It's after midnight in Mexico and the end of the first week of the Olympic Games.
Direct by satellite from Mexico City comes the latest coverage of Olympic events, including
Swimming, Men's 100 Metres Freestyle Final
Olympic champion: D. Schollander (U.S.A.)
Olympic record: 53.4 seconds
Men's 100 Metres Breaststroke
Ladies' 100 Metres Freestyle Final
Olympic champion: Dawn Fraser (Australia)
Olympic record: 59.5 seconds
Ladies' 100 Metres Breaststroke Final
and Boxing... Weightlifting... Fencing... Athletics with, every fifteen minutes
The Olympic Headlines
Introduced by Frank Bough with the BBC Olympic team of commentators
Following on from last week's programme, a look at other ways of preparing the early leaver for the world outside school.
Introduced by Brian MacArthur
Ten programmes on the new understanding molecular biology gives into the nature of life
How the thousands of chemical reactions in the living cell are controlled by the enzymes.
Presented by Professor Asher Korner, University of Sussex; Professor David Phillips University of Oxford
Accompanying pamphlet: see foot of column 1
A twenty-five-episode thriller serial by Emile de Harven
Follow Up Your French
The black sun threatens and the trail gets hotter.
with Gisele Grimm, Gerard Buhr, Monique Messine, Michel Forain
(Repeated on Saturday at 10.30 a.m.)
(Part 4: Thursday evening, October 31)
Accompanying pamphlet: see below
An interdenominational exposition of some New Testament texts
with The Rev. Peter Hamilton, Anglican; Fr. Michael Richards, Roman Catholic;
The Rev. John O'Neill, Presbyterian
Introduced by The Rev. George Corfield
from Union Church (Presbyterian and Congregational), Highgate
Ten programmes in a Business Studies course
What are the elements of a contract? Are they equally important?
Written and introduced by Michael Molyneux
These programmes are linked with the English Law series broadcast on Thursdays at 6 30 p.m. on Radio 3
Accompanying pamphlet: see left
A programme for engineers
One firm claims dramatic results after introducing Group Technology. David Shute investigates
Developing a Small Firm for bosses and managers of small firms
The small exporter and his overseas agent.
Presented by Denis Mitchell
Repeated next Saturday at 10.0 a.m
Accompanying pamphlet: see below
A beginners' course in folk guitar with John Pearse
Tuning check-another right-hand style-working on a simple song,'The Grand Old Duke of York'
Repeated on Friday, 7.0 p.m. (BBC-2)
Programme 4: Monday evening, Oct. 28
Accompanying pamphlet: see below
Each week Florence Norberg takes a well-known song and shows a group of young people how to improve their singing.
Repeated on Friday, 7.15 p.m. (BBC-2)
Programme 4: Monday evening, Oct. 28
Introduced by John Cherrington
Frank Taylor visits some of the first victims of last year's foot-and-mouth epidemic to find out how well they have been able to recover
from the Midlands
and Weather Situation for farmers and growers
Action... News... Personalities and the stories behind the headlines from Mexico City
David Coleman and David Vine report on today's Olympic scene with coverage of the latest
Swimming Finals... Boxing... Fencing... and a look ahead to tonight's great programme of Athletics which includes the final of the 'Blue Riband' of the Games, the 1,500 metres, and the Marathon.
A series of romantic feature films
starring Dorothy Lamour
with Richard Denning, Jack Haley, Patricia Morison, Walter Abel
The newspapers are full of the imminent arrival in San Francisco of Tama, a girl from the jungle who has become heiress to a fortune through the deaths of her well-known socialite parents. She grew up in the jungle with only a tiger and a prankish chimpanzee for friends, and so is ill-equipped to cope with the human sharks-publicity agents, reporters, and so on-who hound her when she arrives in America. But love is the same anywhere, and Jakra, a lion-wrestler, soon finds he is romantically involved with the beautiful jungle princess.
Stories of a railroad moving west and the pioneers who build it
A film series starring Dale Robertson as Ben Calhoun
A railroad engineer becomes a renegade after he is accused of being a traitor. In spite of fierce opposition Ben is determined to give him the chance to make a fresh start-but it is not that easy.
Customers and connoisseurs explore the world of Antiques with Max Robertson
from the South and West
by Mark Twain
Dramatised in four parts by John Hawkesworth
Lady Portia, who has believed Henry to be only a clerk, is horrified when she discovers that it is Henry who has been making a success in London society as the young American millionaire.
Tom and Jerry playing cat and mouse in a selection from the world-famous award-winning cartoon films starring Tom the Cat and a far-from-underdog mouse called Jerry
Vanishing Duck
...not even a tail-piece?
Bert Foord
I'm not ashamed to be in prison. What is there to be ashamed about...?
Shot in a Leicestershire prison, this film is about the prisoners' attitudes to life inside and outside prison, to crime, punishment, and the morality of the world they have left behind them.
Children tell the story of how the Israelites went down into Egypt and slavery, and how God led them out to the Promised Land.
Told and drawn by Felpham Church of England School
from The Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Moulton, Northamptonshire
Introduced by Ronald Allison
Ye holy angels bright (Darwell's 148th)
God of mercy, God of grace (Heathlands)
Thy kingdom come, O God (St. Cecilia)
Fill thou my life, O Lord my God (Richmond)
Christ is our corner-stone (Harewood)
Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge)
O my Saviour, lifted (North Coates)
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation (Praxis pietatis)
An Appeal for the League of Friends of Normansfield Hospital
For more than ten years the League has worked for the welfare of mentally handicapped children permanently resident at the Hospital in Teddington. This first appeal to the public is to help raise funds for a much-needed hydro-therapy pool in the Hospital grounds.
Donations, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, to: [address removed]
7.20-7.25 Appeal for the Woodhayet Eventide Home [address removed] [text removed]
(Rowridge, Brighton)
7.20-7.25 Appeal: Rivermead Hospital, Oxford, and Standish Hospital, Stroud
The Great Stars of yesterday and today in a season of their most memorable films
[Starring] Judy Garland
with Robert Walker
When Corporal Joe arrives in New York on embarkation leave he knows nobody, knows nothing about the city. But on Penn station he collides with Alice Maybery, office worker. The young couple fall in love-but they have only two days together... On this slight plot Vincente Minnelli creates an unexpectedly brilliant film. I wanted to make New York a character itself with a gallery of people who could exist nowhere else; I put in everything I could remember...'
with Richard Baker
and The Weather
brings you tonight's events in the Olympic Games direct by satellite from Mexico City with David Coleman, Ron Pickering, and Mary Rand reporting from the Olympic Stadium on tonight's big programme of Athletics Finals
Including
The Marathon
Olympic champion: Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia)
Men's 1,500 Metres Final
Olympic champion: Peter Snell (New Zealand)
Olympic record: 3 mins. 35.6 secs.
Men's 4 x 100 Metres Relay Final
Olympic champions: U.S.A.
Olympic record: 39.0 secs.
Ladies' 4 x 100 Metres Relay Final
Olympic champions: Poland
Olympic record: 43.6 secs.
Men's 4 x 400 Metres Final
Olympic champions: U.S.A.
Olympic record: 3 mins. 0.7 secs.
Men's High Jump Final
Olympic champion: V. Brumel (U.S.S.R.)
Olympic record: 7 ft. 1¾ ins.
Ladies' Shot Put Final
Olympic champion: Tamara Press (U.S.S.R.)
Olympic record: 59 ft. 6 ins
Highlights of one of tonight's quarter-final matches in the Olympic tournament.
including
Men's Springboard Diving Final
Olympic champion: K. Sitzberger (U.S.A.)
Ladies' 200 Metres Medley Final, Ladies' 100 Metres Butterfly (Semi-Finals), Men's 100 Metres Butterfly (Semi-Finals)
Programme introduced by Frank Bough with News... Comment... Personalities from all today's events
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