Trevor
Peacock
Producer:
Stewart
Morris
: Charlesworth: 20: Jobs for the Boys
Stories from the Casebook of Detective-Superintendent Charlesworth by Berkely Mather.[Starring] Wensley Pithey as Charlesworth
with William Mervyn, Barbara Shelley
Contributors
Writer:
Berkely
Mather
Producer:
Terence
Dudley
Designer:
Richard
Henry
Fredlicha:
Barbara
Shelley
Albert:
Sam
Kydd
Begbie:
William
Mervyn
Detective-Superintendent Charlesworth:
Wensley
Pithey
Detective-Sergeant Spence:
Tony
Church
Gadsby:
Edward
Rees
Squalor:
Norman
Mitchell
Maid:
Mary
Jordan
Feodr:
Gerard
Heinz
Krampski:
Gertan
Klauber
Sergeant Wrothbury:
Neil
Wilson
: Trinder Box
Tommy Trinder opens his Trinder Box and discloses The Raindrops, Ravic and Babs, Janet Ball, Steve Arlen and Guest Star: Phyllis Marshall.(Ravic and Babs are appearing at the Eve Club, London)
Contributors
Presenter/Comedian:
Tommy
Trinder
Singers:
The
Raindrops
Skaters:
Ravic and
Babs
Dancer/Choreographer:
Janet
Ball
Singer:
Steve
Arlen
Singer:
Phyllis
Marshall
Writer:
Denis
Goodwin
Additional material:
David
Ellis
Musical Associate/Orchestra Director:
Bert
Waller
Designer:
Malcolm
Goulding
Producer:
G.B.
Lupino
: Saturday Playhouse presents: The Cathedral
by Hugh Walpole[Starring] Donald Wolfit
with Mark Dignam, Kathleen Michael
(See facing page)
The Tomb of the Black Bishop in Polchester Cathedral is not described in any guide-book, and Polchester itself, the home of Archdeacon Brandon, cannot be identified as either Truro or Exeter, though it is unmistakably in the west of England. It is a city created by Hugh Walpole's own imagination, assisted by memories of the various cathedral cities where he lived during his boyhood, and used as the setting for five or six of his novels, including The Cathedral and the Jeremy series.
Tonight's television play gives us the unusual privilege of going inside Polchester's famous cathedral, which provides an impressive and in some ways symbolic background for a drama of personal conflicts and human vanities in the year of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. In particular it is the drama of Adam Brandon, the Archdeacon (played by Sir Donald Wolfit), who finds his previously undisputed mastery of cathedral and diocese suddenly challenged by the advent of a newcomer.
The clash between a proud man, sure of his own rectitude, and forces working against him is the kind of situation that Hugh Walpole always handled with great dexterity. When the suave and quietly ambitious Canon Ronder comes to Polchester, Archdeacon Brandon is on top of the world-handsome, assured, vigorous, and domineering, with an apparently admiring wife, a good-looking son at Oxford, and an amiable daughter who has just left school. Yet from that moment his position, both public and private, begins to crumble beneath him, and in every misfortune he seems to see the hand of his enemy, Ronder.
As a book The Cathedral was notable for its skilful intermingling of ecclesiastical and domestic affairs. This is faithfully preserved in the television play, so that the question of who should be the next rector of Pybus St. Anthony (an issue in which Brandon's conservatism is directly opposed by Ronder's more progressive outlook) becomes as absorbing as the story of Mrs. Brandon's revolt against her husband.
The novel's elaborate picture of social life in a Victorian cathedral city, as recalled by an author writing in 1922, could hardly be presented in detail in a dramatic version; but there are fascinating glimpses of a world of clerical tea-parties and inveterate gossips (delightfully typified by Ellen Stiles), of visits to the circulating library in search of Mr. Barrie's latest book, and of a caste system dominated by the aristocratic St. Leaths at 'the Castle.'
Viewers who know the book may be disappointed (as I am) to find that Annie Hogg, the stalwart, independent and attractive daughter of a Polchester publican, has vanished from the story. But some characters had inevitably to be sacrificed, and in general the adaptation ingeniously covers most of the principal events. (Edgar Holt)
Contributors
Author:
Hugh
Walpole
Designer:
Richard
Wilmot
Producer:
Barbara
Burnham
Archdeacon Brandon:
Donald
Wolfit
Canon Foster:
John
Horsley
Canon Bentinck-Major:
John
Ruddock
Mrs. Brandon:
Kathleen
Michael
Joan Brandon:
Elizabeth
Shepherd
Miss Milton:
Betty
Hardy
Canon Ronder:
Mark
Dignam
Ellen Stiles:
Lally
Bowers
Johnny St. Leath:
David
Webb
Agnes:
Moira
Mannion
The Rev. Frank Morris:
Alan
Edwards
The Dean:
William
Sherwood
Falk Brandon:
Dinsdale
Landen
The Rev. Ambrose Wistons:
Eric
Thompson
: Crusade in the Pacific: 4: Attack in the Central Pacific
Written by Fred Feldkamp.
The story of the war against Japan.
At the Quebec Conference in 1943, Mr. Churchill and President Roosevelt decided that the war in the Pacific must be speeded up. The first result was the attack on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, an attack which ended in the toughest single fight in the 167-year history of the American Marines Corps.
A March of Time production
Contributors
Writer:
Fred
Feldkamp
Editor:
Jack
Bush
Producer:
Arthur B.
Tourtellot
: The Phil Silvers Show: Bilko Goes to Monte Carlo
Starring Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko.Contributors
Sergeant Bilko:
Phil
Silvers
: Professional Boxing: European Featherweight Championship
Sergio Caprari (Italy), the holder v. Gracieux Lamperti (France)Direct from Italy
A visit to San Remo to see the whole of this fifteen-round contest.
Presented in collaboration with the Italian Television Service
Contributors
Boxer:
Sergio
Caprari
Boxer:
Gracieux
Lamperti
Commentator:
Raymond
Glendenning
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