A visit to the remote Fair Isle, north of Orkney, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the North Sea.
Introduced by David Attenborough.
BBC film for Schools
Repeated on Friday at 11.35 a.m.
(to 10.00)
Gerd Sommerhoff is back again to discover some of the interesting scientific facts about living things. Why is it that even small changes of climate may make life impossible? Why are living things so dependent on one another?
For Schools
Previously shown in April 1963
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.35 a.m.
(to 10.22)
For the very young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in the songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
BBC film
(to 11.00)
Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler.
For Schools
Previously shown on Monday
(to 11.25)
A series for younger children.
John Langstaff, with a group of children from two primary schools in Surrey, suggests ways in which simple folk songs can form the basis of group music-making, using voices and percussion instruments.
For Schools
Repeated on Thursday at 9.40 a.m.
(to 11.55)
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
BBC film
(to 13.45)
Written and produced by Peter Scroggs.
BBC film for Schools
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.
(to 14.25)
A thrilling new film series about the adventures of two dare-devil parachutists.
Ted and Jim set out to discover the whereabouts of a crashed aircraft in order to retrieve some important papers.
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A fortnightly programme in which pictures speak louder than words.
Introduced for deaf children by Pat Keysell.
Including:
A cartoon story film, Paper sculpture and Papering a Wall
with Matyelok Gibbs, Ursula Jones, Laurence Keane
A daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Corbet Woodall.
Followed by The Weather
by T.C. Thomas.
A look at life in a railway signal-box somewhere in rural Wales.
In which Davy's fortunes 'go to the dogs'.
(First transmission on March 12)
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
With Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Christopher Brasher, Julian Pettifer, Brian Redhead.
A series by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.
Alan finds material for a feature, and Vivien has a sudden change of mind.
Written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney.
[Starring] Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton
Starring Tom Ewell, Barbara Rush
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A television version of Verdi's opera based on "La Dame aux Camelias" by Dumas.
Adapted by Peter Ebert from Edward J. Dent's English translation.
With Mary Costa as Marguerite Gautier
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Erich Gruenberg
Conducted by Bryan Balkwill
(Bryan Balkwill conducts by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden; David Bowman. Howell Glynne, and John Wakefield appear by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
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followed by The Weather
Programmes for parents about children.
A BBC Educational broadcast
First shown on Sunday
