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What is streamlining? How does a parachute work? In this first programme Gerd Sommerhoff answers these and other questions about the properties of the air around us.
For Schools
Previously shown in September 1964
Repeated on Wednesday at 11.38 a.m.
(to 10.20)

Contributors

Presenter:
Gerd Sommerhoff
Producer:
Lawrie Lawler
Producer:
Geoffrey Hall

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 13.45)

Contributors

Narrator/Script, music, and settings:
Maria Bird
Puppeteer:
Audrey Atterbury
Puppeteer:
Molly Gibson
Singer:
Gladys Whitred

by Ben Jonson.
Adapted and produced by Michael Simpson.
Introduced by Geoffrey Whitehead.
For Schools
(Repeated on Wednesday at 11.5 a.m.)
(to 14.35)

Contributors

Author:
Ben Jonson
Adapted by/Producer:
Michael Simpson
Presenter:
Geoffrey Whitehead
Designer:
Stuart Walker
Volpone:
Clive Revill
Mosca:
Eric Thompson
Voltore:
Alan MacNaughtan
Corbaccio:
Sydney Bromley
Corvino:
Martin Matthews
Nano:
Tommy Reynolds
Gregory:
Harry Dillon

Tich and Quackers set out to conquer space assisted by Ray Alan and land successfully at The Winter Gardens Ballroom, Weston-super-Mare.
With Tony Hart, Mari Griffith, Jerry Allen
Guest artist, George Meaton

Contributors

Presenter/Ventriloquist:
Ray Alan
Artist:
Tony Hart
Hostess/Singer:
Mari Griffith
Musician:
Jerry Allen
Impressionist:
George Meaton
Producer:
Stan Parkinson

The panel tries to identify well-known personalities in a game of question, answer, deduction, and intuition.
The Panel: Drusilla Beyfus, Ted Moult, Fyfe Robertson
Chairman, Kenneth Horne

Contributors

Panellist:
Drusilla Beyfus
Panellist:
Ted Moult
Panellist:
Fyfe Robertson
Chairman:
Kenneth Horne
Designer:
Luciana Arrighi
Director:
Mark Patterson
Producer:
John Irwin

A series about England and the English.

Of all the lovely small towns and villages in the Cotswolds, Chipping Campden is among the least spoiled. But its serenity is subject to many of the tensions of the 1960s.
First shown in the Midlands and the West on January 13

Contributors

Directed and produced by:
Edmund Marshall

Constantin gets back into harness... Prescott's reunion takes an unexpected turn.

Contributors

Producer:
Morris Barry
Director:
Bill Sellars
Sparks:
Raymond Llewellyn
Jimmy:
Brian Peck
Prescott:
Frederick Piper
Caroline Petrakos:
Ann Firbank
Constantin Petrakos:
Henry Gilbert
Sir George Strudwick:
John Barron
Rachel Stein:
Zeynep Tarimer
Paul Sabin:
William Dexter
Martine:
Margaret Nolan
Barman:
Raymond Thomson
Colin Gage:
Paul Grist
Cardside:
Bruno Barnabe
Janet Redell:
Nan Marriott-Watson
Anne Faulkner:
Ellen McIntosh
John:
Christopher Tranchell
Alexa:
Yvette Rees
Jeremy Quest:
Hugh Latimer

says Michael Bentine
A second spin of the cube we live on.
echoed by Clive Dunn, Leon Thau and Joe Gibbons
endorsed by John Mulgrew, Sid Dellar, Sydney Dobson, Derek Martin, John Pollock, Freddie Powell, Andre Cameron and Deryck Guyler
Devised and written by Michael Bentine and John Law.

Contributors

Devised and written by:
Michael Bentine
Devised and written by:
John Law
Musical Direction:
Harry Rabinowitz
Producer:
John Street
Comedian:
Michael Bentine
[Actor]:
Clive Dunn
[Actor]:
Leon Thau
[Actor]:
Joe Gibbons
[Actor]:
John Mulgrew
[Actor]:
Sid Dellar
[Actor]:
Sydney Dobson
[Actor]:
Derek Martin
[Actor]:
John Pollock
[Actor]:
Freddie Powell
[Actor]:
Andre Cameron
[Actor]:
Deryck Guyler

by William Emms.

Starring John Robinson and Oliver Reed
with Michael Hawkins
Guest stars, Archie Duncan, Glynn Edwards, Kevin Stoney, Margery Withers

Contributors

Writer:
William Emms
Producer:
John Robins
Director:
Paul Bernard
Boy:
Sean Tresilian
Mollie:
Annest Williams
Dr. Richard Franklin:
Oliver Reed
Philip Boult:
Michael Hawkins
John:
Terry Palmer
Julie:
Vivienne Dodds
Plowden:
Glynn Edwards
Winthrop:
Kevin Stoney
Health Officer:
Richard Mathews
Miss Flint:
Margery Withers
Mrs. Tennant:
Mary Holder
Dromble:
Archie Duncan
Sir Michael Gerrard:
John Robinson
Chairman:
Edward Rees

A BBC film by Denis Postle.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a university unique in the world. and America's global supremacy depends on it.
This film takes a close look at America's number one school for its billion-dollar science and technology dream-world.
See page 31

Contributors

Producer:
Denis Postle

Menuhin conducts Bartok
Yehudi Menuhin rehearses and performs the first movement of Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra.
with the Bath Festival Orchestra
Leader, Robert Masters
and discusses his role as conductor with Peter Hall, Anthony Burgess and David Wynne.

Contributors

Violinist/orchestra conductor:
Yehudi Menuhin
Musicians:
The Bath Festival Orchestra
[Orchestra] leader:
Robert Masters
Speaker:
Peter Hall
Speaker:
Anthony Burgess
Speaker:
David Wynne
Producer:
Francis Coleman

BBC One London

About BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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