A course in human biology.
Ageing is an increased liability to die. What is the reason for the general loss of vigour and why are we not at least potentially immortal?
Dr. Alex Comfort
A BBC Educational broadcast
Repeated on Tuesday at 11.15 p.m.
Wir sprechen Deutsch
A course of thirty lessons for beginners.
Christmas Eve in the Peters' flat.
with Heidi Treutler, Dieter Geissler
Introduced by Sabine Michael and Paul Hansard.
A BBC Educational broadcast
(Repeated on Thursday at 11.5 p.m.)
Public Service announcements.
See panel on facing page
Details of next week's Grandstand are shown on page 71
Grandstand
12.45 to 5.15
Introduced by David Coleman
Autopoint from Hampshire at 12.55, 1.40, and 3.20: British Army Motoring Association v. London Motor Club
A motorised point-to-point over rough country by permission of the Commandant, Army M.T. School, Col. J. W. Hilder
Commentator, Raymond Baxter
Television presentation by John Vernon
Racing from Newbury
1.30 Nether Wallop (Amateur Riders) Handicap Steeplechase over 3 miles
2.10 Hennessy Golf Cup over 3 miles, 2 furlongs, 82 yards
2.40 Berkshire Handicap Hurdle Race over 2 miles
Commentators, Peter O'Sullevan and Clive Graham
Television presentation by Mary Evans
Amateur Boxing from the Town Hall, Bishop Auckland at 2.20. 2.50, and 4.15: North Eastern Counties A.B.A. Inter-Divisional Match
Commentator, Harry Carpenter
Television presentation by Jack Harrison
Ice Hockey from the Empire Pool, Wembley at 3.45 and 4.25: Great Britain v. France
World Championship qualifying match (1st leg)
Commentator, Alan Weeks
Television presentation by A. P. Wilkinson
Sports news service throughout the afternoon
At 4.55 Results Service, including: Racing summaries, Classified football results, Rugby Union and Rugby League results
At 7.0 on BBC-2 Match of the Day
A new disc - a Hit or a Miss?
Comments and opinions on the latest pop releases.
This week's panel: Diahann Carroll, Vic Lewis, Peter Murray, Sandie Shaw
In the chair, David Jacobs
Written by David Ellis
A series created by Ted Willis
Starring Jack Warner
A fire-raiser is at work in Dock Green. One victim considers that the police are deliberately failing to arrest the culprit.
A Western film series.
Starring Jeff Hunter as the young Texas lawyer who finds action and adventure in his fight for individual rights and frontier justice.
and Jack Elam as Marshal George Taggart
Temple is tricked into promoting a boxing match which he thinks will be a fair fight. But a certain young lady has other ideas.
Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds
by arrangement with Stanley and Michael Joseph
Presenting:
Alfred Marks, Mark time for mirth
Eve Boswell, The scintillating songstress
Dickie Arnold and Dottie, A dramatic divertissement
Les Croques Messieurs, Frolics francais
Joe and Blackie, Canine capers
The Bel Cantos, On wings of song
The Novaks, Artistically acrobatic
Dougie Squires with Anna Sharkey and Pat Goh, A beau and his belles
and Jill Huskisson, Pauline Sansby, Pat Taylor, Tom Harrison
Chairman, Leonard Sachs
(Dickie Arnold and Dottie are appearing at the City Varieties Theatre, Leeds)
See page 7
A film series.
Starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, Gig Young, Gladys Cooper, Robert Coote as The Rogues
with guest stars, Suzy Parker, John Williams
Alec reluctantly undertakes a mission in Rio for Inspector Briscoe of Scotland Yard but hopes to make a comfortable profit on the side.
Written by Correlli Barnett.
A twenty-six-part history of the 1914-1918 War.
The needs of war bring about a social and technological revolution on the home fronts. In Britain Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions, faces the colossal task of modernising British industry.
With the voices of: Sir Michael Redgrave as Narrator, Sir Ralph Richardson as Haig, Emlyn Williams as Lloyd George; Marius Goring, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw.
Theme music by Wilfred Josephs
Played by the BBC Northern Orchestra
Conducted by George Hurst
Series produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Commission
A BBC Tonight production
(First transmission on BBC-2, July 18)
And a way of looking at the world
One eye open wide; one eye closed; And between the two the picture gets composed
[Starring] David Frost, P.J. Kavanagh, William Rushton
with Josephine Blake, Eleanor Bron, John Bird, Doug Fisher, Roy Hudd, Tommy Trinder, David Walsh and visitors.
