A film serial in 13 episodes.
Written by Oliver Postgate
Story told by Oliver Postgate and Ronnie Stevens
Do you collect ants? Click your nose? Make 'Anonymice'?
The WDY gang is a bunch of kids - like Nick Patten and Alison Smith - making their own programme out of your letters and ideas. Why don't you join in? If you've got any better ideas why don't you write and tell us.
Holiday activities: page 5
Country Ways
A programme for children under 5
by Mary Stewart
with Geraldine McEwan
Mary Smith is bored on her holiday in the country-that is, until she finds a cat who leads her to a curious flower... and a little broomstick.
Today: Things that go bump in the night
Question-Master John Craven
A general knowledge quiz in which young people from all over the United Kingdom have taken part. Today the teams that have got through their semi-finals meet to compete to find the winner of the series.
In the programme John Craven sets the teams an observation test to see how good the competitors would be as reporters.
(from Bristol)
A film from Yugoslavia.
A foal is born during a storm and Julia rides out for help.
with Richard Whitmore; Weather
Bringing you news and views in your region tonight
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings
A series of outside broadcasts from this year's Service Spectaculars
Barri Haynes introduces highlights from the 1973 show which features:
The Royal Artillery Motorcycle Display Team, The Musical Ride of the Household Cavalry and the Finale in which the Massed Bands and Corps of Drums parade as a grand finale to the Tattoo from Cardiff Castle, a delightful setting for this traditional spectacle - an entertainment which is uniquely British.
starring Ryan Davies and Ronnie Williams
with Myfanwy Talog, Bryn Williams
(BBC Wales)
(Colour)
Introduced by David Dimbleby and Alan Watson
These Young People - the last in this five-part investigation into this Britain through the eyes of the 18-25-year-olds.
This week the panel looks at the subject of Patriotism. Where do their loyalties lie? If there was another war - would they respond to the call like their fathers and grandfathers?
Also this week - an audience chosen from an older generation will give their opinions on the views of 'These Young People.'
with Robert Dougall and Richard Whitmore
Weather
by Roy Minton
with Barry Jackson as Horace and Stephen Tantum as Gordon
'Daft' Horace from the joke factory starts an alliance with Gordon, a schoolboy 20 years his junior.
When Gordon overhears his mother and her new boyfriend planning to leave him with her sister-in-law, he decides to run away and asks Horace to go with him...
"Never sentimentalised... sympathetic, touching The piece worked marvellously well." (Daily Telegraph)
A series of ten programmes
It has been said that there is now no national housing problem, but a variety of local problems. What should be the national housing policy?
John Tusa talks to Paul Channon, MP, Minister of Housing, and to Rt Hon Anthony Crosland, MP.
