SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 172

Report by Alice Fay The usual prizes were offered for a sample day's programme from commercial television stations operated by any of the following: Manchester Guardian, Daily Mirror, Times, Daily Express, Daily Telegraph, Daily Worker, Daily Mail.

I was disappointed that no entrant produced a programme which would outdo the B.B.C. by making me want to stay at home to see it. Do all competitors dislike T.V. so much that they are unable to imagine a programme worth seeing? Frances Collingwood wins first prize (£3) for a parody of the sort of programme viewers are supposed to like. R. M. Jerram gets the second prize (£2) with a programme which seems designed to attract stodgy-minded and parochial readers to the Manchester Guardian while getting back some of the cost from advertisers.

(FRANCES COLLINGWOOD)

" Daily Mirror L15-1.30 p.m. BASKET BALL

BRIXTON BELLES V. NORWOOD NYMPHS

A friendly game between picked teams of Glamour Girls at Windsor Great Park. Commentators : Michael Wilding and James Mason (assisted by Portland).

3.15 p.m. CHILDREN'S T.V. • Twenty easy ways of Murdering Mum, demonstrated by your favourite Strip-Cartooneri, " The Bully Kids." 4-4.15 p.m. " HELLO MISS SUNBEAM ! " An all-singing, all-dancing film from Hollywood.

4.30-6.30 p.m, WHIST

SHOREDITCH SHOPPERS V. ROTHERHITHE RETAILERS

A friendly contest between picked teams of ordinary Mums and Dads. Commentators : Wilfred Pickles and Christopher Stone. 7.15 p.m. NEWSREEL Including close-ups of all recent stranglers and their victims, movements of the royal family and all, your favourite film stars. 8.30 p.m. INTERVIEWS WITH FOOTBALL POOL WINNERS Commere : Margaret Lockwood. 9 p.m. " LURED TO HER DEATH " A serial play in 6 episodes. Part 2—" Enter Mr. Beautiful." 9.20 p.m. " A MIRROR A DAY " Sixty Minutes of Unique Entertainment from The Palace, Walham Green, with

' Stop Press and His Eccentric Organ

The Gabrielle Angel Choir Ches Nutt, the Welsh Comic (" Hitch 'em Up, Grandpa ") The Straw-Suckers Rectangular Dancers and MO, the Mirror Man.

(CAPT. R. M. JERRAM)

" Manchester Guardian " 6 p.m. NEWSREEL The latest pictorial reports from those for whom the events behind the news are more important than the news itself.

6.25 p.m. Adverts. 6.30 p.m. " THE CORRELATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT FACTOR AND THE I.Q."

A psychologist, an educationist and a social scientist interview some of this year's Manchester Grammar School university award winners, and conclude with a discussion to establish the causes of intellectual superiority. 7.30 p.m. THE HALLE ORCHESTRA Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

Barbirolli. (By arrangement with Littlewood's Pools, Ltd.) 8.0 p.m. AMERICAN MONOLOGUE Mr. Alistair Cooke, our well-known American correspondent, once again brightens the hearthside with a comparison of the winkle-eating that he remembers in his Lancashire boyhood and the addiction of the modern New Yorker to popcorn. 8.15 p.m. PUBLIC DEBATE IN THE FREE TRADE HALL Mr. Dingle Foot, Lady Violet Bonham Carter, Lady Megan • Lloyd George and Lord Teviot debate "The Future of Liberalism." 9.15 p.m. " RETURN 'TO BRADFORD " A new drama by Mr. J. B. Priestley, especially written for television. 11.0 p.m. Adverts, followed by News Summary. Conducted by Sir John