Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
BBC film
(to 11.00)
The second day's play at The Oval.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Peter Hawkins speaks the voices
Maria Bird writes the songs and music
BBC film
(to 13.50)
A further visit to The Oval.
See also BBC-2
(to 16.15)
Holiday campers meet in an all-in contest of skill and courage.
Guests artists: Jimmy Logan, Chas McDevitt and Shirley Douglas, Don Gordon
Your host, David Coleman
From Butlin's Holiday Camp, Ayr
(Jimmy Logan is appearing at The King's Theatre, Glasgow. Chas McDevitt, Shirley Douglas, and Don Gordon are appearing at The Gaiety Theatre, Ayr)
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The closing overs of the second day's play at The Oval, followed by a summary.
A daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Michael Aspel.
followed by The Weather
The old oak tree, for years the village meeting-place and notice board, has to be cut down because it has become a traffic hazard.
Commentary written by Desmond Hawkins
spoken by Paul Rogers
Music composed and conducted by Sidney Sager
Played by the BBC West of England Players
From the West
First transmission on May 20, 1963
The unwilling gardner-a jay plants an acorn, seed of the doomed oak
What does it mean when a mighty oak tree, known to generations of villagers simply and affectionately as 'The Major' must die? What does it mean to the people who live nearby and who have used it for many, many years as both a meeting place and a noticeboard? What does it mean, too, to the creatures who live both within it and on its leafy branches? Such is the story behind the BBC's Natural History Unit documentary The Major which will be retold tonight.
John Burton and Christopher Parsons wrote the script before actually finding their tree-but after an extensive search the Forestry Commission did locate one which satisfied almost all their requirements. It stood near the Speech House in the Forest of Dean. Christopher Parsons, who also produced this film, and cameraman William Morris, visited ' the Major' over the months for an entire year recording the various activities: the Gloucestershire Morris Men dancing beneath the branches at Whitsun, a village cricket match in the next field and, finally, the felling.
Meanwhile two other cameramen, Eric Ashby and Leslie Jackman, were filming other sequences. While Ashby concentrated on small mammals and birds Jackman filmed creatures ranging from tiny gall-wasps to large caterpillars.
by Charles Dickens
Dramatised in thirteen episodes by Constance Cox
In which revelations are made and justice is done-or very nearly done.
(First transmission on April 12)
direct from the White City Stadium, London.
Highlights from the first day of this two-day international athletic match.
Organised by the B.A.A.B in conjunction with the News of the World
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Starring Roy Kinnear
featuring Anne Cunningham
with John Junkin, Maria Lennard, Sidonie Bond
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A film series starring Nick Adams as Nick Alexander, John Larkin as Mark Grainger.
Special guest star, Steve Lawrence
and Richard Erdman, Robert F. Simon
Nick is sentenced to ten days' imprisonment because he refuses to reveal the source of a story he wrote alleging negligence on the part of a hospital.
Sweden's Italia Prize film by Lennart Ehrenborg.
English version spoken by John Glen.
A picture of the life led in seventeenth-century Rome by Sweden's most colourful and controversial Queen.
