For the very young
(to 11.00)
Fourth day's play at Trent Bridge.
(to 13.38)
A further visit to Trent Bridge.
(to 16.15)
by Philippa Pearce.
With Martin Jarvis.
This week's story, is about Tom Long, who wanted to spend the summer holidays building a tree-house in his back garden. But things didn't turn out quite the way he had planned.
New ideas, new developments, new buildings, new techniques to make animals mostly from abroad feet at home' in a zoo.
Twycross Zoo Park in Leicestershire has grown in a few years from a small private collection into a full-sized zoo open to the public. Their speciality has always been their collection of apes and monkeys. Through their continued success in breeding and rearing these animals in captivity, Twycross has been described as a 'Paradise for Primates'.
Introduced by John Napier.
from the South and West
A film serial from Australia.
Dr. Smith discovers the secret of the ray gun and the Army moves in.
The adventures of the boy detective and his dog.
Professor Calculus overcomes land and air attack with his new sound weapon.
News and views from London and the South-East
followed by the Weather in the South-East
The closing overs of the fourth day's play at Trent Bridge.
Told by Duncan Carse.
In West Africa sacrificial rites are still practised in favour of the gods of fertility. Max Lersch witnesses the tribal customs and explores a mountain in search of a hidden tomb containing the shrunken bodies of kings.
by Alistair Bell.
Starring Joseph Brady, John Slater
with David Daker, Stephen Yardley
Written by Ronald Wolfe and Ronald Chesney.
Starring Thora Hird and Freddie Frinton
"It should have a feeling of sex - that's the business we're in..."
Alan Whicker observes The Quest for Beauty
You look in the mirror and there they are... wrinkles, sagging muscles, grey hairs - or that getting-thin-on-top shine! The unhappy signs of an ageing process which some people seem able to stave off. How do they do it?
With persistence, pain, money, and remarkable ingenuity - as can be discovered tonight.
(First shown on BBC-2)
"Whicker's World on the beauty industry was a dream, wasn't it..." (Maurice Wiggin, Sunday Times)
A Tragic Tale dramatised by John Hawkesworth.
Introducing Charlotte Rampling
with Jessie Evans, Brian Phelan
and Michael Latimer as Philip Hardacre
(First shown on BBC-2)
Round the clock and round the world with up-to-the-minute coverage of what matters today.
Introduced by Kenneth Allsop.
Round 24 hours with Ian Trethowan, Robert McKenzie
Round 24,000 miles with Fyfe Robertson, Julian Pettifer, Michael Barratt, Michael Parkinson, David Lomax
Introduced by Eric Robinson.
with David Nixon, Semprini, Sylvia Campbell, Robert Bickerstaff, Shirley Grahame, Piers Beaumont, David Morton-Gray.
The Bel-Canto Singers
The Melodies for You Orchestra
Leader, David McCallum
(Robert Bickerstaff and David Morton-Gray appear by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera Company; Shirley Grahame and Piers Beaumont by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
A series of ten programmes unravelling the workings of the weather.
Research in the upper atmosphere has revealed meteorological effects high above the levels of our ordinary weather.
Dr. R. Frith, Meteorological Office, Bracknell; Mr. J. Paton, Edinburgh University.
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