9.38 Merry-Go-Round: Making Shadow Puppets
(Shown on Monday)
10.0-10.20 Science Session: What?-about Food
(Shown on Wednesday)
11.0-11.15 Watch!: Gliding-Flight
(Shown on Tuesday)
Tammy and friends.
(First shown on BBC Wales)
(Crystal Palace, Wenvoe West, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)
For the very young
Bert Foord
(to 13.53)
Introduced by Ronald Lacey
with Kenneth Saunders, Norman Foster and pupils from Thomas Bennett School, Crawley
(Repeated on Friday)
(to 14.25)
A programme for children under five
Today's story: "Merrylegs" by P. Gorman
(Shown at 11.0 a.m. on BBC-2)
by Jo Rice
with pictures by David Knight
with Harry Fowler
with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves
The Thursday film this week is from Sweden
An adventure serial in seven parts
Kaj and Peter keep their rendezvous in the Old Mine with Dr. Miller.
Story told by John Westbrook
English version written and told by Eric Thompson.
Bert Foord
Robert Robinson looks at the events, politics, sport, and entertainment of 1951. Tonight's programme deals with the month of August, when Sir Basil Spence's designs for Coventry Cathedral were accepted, and Sir Winston Churchill was made a Freeman of Dover and Deal. There's film of comedians Brian Reece (P.C. 49), Jewel and Warriss, and Terry-Thomas, and a BBC appeal to motorists to fit suppressors to their cars.
6.0-6.15 Local News and Weather
(Rowridge, Brighton)
6.0-6.15 Local News and Weather
(Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The Boys of The Crypt School, Gloucester v. The Boys of Chatham House Grammar School, Ramsgate
The Harkers start to dig the foundations for their new bungalow. Amelia goes fishing with Malcolm and Turner. Lance is invited to tea by Caroline.
From the Midlands
A new look at Britain's best-sellers
Discs - Stars - News from this week's Top Twenty
Introduced tonight by Tony Blackburn
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Directed by Johnny Pearson
by Brian Hayles
Starring Thora Hird, Robert Keegan, James Grout and Henry Knowles
Somewhat to his dismay, Tom Danby's latest girl-friend, Alison Evesby, turns out to be an active social worker. Her idea of an evening out is to paint up the wretched cottage of old age pensioner Henry Burdock. Inspired by this good work on the part of her son, Sarah investigates and finds out that a projected old folks' home that Henry is waiting to enter is held up for lack of funds. The blame apparently rests with the Furness Rugby Club, whose grand raffle has swamped the other raffles in Furness, including the one that is to provide the funds for Henry's new home. What is to be done? Sarah decides to try a frontal attack on the Rugby Club. After all, which is more important to Henry, a couple of hours at a rugby match each week, or a decent place to live? But does she stop to find out Henry's views on the matter?
with Robert Dougall
followed by The Weather
Tonight a distinguished panel selects the winner of the soccer commentators' nation-wide competition from an original entry of nearly 10,000
The Judges:
Sir Alf Ramsey former England soccer captain, present manager of the English World Champions
Denis Howell, M.P., Minister for Sport, and still on the Football League list of first-class referees
Peter Black, Television critic of the "Daily Mail" and current holder of the "Critic of the Year" award in the Hannen Swaffer annual journalistic awards
Bryan Cowgill, Head of Sports Programmes, BBC-tv
and a well-known British international footballer
This panel will make their final judgment on the six finalists after seeing and hearing their commentaries on a recent England international at Wembley Stadium
(See page 40)
In the third programme in this new series Christopher Brasher interviews Les Cannon, President of the Electrical Trades Union
Les Cannon was brought up in Wigan in a Marxist atmosphere. At the age of nineteen he joined the Communist Party and rose through the ranks of his union to battle with its leadership in the famous ballot-rigging affair. Now he is no longer a Communist. In fact he is regarded as a right-wing unionist. How did he lose his faith in Communism? How does he see the fight between Them, the management, and Us, the workers? And the fight between Us, the nation, and Them, the unions?
What matters in the news and out of it
also Apollo 10 Report
A round-up of the day's events in space, with James Burke at the Space Desk
by The Rev. R. T. Brooks
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