04 September 1939
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times September 1, 1939.
This was the planned schedule for this day, but no Television was broadcast after September 1st., 1939, until after the war ended in 1946
- 11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film
- 15.00-16.15 'A Cup Of Happiness'
- Leon M. Lion in a Devonshire comedy by Eden Phillpotts. Cast: Mrs. Bessie Veryard of Willowbrook Farm - Amy Veness, Adam Veryard, her elder son - Roger Livesey, Tom Veryard, her younger son - Lewis Stringer, Rose Veryard, her daughter - Janet Johnson (by permission of Messrs. Payne-Jennings and Killick), Tobias Gigg, her head man - Leon M. Lion, Milly Venn, her dairymaid - Winifred Hindle (by permission of Gilbert Miller and Jack Buchanan), Tod Bartlett, her huckster - John Boxer, Willie Yaw, a wise woman - Margaret Nicholls, Jonathan Berry, late huntsman of the East Devon Foxhounds - Gilbert Davis, Jemima Didham, dairymaid at Hedge Barton Farm - Kay Bannerman. The acdon takes place during high summer on Willowbrook Farm at High Holberton, Devon. Settings by Barry Learoyd. Production by Michael Barry
- 20.00 National Programme
- (sound only)
- 21.00 Beatrice Lillie
- At the piano, Sam Walsh
- 21.10 Speaking Personally
- Dr. Edvard Benes will face the television cameras for the first time
- 21.20 News Film
- British Movietonews
- 21.30 'Waiting For A Lady'
- With Seymour Hicks
- 21.50 'Nancy's Puppets'
- Presented by Nancy Worsfold and Elspeth Holland, accompanied on the recorder by Marjorie Gabain in Pyramus and Thisbe from A Midsummer-Night's Dream
- 22.05 Cartoon Film
- The Grasshopper and the Ants
- 22.10-22.20 Picture Stories
- Love in Tonga, and The Seventh Man, two picture stories by Robert Gibbings
