08 May 1939
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times May 5, 1939.
- 11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film
- 15.00-16.30 'London Wall'
- a play by John Van Druten. Cast: Birkinshaw - Lewis Stringer, Eric Brewer - Martin Walker, Miss Hooper - Lucille Lisle, Miss Janus - Barbara Couper, Pat Milligan - Pamela Standish, Miss Willesden - Margaret Watson, Hec Hammond - Desmond Tester, Miss Bufton - Sondra Lawson, Mr. Walker - Aubrey Mather (by permission of Stephen Mitchell). Production by Michael Barry
- 20.15 National Programme
- (sound only)
- 21.00 Starlight
- Yvonne Arnaud
- 21.10 'Salute To America'
- A programme in which the contemporary American scene will be described in speech and picture. Sir Frederick Whyte, K.C.S.I., Director of the English Speaking Union, will contribute a portrait of President Roosevelt and will introduce among others J. B. Priestley, Susan Ertz, S. P. B. Mais, Cedric Belfrage, Graham Hutton, and A. Lloyd James. Documentary film from America and pictures by contemporary American artists will supplement personal reactions to the New Deal, American literature and language, the mixture of races, and the varied scene which is America. Presentation by Mary Adams
- 21.45 News Film
- Gaumont-British News
- 21.55 Boxing
- A demonstration of black and white Boxing by Jack 'Dusty' Miller and Company Sergt. Major Wheeler of the Army School of Physical Training at Aldershot. Commentary by Major D. S. Lister, Amateur Heavyweight Champion, 1925
- 22.15-22.30 Bridge
- A demonstration by a team of international women players—Miss Elizabeth Corke, Mrs. Pat Cohen, Mrs. Neil Furse, Miss Kathleen Salmons. The experiment conducted by Hubert Phillips
