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

For the very young
A film series of the adventures of Hammy and his friends.

Bert Foord
(to 13.53)

A programme for children under five

(Shown at 11.a.m. on BBC-2)

by Philippa Pearce
Adapted and directed by Marilyn Fox
With Judi Dench

(The next Jackanory will be on September 8, when Kenneth Williams tells "The Founding of Evil Hold School" by Nikolai Tolstoy)

With Ray Alan and Tich and Quackers, George Chisholm, Derek Dene, Heather Barbour, The Elizabethans, The voice of Peter Wheeler
from the North

with Robert Robinson
A weekly look at criticism and comments from younger viewers.

Bert Foord

Ronald Allison spotlights events and people making the news around Town.

Ryan Davies invites you to hear ballads and folk songs, old and new, from Derek Boote, Y Triban, The Hennessys, Mike Stevens, White and Black Folk Group and The Ardwyn Singers
from Wales
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6.0-6.20 Local News and Weather
(Rowridge, Brighton, Oxford, Peterborough, Manningtree, Cambridge)

A film series starring James Drury as The Virginian.

When the son of a prominent rancher starts to court the daughter of a logging boss the romance threatens to turn a simmering feud between the timber men and the cowboys into a full-scale range war.
(First shown on BBC-2)

A new show with new faces
[Starring] Frank Abbott, Peter Legge, Adrienne Posta, Mike Redway, Toni Sinclair

by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn

Under Fire - In which our heroes suspect a local resident of signalling to the enemy.

Featuring John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender
with Janet Davies, Geoffrey Lumsden, John Ringham, Ernst Ulman, Bill Pertwee,
Queenie Watts, June Petersen, Gladys Dawson
The voice of Bud Flanagan
Signature tune by Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner played by the Band of the Coldstream Guards
Conducted by their Director of Music, Capt. Trevor L. Sharpe

If there's one thing the heroes of the Home Guard are constantly alive to, it's the ever-present danger of the enemy within, the dreaded Fifth Column. So when it appears that a local resident is in treasonable communication with the enemy...
[Repeat]

with Richard Baker
followed by The Weather

An opera in two acts by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, from the story by Herman Melville.

Scene: On board H.M.S. Indomitable during the French wars of 1797.

The Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra, Leader, John Georgiadis
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
(Peter Glossop, Michael Langdon, David Kelly, Kenneth Macdonald, Dennis Wicks, Robert Bowman, Delme Bryn-Jones, Eric Garrett, Keith Raggett, and John Constable appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; Charles Mackerras by arrangement with the Hamburg State Opera; David Bowman by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera Co.)
(First shown on BBC-2)

"...the finest achievement in television opera yet mounted in this country." (The Sun)

Just one press comment on a production which became a television landmark. A grim story by Herman Melville (of Moby Dick fame) tells of duty, discipline, and tragedy aboard a British 'wooden wall'; Benjamin Britten has turned it into one of the most moving operas composed this century.
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There will be a short interval at 10.30*