(Shown on Monday and Wednesday)
(to 9.35)
gydag Owen Edwards.
Topical items in Welsh.
(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Holme Moss, Wenvoe West)
(to 13.25)
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
BBC film
(to 13.53)
A reminiscence in five parts by J.B. Priestley first broadcast last year to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Shown in two instalments for Schools
Part 3: The Dark Horizon June 4 - July 10
Part 4: The Throbbing Sky July 10 - September 6
Part 5: The Private Victory September 6 - December 31
The programme written and narrated by J.B. Priestley.
Prologue written by John Terraine read by Robert Harris
(Shown on BBC-2)
(to 15.27)
by Bertha Upton
With Dilys Hamlett.
Adapted for television by Joanne Symons.
With pictures by Florence Upton.
Today: The Golliwogg's Christmas
with Sarah Ward
A weekly look at criticism and comments from younger viewers.
Introduced by Leslie Crowther.
With Peter Glaze, Christine Holmes, Jillian Comber
Guests, The Small Faces, Saveen
(Bert Hayes is appearing at Butlin's Hotels, Cliftonville; Christine Holmes in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
News and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Corbet Woodall with George Villiers.
Followed by the Weather in the South-East
Starring Andy Stewart
with Bernadette, James Urquhart, John Gray, Dixie Ingram, The White Heather Dancers, Harry Carmichael and Ian Powrie and his Band.
From Scotland
Introduced by Peter Scott.
Sea Serpents, the Abominable Snowman, the Loch Ness Monster - true or false? Fact or fiction? Bernard Heuvelmans suggests such creatures could exist and uses in his evidence such remarkable animals as the Komodo dragon, the giant panda, the monkey-eating eagle, the snub-nosed monkey, and the mountain gorilla.
From the West
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A detective calls back at the Coopers'; Gran and Cora have a surfeit of glass; Arnold is bored by an entertainment and Philip arranges a journey.
by Ronnie Taylor.
[Starring Harry Worth]
with Dudley Foster as Baker, William Kendall as Dalby
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by Tudor Gates.
Starring Neil McCallum
Guest star, George Cole
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Outside broadcast cameras bring you some of the principal bouts in tonight's international contest, from Govan Town Hall, Glasgow.
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A documentary film about the thoughts of a man sailing the Atlantic Ocean single-handed.
Val Howells, on a voyage from New York to Southampton, experiences a kind of schizophrenia. He must live with and analyse his own self-set loneliness.
Round the clock and round the world with up-to-the-minute coverage of what matters today.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore with Kenneth Allsop.
A look at the films showing on BBC-tv and the new releases in the cinema.
with Philip Jenkinson who introduces scenes from:
Beloved Infidel - Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr
Lullaby of Broadway - Doris Day
Stop! You're Killing Me - Broderick Crawford
Fahrenheit 451 - Julie Christie, Oskar Werner by courtesy of Rank
Is Paris Burning? - Anthony Perkins, Leslie Caron
Promise Her Anything - Leslie Caron, Warren Beatty by courtesy of Paramount
Also featuring an interview with Leslie Caron in the studio.
10.47-11.12 No Turning Back
The story of Michael Taylor.
(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)
10.47-11.12 The Founder
The story of Lancing College.
(Rowridge, Brighton)
1966 is near its end. Millions more years are to come, but the earth will not last for ever. Patrick Moore discusses some of the ways in which our world will eventually come to an end.
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