A programme for the young.

(First shown on BBC Wales)
(Crystal Palace, Wenvoe West, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)

For the very young
Pippin and Tog watch the little people make a garden.

Jack Scott
(to 13.53)

A programme for children under five
Shown at 11.0 a.m. on BBC-2

by Helen Cresswell
with Wendy Craig

The Thursday film this week is from Yugoslavia.

Julia refuses to let a dog run into danger through the stupidity of one of her friends.

by E. Nesbit
Dramatised in seven parts by Denis Constanduros

It was a happy, united family until the two strange men arrived to see father. After that, it was just mother and the children in the country cottage, mother trying to make a living while the children made the acquaintance of the local railway people...
[Repeat]

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

Jack Scott

Robert Robinson looks back on July 1952
General Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson are nominated as Presidential candidates. Little Mo wins Wimbledon. The last tram runs in London. The Olympic Games open in Helsinki. The Games were dominated, as Christopher Chataway, M.P., recalls, by Emil Zatopek-winner of the 10,000 metres, the 5,000 metres, and the marathon.

The new auction game
Auctioneer, Peter Wilson Chairman of Sotheby's asks
What am I bid?
Top men and women buyers compete against each other in a contest of saleroom skill and expert knowledge.
A game for laymen played by experts chaired by expert layman Ted Moult
Under the hammer,
Treasures of great value Goods and chattels and the odd 'surprise' lot
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6.0-6.15 Local News and Weather
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)

6.15-6.40 Television Brain of Britain Contest: West heats
(Rowridge, Brighton)

Damian Forster turns up and transfers his allegiance from Arnold Tripp to Henry Burroughs. The staff of the Advertiser rally round to get out the week's issue. Jimmy receives his A-level results.
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 John Pennington
Starring Ewen Solon
with James Grant and Callum Mill
Guest star, Andrew Keir

A stateless man complicates a case that the Investigation Branch have been working on for a number of months.
(First shown on BBC-2)

with Robert Dougall
and The Weather

Written by Sandy Stern
Dr. Steve Wojeck a tough, hard-hitting big-city coroner who fights for what he believes in.
A new film series from Canada
Starring John Vernon

Small-pox is suspected. A sailor on an Arab ship in port is taken ill and has been rushed to hospital. Then, unscrupulous methods are used to make the hospital discharge the sailor - and Wojeck - realises that the ship holds a macabre secret.

Introduced by Harry Carpenter
Recalling historic sporting occasions and great champions in their moment of glory

featuring
Racing
1961-Psidium wins the Derby at 66-1
Motor Racing
1955-Stirling Moss wins the Mille Miglia
Athletics
1936-Four Britons beat the world at the Olympic Games in Berlin
Studio:
F. Wolff, Col. G. Rampling, W. Roberts, and A. G. K. Brown

What matters in the news and out of it with Kenneth Allsop and Michael Barratt,
Robert McKenzie, Vincent Kane

What is Christ for us today?
What effect on us does he have?
What demands does he make?
Raymond Short talks to The Rev. Gerald Downing
Gerald Downing is author of a book with the above title. As a theologian, he is concerned with the way Christ is understood and described. As a parish priest he is concerned with the people he meets and what they are able to believe. The programme discusses what happens when traditional theology and contemporary viewpoints are brought face to face.
from the North

A course in drawing and observation
If we take a corner-on view, of an object we see the sides running away from us at an angle. How can we assess these?
Ian Simpson invites you to join the studio group and make your own drawing
First shown on BBC-2
Accompanying booklet: see page 34

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