For the very young
(to 11.00)
gydag Owen Edwards.
Topical items in Welsh introduced by Owen Edwards.
(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Holme Moss, Wenvoe West)
(to 13.30)
with Setsuko Ito.
Today: The Special Sparrow
A film series based on stories from the American past.
Starring Flip Mark and Richard Ever
Andrew Jackson at the age of thirteen joined his older brother Robert as a volunteer in the American revolutionary army fighting against the British.
First shown on BBC-2
The adventures of the boy detective and his dog.
The new star draws closer. Will it hit the earth?
News and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Corbet Woodall with Zena Skinner.
Followed by The Weather
A new film series about human behaviour by Hans Hass.
Why do we read so much? What drives human beings to the remotest parts of the world, even into outer space? Curiosity leads us forward, but also some say towards destruction. Is it a good or a bad human characteristic?
Presented in collaboration with the South German and the Austrian Television Services
From the West
Series created by Brian Hayles.
Ted Dawson is in a quandary, and Bob McIver forces the issue.
From the Midlands
A new look at Britain's best-sellers.
Discs - Stars - News from this week's Top Twenty.
Introduced tonight by Peter Murray.
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Directed by Johnny Pearson
by Vince Powell and Harry Driver.
[Starring] Gerald Harper, Juliet Harmer
with Jack May
Also starring Peter Jeffrey, Annette Andre
The world of beauty contestants and physical culture experts is the strange setting for a plot to destroy the human race.
(Peter Jeffrey is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
The musical world of Dusty Springfield.
With special guest Peter Cook
The voices of Madeline Bell, Lesley Duncan, Barbara Moore
See page 45
An outline of H.G. Wells 1866-1946.
"If life is not good enough for you, then change it" (Autobiography)
"That's you, steady and long and piling up, then... whoosh" (Tono-Bungay)
Herbert George Wells, born in Bromley of poor parents 100 years ago on September 21, influenced a whole generation - with his science fiction, novels, prophecy, journalism, popular history, and ideas for world reform.
Sarah Miles, Murray Melvin play his fictional characters
Kenneth Farrington speaks his words
His energy and influence are described by Earl Attlee, John Braine, Vincent Brome, Michael Foot, M.P., Mme. Odette Keun, Patrick Moore, Frank Swinnerton, A.J.P. Taylor; his sons: Professor G.P. Wells, Sc.D., F.R.S., Frank Wells; and a draper, a citizen of Bromley, two science students, a zoologist
Written and directed by Christopher Burstall.
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Introduced by Cliff Michelmore with Kenneth Allsop.
Round 24 hours with Ian Trethowan, Robin Day, Robert McKenzie
Round 24,000 miles with Fyfe Robertson, Julian Pettifer, Michael Barratt, Michael Parkinson
Written by Emile de Harven.
Follow Up Your French in a twenty-five episode thriller serial.
A headland, a beach, and a villa called St. Marc-the black sun shines again.
With Monique Messine as Catherine Leger, Michel Forain as Jean Dacier
and Gisele Grimm, Gerard Buhr
(First shown on BBC-2)
(Repeated next Sunday at 11.30 a.m.)
