25 March 1939
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times March 17, 1939.
- 11.00-12.00 Demonstration Film
- 15.00-16.15 'The Sleeping Princess'
- The Vic-Wells Ballet (under the direction of Ninette de Valois) present a ballet based on the fairy tale by Perrault. Reproduced by Nicola Sergueeff after the original choreography by Marius Petipa. Music by Tchaikovsky. Costumes designed by Nadia Benois. With Margot Fonteyn as The Aurora, June Brae as The Lilac Fairy, and Robert Helpmann as Prince Charming. Also Mary Honer, Elizabeth Miller, Pamela May, Ursula, Moreton, Joy Newton, Julia Farron, Harold Turner, Frederick Ashton, William Chappell, Frank Staff, John Greenwood, Bruce Dargaval, and other members of the Company. The Lord Mayor's Boy Players, the Augmented BBC Television Orchestra, leader Boris Pecker, conducted by Constant Lambert. Narration by Elizabeth Cowell. Television presentation by D. H. Munro
- 20.00 National Programme
- (sound only)
- 21.00 Caberet
- with Paul Berny, French juggler; A. C. Astor, ventriloquist; Trudi Binar, Continental songs; Ruth and Billy Ambrose, African dancers. Production by Arthur Ozmond
- 21.30 News Film
- Gaumont-British News
- 21.40 'Anglais-Francais'
- a brush between Gallic wit and English humour, in which well-known personalities from both sides of the Channel show their knowledge of the life and customs of each other's country. The questions will be aaked and the peace preserved by E. M. Stephan. Presentation by Andrew Miller Jones
- 22.10 Cartoon Film
- Joie de Vivre
- 22.15 'This Will Make You Wild!'
- Eric Wild and his Band, with Alice Mann, obstructed by Leslie Mitchell
- 22.45-23.05 News Bulletin
