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: Watch with Mother: Picture Book
For the very youngVera McKechnie turns the pages and shows you how to make paper flags.
You need paper, thin sticks, paints, and glue
BBC film
(to 11.00)
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: Bank Holiday Grandstand
including Boxing, Racing, Swimming, AthleticsSee panel
: The Hoot'nanny Show
The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell, The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Jenny Johnson,Brett Stevens, Julie Felix
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: The Magic Bicycle
Children in Copenhagen travel on the opposite side of the road from us. Usually they ride their bicycles well, but this is what happens when a bicycle is badly treated. It's a magic bicycle, too!Commentary spoken by Peter Hawkins.
Previously shown on February 4
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: This Is Your Life - Donald Duck
You were born squawking and haven't stopped yet.Jiminy Cricket introduces his subject, but Donald Duck is as unpredictable as ever.
: Billy Smart's Circus
Under Europe's Biggest Big TopAn eggstraordinary Easter Eggstravaganza presenting the best in eggspertise.
Introduced by Harry Towb The Voice of the Egg
with Miss Cherrie Butlin Guest Ringmistress
Starring
Italy's King of Clowns
Tino Zacchini
India's Prince of Shadows
Prasanna Rao
accompanied by Edward Rubach
featuring
Menyus, The Clown on the Flying Trapeze
With the Four Flying Lunasz
Marion's Chimpanzees
The Trio Martini
Wire-walking to an incredible climax.
The De Riaz Flight
Acrobatics at the peak of the Big Top.
Spuggy and his Sausage Machine
The Doves of Desi
From Rome, a cloud of white birds.
Clown into Space
Which explains the hole in the canvas.
Ria and Romes
From Budapest, the originators of acrobatics on the high-speed revolving pole.
Billy Smart Jr. presents his new Fifteen-Elephant Finale
The Mike Sammes Singers
Billy Smart's Touring Show is appearing at Sheffield
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: The Lucy Show: Viv Moves Out
A comedy film series of family life with never a dull moment.Starring Lucille Ball
with Vivian Vance, Gale Gordon, Candy Moore, Jimmy Garrett, Ralph Hart
After a difference of opinion.... Viv Moves Out ...and Lucy jumps straight out of the frying pan into the fire!
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: Panorama
The Window on the WorldIntroduced by Richard Dimbleby with reports on People - Places - Problems in the news from Panorama's regular team of commentators Robin Day and Michael Barratt, Michael Chariton, Roderick MacFarquhar, John Morgan.
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: The News
: Detective: The Moving Toyshop
Rupert Davies as Maigret introduces:Professor Gervase Fen played by Richard Wordsworth in Edmund Crispin's "The Moving Toyshop", adapted by John Hopkins.
A poet finds a body in a toyshop. But when he returns with the police next morning, the body has disappeared... and so has the toyshop.
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: National Ballroom Queen Contest
Come Dancing tonight at the grand finals of this annual event at the Lyceum in the Strand, London.Introduced by Peter West with Judith Chalmers.
Latin-American Demonstration by Bob Burgess and Doreen Freeman
and featuring the 'last chance' heat in the Evening News Old-Time Amateur Championships.
Dancing to the music of Denny Boyce and his Orchestra
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