A special programme
For viewers from Pakistan and India
Written and produced by Mahendra Kaul
From the Midlands
An insight into the Modern Primary School with reference to the Plowden and Gittins reports
A school on the outskirts of Swindon
Presented by David Lucas
From the South and West
Twenty-six programmes for beginners in Italian
with Bianca Maria Corbella, Yole Marinelli, Luigi Basagaluppi, Alberto Colzi.
(Repeated next Saturday at 10.0 a.m.)
(For booklet and records see page 63)
from Bethany Baptist Church, Heol Llanishen Fach, Cardiff
Conducted by the Minister, The Rev. Gwynfryn Thomas
Hugh Morrison works with a group of amateur actors and suggests ways of improving their performances.
Next week: Death of a Salesman
A series of personal readings in literature old and new
Henry Livings, arguably the best comic playwright of the day, uses filmed rehearsals of his new West End play "Honour and Offer" to illustrate his interests as a writer, and discusses his work with the Something to Say audience.
A series of Management problems for you to solve
What do you do when demand exceeds supply and exports cannot be met?
Introduced by Robert Robinson
with Michael Carroll, Michael Morris, Jim Craigie
(to 13.00)
See panel
Introduced by David Richardson
Last year weather conditions and imports combined to make the crop a disaster. Are prospects better this year?
from the Midlands
and Weather Situation for farmers and growers
(to 13.50)
Ten programmes for home dressmakers
Fashion comments, David Bond
Demonstration, Ann Ladbury
Fitting, Beryl Rouse
(First shown on BBC-2)
(For booklet see page 63)
Twenty-first Birthday Concert in the presence of H.R.H. Prince Charles
A programme celebrating the twenty-first anniversary of the orchestra's founding
Hugo Rignold conducts
Berlioz: Overture: Benvenuto Cellini
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1, in C
with Terence Judd
Introduced by Richard Baker
Harold Williamson talks to boys and girls at Dibden Purlieu, Hampshire.
"There is a heaven with lots of trees and nice colours, and transparent people with no servants, just to prove they're self-dependent" (Nine-year-old boy)
"Why did the animals go into Noah's Ark by twos? Because the plank and the door were only wide enough for two." (Two-six-year-olds)
"Hell would be a kind of sharp, stony city, with the Devil sitting on a sharp throne, and all the people who have sinned would be around laughing and jumping up and down" (Ten-year-old-boy)
(from the North)
starring Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Charlie Ruggles, Ida Lupino, Grace Bradley
A madcap musical masquerade on an ocean liner is the setting for such famous Cole Porter numbers as 'You're the top,'I get a kick out of you,' and 'Anything goes.'
A new challenge quiz that tests your knowledge of your town... your county... Britain and the world
Resident team, John Betjeman, Caroline Brown
This week's challenger, David Jacobs assisted by Virginia Symondson
In the chair, Paddy Feeny
from the South and West
Based on "The Elusive Pimpernel" and "Eldorado" by The Baroness Orczy
Dramatised in ten parts by John Hawkesworth
Chauvelin has been outwitted by Sir Percy Blakeney who has escaped to Paris in a daring bid to rescue the Dauphin.
with Lamb Chop and Charley Horse
Graham Parker
Introduced by Paddy Feeny
Most churches look the part. The church of St. Philip and St. James, at Hodge Hill on the outskirts of Birmingham, was designed not to look like a church but to be practical - not only for worship, but for many different uses we do not often associate with church buildings. Does it work? And should other churches - or all our churches - be like this?
From the Midlands
This week Barry Turner talks to Edward Bawden
"I think imagination is - can be - reality, don't you?"
from All Saints' Parish Church, Royal Leamington Spa
with the BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Introduced by Ronald Allison
(from the Midlands)
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Praxis pietatis)
Angel voices ever singing (Angel voices)
Just as I am, without one plea (Misericordia)
O for a heart to praise my God (Stockton)
Mattheson's Air (arr. Gilbert Vinter)
Glorious things of thee are spoken (Austria)
Our blest Redeemer, ere he breathed (St. Cuthbert)
Rejoice! the Lord is King! (Gopsal)
Fill thou my life, O Lord my God (Richmond)
All people that on earth do dwell (Old 100th)
by Pat Dunlop
Created by A. J. Cronin
starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
Dr. Finlay, after his defeat in the recent by-election, is far from his usual good-humoured self. It might be that he is just run-down but, when he insults a wealthy hypochondriac and is blatantly rude to Dr. Snoddie, we begin to realise that there is more to it than that.
The Great Stars of yesterday and today in a season of their most memorable films
[Starring] Humphrey Bogart
with Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray
with John Edmunds
followed by The Weather
A round-up of the day's events in space with James Burke at the Space Desk
Acting Styles in the 20th Century
Sheridan Morley introduces Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Donald Sinden
with film illustrating the work of: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanora Duse, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Gerald du Maurier, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Edith Evans and Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora
Programme produced in collaboration with the National Film Archive
John Gielgud is appearing in 'Forty Years On' at the Apollo Theatre; Donald Sinden in 'Not Now Darling' at the Strand Theatre, London
(Shown at 6.15 p.m.)
