Listings
: For the Schools: Travel Talks: Hunters, Herdsmen, and Farmers: Angotee, Eskimo Boy
An abridged and adapted version of The National Film Board of Canada film of an Eskimo's childhood.(First shown last Monday)
(to 11.45)
Contributors
Narrator:
Carol
Lochnan
Presented by:
Peggie
Broadhead
: Beunydd
Newyddion y Dydd ynghyd A Bwrw Golwg ar Amaethyddiaeth, Diwydiant, a Materion Seneddol(News of the day, and surveys on agriculture, industry, and political matters)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.15)
: For the Schools: Music Makers: 2: String Orchestra
A series of eleven programmes about musical instruments, their players, and the music written for them.The Strings of the Haydn Orchestra
Introduced and conducted by Harry Newstone.
Contributors
Presenter/orchestra conductor:
Harry
Newstone
Musicians:
The Strings of the Haydn
Orchestra
Producer:
Arthur
Langford
: Watch with Mother: The Woodentops
For the Very YoungStories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(BBC film)
(to 14.45)
Contributors
Puppeteer:
Audrey
Atterbury
Puppeteer:
Molly
Gibson
Voices:
Eileen
Browne
Voices:
Josefina
Ray
Voices:
Peter
Hawkins
Script and music:
Maria
Bird
: Blue Peter
A weekly programme for younger viewers.Introduced by Christopher Trace.
including:
Brigade of Guards: 4
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers: Part 4
A story by Beatrix Potter with the original pictures.
Contributors
Presenter:
Christopher
Trace
Author (The Tale of Samuel Whiskers):
Beatrix
Potter
Producer:
John Hunter
Blair
: Whirlybirds: The Big U
An old prospector, searching for uranium, has been missing for three days. Nothing unusual perhaps, but it leads Chuck and P.T. into a series of new adventures in which they really have to put their Whirlybird through its paces.Contributors
P.T. Moore:
Craig
Hill
Chuck Martin:
Kenneth
Tobey
: Sketch Club
With Adrian Hill who sets a subject, helps you with your picture-making and announces this week's prize-winners.Picture Gallery: 'Bric-a-Brac'
("Sketch Club" Exhibition opens at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Plas Mawr, Conway, North Wales, on Oct. 3)
Contributors
Presenter/Artist:
Adrian
Hill
Presented by:
Gordon
Murray
: News; The Weather
On transmitters serving the areas:6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales 6.15-6.20
: Gardening Club
Introduced by Percy Thrower with seasonal work in garden and greenhouse.Autumn Shrub Colour and more Ornamental Trees for Smaller Gardens
Including Weeping Willow, Tree of Heaven, Stag's-horn Sumach
A Garden Visit with Cliff Lewis (Worcestershire)
From the BBC's Midland television studio
Contributors
Presenter:
Percy
Thrower
Item presenter (A Garden Visit):
Cliff
Lewis
Producer:
Paul
Morby
: Armchair Voyage
Sir Mortimer Wheeler takes you on a Hellenic CruiseIn the second showing of this programme, the last in a series of three, the Hellenic Travellers' Club sail through the Isles of Greece from Delos to Athens.
Contributors
Presenter/narrator:
Sir Mortimer
Wheeler
Photographed by:
Basil
Maros
Photographed by:
John A. S.
Turner
Film editor:
Sheila S.
Tomlinson
Producer:
Stephen
Hearst
: Malcolm Mitchell
sings with the Trio to entertain you with a short programme of their favourite songs.Contributors
Singer:
Malcolm
Mitchell
Presented by:
Kenneth
Milne-Buckley
: Chan Canasta
Chan Canasta is a remarkable manTonight he gives a demonstration of Psycho-Magic before a panel of well-known personalities.
(BBC recording)
Contributors
Magician:
Chan
Canasta
Presented by:
Francis
Essex
: The History of Mr. Polly: Last Episode
by H. G. WellsAdapted for television by Constance Cox
[Starring] Emrys Jones as Mr. Polly
with Mary MacKenzie, Daphne Anderson, Fabia Drake, Patrick Troughton, Richard Pearson.
In which Mr. Polly makes a visit and risks his paradise.
Contributors
Author:
H.G.
Wells
Adapted by:
Constance
Cox
Music:
Alan
Bristow
Film Cameraman:
Bryan
Langley
Film Editor:
J.
Sterling
Costumes supervised by:
Elizabeth
Agombar
Make-up supervised by:
Tommy
Manderson
Designer:
Stephen
Bundy
Producer:
Douglas
Allen
Mr. Polly:
Emrys
Jones
Middle-aged gentleman:
Leslie
Handford
Middle-aged lady:
Greta
Wood
Father in mourning:
Aubrey
Danvers-Walker
Agnes:
Anne
Ford
Albert:
Graham
Rowe
Charlie:
Ian
Keill
Doreen:
Frances
Cowen
The Plump Woman:
Fabia
Drake
Two apprentices:
Ralph
Ball
Two apprentices:
Terence
Brook
Uncle Jim:
Patrick
Troughton
Carter:
Leslie
Weston
Warder:
Fred
Rawlings
Policeman:
Richard
Pearson
Postman:
John
Crocker
Annie:
Daphne
Anderson
Miriam:
Mary
MacKenzie
: Hancock's Half-Hour
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton.[Starring] Tony Hancock
featuring Sidney James
(BBC recording)
Contributors
Writer:
Alan
Simpson
Writer:
Ray
Galton
Designer:
Lawrence
Broadhouse
Producer:
Duncan
Wood
Anthony Aloysius Hancock:
Tony
Hancock
Sidney Balmoral James:
Sidney
James
Bank manager:
Robert
Dorning
Mrs. Cravatte:
Patricia
Hayes
[Actor]:
Mark
Singleton
[Actor]:
Ralph
Nossek
Librarian:
Hugh
Lloyd
[Actor]:
Arthur
Milliard
[Actor]:
Tom
Clegg
: The Third Man: One Kind Word
A new film series starring Michael Rennie as Harry Lime with Guest Star, Mai Zetterling.A beautiful girl, rescued from the Thames at London Bridge, links Harry Lime with his own earlier adventures in post-war Vienna.
(BBC film release)
Ronald Waldman writes on page 3
Contributors
Story and teleplay:
Iain
MacCormick
Director:
Cliff
Owen
Producer:
Felix
Jackson
Harry Lime:
Michael
Rennie
Hanna:
Mai
Zetterling
Prokrian:
George
Pastell
Paul:
Eric
Pohlmann
Colonel Howard:
Bud
Knapp
Sister:
Anne
Blake
Doctor:
Richard
Burrell
Arthur Shillings:
Rupert
Davies
: Faraway Look: 3: Island in the Panama Canal
Introduced by Peter Scott.At the point where the Panama Canal widens into the Gatun Lake is the Island of Barro Colorado. Here the Smithsonian Institution of Washington has a biological research station, and Peter Scott and Tony Soper were able to film coatis, peccaries, tapirs, sloths, a kinkajou, howler monkeys, a boa constrictor, a five-foot iguana lizard, and many interesting insects. They also made a trip up the Chagres river and filmed crocodiles, egrets, masked ducks, and jacanas.
Contributors
Presenter/filmmaker:
Peter
Scott
Filmmaker:
Tony
Soper
Editor:
John
Merritt
Producer:
Eileen
Molony
: Britain Overseas
Election Broadcast on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist PartyThe Rt. Hon. Selwyn Lloyd, C.B.E.. Q.C., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; The Rt. Hon. Alan Lennox-Boyd Secretary of State for the Colonies; The Earl of Home
Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations.
Contributors
Speaker:
The Rt. Hon. Selwyn
Lloyd
Speaker:
The Rt. Hon. Alan
Lennox-Boyd
: The Phil Silvers Show: Bilko Saves Ritzik's Marriage
Starring Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko.Bilko Saves Ritzik's Marriage ...in spite of determined opposition from Ritzik and his wife.
Contributors
Sergeant Bilko:
Phil
Silvers
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