Bob Langley, Marian Foster, David Seymour present the ideas, activities, music and personalities of the day, live from the entrance hall of BBC Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham, including Plain and Fancy - Cooking with Jack Douglas
by W.M. Thackeray
With Kenneth Williams
Two Princes and two Princesses - not to mention the Countess Gruffanuff - fall in and out of love with each other, all because of the Fairy Blackstick's magical present: a Rose and a Ring
The thorn in 'The Rose': page 4
with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
by Peter Dickinson
Adapted in ten parts by Anna Home
When the world seems to go mad and everyone starts smashing machines, Nicky Gore doesn't understand what's happening; but she joins in just the same....
with Richard Whitmore
Weatherman
Look North, South Today, Look East, Midlands Today, Points West, Spotlight South West
News, interviews and analysis from your region tonight, including local weather
with Richard Baker and Richard Whitmore; Weather
by Robert Muller
A set of 26 plays based on passages from Winston S. Churchill's "A History of the
English-Speaking Peoples"
"By the end of the third century Rome seemed as powerful and stable as ever. But below the surface the foundations were cracking."
Starring Richard Johnson as Claudius, Arthur Lowe as Epillicus, the Barber, with Sheila Brennan as Julia
Orion, the Hunter Patrick Moore talks about this most splendid of constellations.
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