15 April 1939
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times April 7, 1939.
- 11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film
- 15.00 Francis Redvers Miniature Theatre
- Puppets make grand television material, and this afternoon a new troupe makes its debut. There are two points of interest about it: the figures are exceptionally small, some being no more than seven inches in height ; and Francis Redvers manipulates them by himself, despite the fact that in one scene more than half a dozen puppets are on the stage at the same time. Jan Bussell, an expert on puppets himself (viewers have seen his Hogarth troupe several times) will be in the control room
- 15.10 News Film
- Gaumont-British News
- 15.20 Joan Collier
- in songs. At the piano, Evel Burns
- 15.30 Cartoon Film
- Wise Little Hen
- 15.35-16.00 'The Van Dyck'
- Tom Walls in a one-act comedy by Cosmo Gordon Lennox. Cast: Arthur Blair Woldingham- Tom Walls, John Peters- Campbell Gullan, Dr. Porter- Donald Findlay. Presentation by Harry Pringle
- 20.00 Regional Programme
- (sound only)
- 20.50 Interval
- 21.00 Henry Sherek's Chester Hale Girls
- and Vera Haal from the Dorchester Hotel
- 21.15 Cabaret Cartoons
- Cartoons by Harry Rutherford. Presentation by Cecil Madden
- 21.30 News Film
- British Movietonews
- 21.40 Catch-As-Catch-Can
- A demonstration of wrestling between Harry Anaconda and Dave Armstrong. Described by E. R. Voigt
- 22.00 Cartoon Film
- Blue Rhythm
- 22.05 'The Almost Perfect Murder'
- A 'Telecrime' by Mileson Horton. With J. B. Rowe, Eric Maturin, Franklyn Bellamy, Bryan Powley, Frank Foster, Edmund Phelps. Production by Stephen Harrison. Viewers will be given sufficient evidence to enable them to solve the problem that confronts Inspect Holt. This programme will be repeated on Friday, April 21
- 22.20-22.40 News Bulletin
