to put you in the picture with news from the fashion front.
Produced by Rosemary Hill who writes on page 8
(See columns 3 and 4)
On the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the amalgamation of the Royal Engineers and the Corps of Sappers and Miners, BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras are present at a special demonstration before Her Majesty of modern bridging and assault engineering.
At 3.15 this afternoon
A telerecording of part of today's ceremony can be seen at 10.45
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.15)
Meet the Penguins: Flying Feathers
Story by J. M. Smith Wright.
(A BBC telerecording of the broadcast on November 3, 1955)
Crackerjack
BBC Children's Television Theatre presents Crackerjack
[Starring] Eamonn Andrews
with Norman Wisdom, Joe Baker and Jack Douglas, Mr. Grumble, Eddie Mendoza and his Band
and "Double or Drop".
(Eddie Mendoza is at the Butlin's Ocean Hotel, Brighton)
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This evening, at a meeting in the County Hall, London, arranged by the principal organisations supporting the North Atlantic Treaty and British-American Co-operation, BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras join the distinguished audience for speeches of farewell given by:
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, The Rt. Hon. Selwyn Lloyd, C.B.E., T.D., Q.C., M.P.
The Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition, The Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell, C.B.E., M.P.
The Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther, C.B., D.S.M.
Chairman, The Rt. Hon. the Chairman of the L.C.C., Mrs. Helen C. Bentwich, J.P.
People, events, comments of today.
Introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.
by Michael Pertwee and Roland Pertwee.
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A series of wild-life programmes introduced by Peter Scott.
Peter Scott and John Clegg, of the Haslemere Museum, examine the minute organisms of pond life with the aid of a microprojector. You can see clearly strange and fearsome animals like the rotifer and the mayfly nymph and may observe the heartbeats of a water-flea.
From the BBC's West of England television studio
Spotlighting news, views, and personalities from the world of sport introduced by Peter Dimmock.
including:
Association Football: Manchester City v. Manchester United
The second half of tonight's floodlit match between the F.A. Cup winners and the Football League champions for the Football Association Charity Shield.
From Maine Road, Manchester.
featuring Ronnie Carroll, Peter Jones and Jack Farr with The Mark Stuart Dance Group, The George Mitchell Singers.
A report for television.
It is estimated that each month two thousand girls arrive in London in search of a job. Sometimes they come alone - with no knowledge of London and no friends.
Tonight's "Special Enquiry" sets out to answer the questions: "Why do they come?" and "What do they find when they get here?".
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visits the headquarters of the Corps of Royal Engineers at Chatham.
A BBC telerecording of part of this afternoon's broadcast.
Followed by The Weather
and
11.0 The Rt. Hon. Selwyn Lloyd C.B.E., T.D., Q.C., M.P., Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs broadcasts a message to mark the eleventh anniversary of the United Nations.
(Sound only)
(The recorded broadcast in the Home Service at 9.15 p.m.)
(to 23.05)
First transmitted in 1956, Robert Reid reports on the growing trend of young girls who leave their industrial cities or rural villages behind in search of a better life in London. Show more