Presented by Gordon Severn.
Previously shown in February 1964
Repeated Wed. and Thurs., 9.10 a.m.
(to 9.35)
Round arches, pointed arches, how they are constructed, and the materials that are used for them.
Introduced by Eric Simms.
BBC film for Schools
(Previously shown in February 1963)
(Repeated on Friday at 11.35 a.m.)
(to 9.58)
Water has severe limitations as a cleanser for it is a remarkable fact that there are many things which it cannot effectively wet. Gerd Sommerhoff explains how detergents, including soap facilitate wetting and so make cleansing easier.
For Schools
Previously shown in February 1964
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.35 a.m.
(to 10.20)
A sociology series.
How much advertising is there in Britain today? What is the justification for it? Does it make goods cheaper? What are the standards of advertisers and advertising agencies? How effective is it as a means of selling and what controls are there upon its use? These are some of the questions considered.
BBC film
Repeated on Wed. and Thurs. at 10.23 a.m. and on Wed. at 2.30 p.m.
(to 10.43)
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
BBC film
(to 11.00)
For centuries the world's greatest killing disease was malaria. Today, in many countries, this disease has been completely overcome, but control of disease creates new problems of increasing world population.
Introduced by Professor George Macdonald, Director of the Ross Institute at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
BBC film for Schools
Repeated on Wednesday at 12.0
(to 11.30)
For children of seven to nine.
Introduced by Tom Gibbs.
This programme is planned to provide practice in reading. It is intended for viewing only by those children who find reading difficult.
For Schools
(Repeated on Thursday at 9.38 a.m.)
(to 11.55)
gydag Owen Edwards.
Topical items in Welsh.
(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Holme Moss)
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
BBC film
(to 13.45)
Written by Norman Longmate.
It is not slum dwellers who make slums: it is slums that make slum-dwellers.
For Schools
(Previously shown in October 1962)
(Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.)
(to 14.25)
Introduced by Ray Alan
assisted, interrupted, and generally thwarted by Tich and Quackers with Sandra Chalmers.
A programme of comedy and puzzles.
A film from Germany.
Among the fascinating sights in many European countries are the huge storks' nests perching on top of the roofs and chimneys. How do the birds manage to balance their homes on the steep sloping tops of the buildings?
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 serial by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.
Gussie finds a temporary new home, and Alan learns some alarming news about a colleague.
Written by Marty Feldman and Barry Took.
Starring Hugh Griffith and Felix Aylmer
with Terence Alexander, Derek Bond, Helen Lindsay
and Anthony Woodruff, Betty England, Nicholas Young
in which Danny Kaye and his special guests, Gwen Verdon, The Clinger Sisters entertain to the music of Paul Weston and his Orchestra with The Tony Charmoli Dancers, Johnny Mann and his Singers.
(First transmission on BBC-2, July 13, 1964)
Written by Antony Jay.
The story of the men who made the first atomic weapon.
Taking part: Harold Agnew, Otto R. Frisch, Sam Goudsmit, Leslie R. Groves, Werner von Heisenberg, Fritz Houtermans, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Joseph Rotblat, Emilio Segre, Edward Teller, James Tuck, Carl von Weizsacker.
Presenting Paul Tortelier (cello) playing Bloch's Schelomo
with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Raymond Cohen
Conducted by Rudolf Kempe
The programme ends with Don Juan by Richard Strauss
Before an invited audience in the Fairfield Hall, Croydon.
followed by The Weather
A course in human biology.
Although Darwin's great book The Origin of Species is the foundation of our ideas on evolution he did not show how new species originate. The programme introduces modern ideas on the formation of new species and shows how these point the way to the fundamental concept of adaptive radiation.
Professor A. J. Cain, University of Manchester
A BBC Educational broadcast
Repeated next Saturday at 11.45 a.m.
