18 April 1939
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times April 14, 1939.
- 11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film
- 15.00 Henry-Sherek's Chester Hale Girls
- and Vera Haal from the Dorchester Hotel
- 15.10 Cartoon Film
- Playful Pluto
- 15.15 'In The Barber's Chair'
- No. 4 (Details as Monday, 21.00)
- 15.25 News Film
- British Movietonews
- 15.35-16.00 'The Coffin'
- A comedy in one act by John Taylor. Cast: Sam Hubble- Edgar K. Bruce, Herbert Crabtree- Mark Daly, Will Endicott- Ivor Barnard, Lizzie Hubble- Olive Walter. Production by Fred O'Donovan
- 19.45 National Programme
- (sound only)
- 21.00 'Coliseum Night'
- (by courtesy of Sir Oswald Stoll) The first half of the current Variety programme including Paul Berny, Bertha Wilmott, Edgley and Dawe, Yvonne Arnaud. Televised direct from the London Coliseum. The first outside broadcast from the Coliseum took place on January 13 when Doorlays Christmas Rocket was televised. It was so successful that the television mobile unit now pays a visit every month to the theatre to pick up an hour of the Variety programme. Three cameras are used, and close-ups bring the stage so near that the quality of the transmission is almost equal to that from the studio
- 22.00 News Film
- Gaumont-British News
- 22.10 'From The Tree'
- A programme designed to show three attitudes to wood—scientific, artistic, utilitarian. The contributors will include Mary Field, Polly Hill Clarke, and Marjorie Abbatt. Presentation by Mary Adams ;22.40-23.00 News Bulletin
