A visit to Lord's for the last day's play.
(to 13.30)
Introduced by Jeanne Heal.
I'd like you to meet... Barbara Goalen the well-known model.
Craftsmanship
Horace Uphill demonstrates carving in wood and shows work by Grinling Gibbons and other masters of the craft.
Story: Paper Profits
written and told by Charles Richardson.
Summer Drinks
Raymond Postgate recommends some cool drinks for summer.
Time for Music
Antony Hopkins plays some music by Grieg.
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in songs and games.
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(A BBC film)
(to 16.15)
A serial in eight parts adapted for television by Alice de Grey from the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Period. 1911
(to 18.00 app.)
from the Nuffield Centre before an audience of H.M. Forces.
[Starring] The Burt Twins (Simon and Timothy), Brenda Carr, Frank Holmes, Don Saunders
Introduced by Jeanne de Casalis.
At the pianos: Steve Race and Malcolm Lockyer
At the drums, Geoff Lofts
The BBC Television Film Unit presents a film taken in a De Havilland air-liner flying eight miles high at nearly 500 miles an hour from London to Johannesburg.
(Previously shown on May 4)
by Bernard Shaw.
The action takes place in the official parlour of the President of the British Islands, A.D. 2170.
Viewers will remember that the Brothers Barnabas (the dominating figures in Part 2) were convinced that life was too short; that the ideal span was three hundred years; and that human beings could achieve that limit not, as the politicians believed, by using some magic elixir, but by a conscious effort of win. Nobody believed them and it is one of the ironies of Part 3 that 'The Thing Happens' to one of the greatest scoffers; one who was convinced that 'it won't be one of us anyhow'.
(Monday's edition repeated)
(sound only)