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)
gydag Owen Edwards.
Topical items introduced by Owen Edwards in Welsh.
For the very young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
BBC film
All through the school year BBC Television broadcasts special programmes to schools and technical colleges. Today, while schools are on holiday, Out of School presents two of the programmes designed for primary schools.
1.45 Merry Go Round: A Story about Milk: Part 3
A series for children of seven to nine.
In two earlier programmes Philip, a town boy, has been visiting a dairy farm. Today he goes off to the market and then to the creamery, to see how cheese is made.
Introduced by Tom Gibbs with Mr. and Mrs. Stone and family, Mr. C. M. Hares, Kenneth Watson, Danny Grover, and John Howard
Story by Barbara Willard.
Previously shown in October
2.5 Men in History: A.D. 1964
Programmes for primary schools designed to introduce children to archaeology and history.
This programme shows how archaeologists study the past through the things left behind from previous times, and imagines two 'space' archaeologists a thousand years hence digging up a small house in London, which had been destroyed in 1964.
Introduced by Brian Hope-Taylor.
Previously shown in September
(to 14.25)
A film based on the story by the Brothers Grimm.
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
and the fairest in the land was, of course, the Princess Snow White.
Spoken by John Rees.
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News and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Richard Baker
followed by The Weather
The panel tries to identify well-known personalities in a game of question, answer, deduction, and intuition.
The Panel: Drusilla Beyfus, Ted Moult, Alistair Sampson
Chairman, Terence Brady
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
With Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Christopher Brasher, Julian Pettifer, Cathal O'Shannon, Magnus Magnusson.
A series by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.
David gets an unexpected Christmas present: Ian finds that Emma's warning was justified-and Adrian calls on Iris and Stan.
A kaleidoscopic portrait of Hollywood's fabulous past and exciting present.
Casual and unpretentious, and a traveller along many a road with his adopted father Bob Hope. He is in fact Bing Crosby, a star who has made every facet of show biz his personal prize.
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in which Danny Kaye and his special guests, Terry-Thomas, Marilyn Lovell entertain to the music of Paul Weston and his Orchestra with The Tony Charmoli Dancers.
Playwright Charles Wood's view of the English seaside holiday.
Last summer BBC film cameras visited Blackpool, Pwllheli Holiday Camp, Brighton, Eastbourne, Margate, Southsea, and the Isle of Wight.
Commentary written and narrated by Charles Wood
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with Jonathan Miller
Including:
Dwight MacDonald, the American critic talking to Robert Kee
Sandy Claus
by Barry Humphries.
and
Father Christmas
as seen by the French anthropologist Claud Levi-Strauss.