Practical help for the housewife.
Presented by Joan Gilbert.
Your Wardrobe
A selection of clothes for the autumn, chosen by Bettie Spurling.
Bringing up Jasper
Macdonald Daly reports on the puppy's progress.
Round the Shops
Margot Lovell reports.
For the very young.
Charles E. Stidwill tells the story
Sam Williams and Elizabeth Williams make the pictures
(A BBC television film)
(to 16.15)
Children's Newsreel
The Fish and the Angel
Written and produced by Vivian Milroy.
Second performance: next Sunday
The story of Tobit from which the play "The Fish and the Angel" is taken covers quite a long period of Jewish history, although the main incident - the appearance of the Archangel Raphael and his influence on the lives of Tobit and of his son Tobias - occupies only a few weeks. Tobit's story starts somewhere about 700 B.C. with one of the periodic defeats of the Jews by the Assyrians - this time under King Sennacherib. Tobit's tribe of Kedesh Naphtali, who lived on the shores of Lake Galilee, were driven off to captivity in Mesopotamia. It was a half-hearted kind of captivity; there were no prisons or gaolers or barbed-wired camps; the Jews stayed where they were mainly because it would have been too difficult for them to travel back to their own country. But although they were not confined behind bars and were free to come and go, from time to time individual Jews were very badly treated and persecuted. Tobit was always ready when any of his countrymen needed help and was soon in trouble with the authorities. He had to escape from Nineveh and hid with his wife, Anna, and his son, Tobias, on Mount Ararat - where Noah's Ark had rested after the Flood. Through the help of his nephew, who was chamberlain to King Sennacherib's successor, Tobit returned to Nineveh. But his sight failed and Anna was forced to work at spinning and weaving in order to support him. This is the situation when our play starts. Tobit is living very poorly on the outskirts of Nineveh with Anna and Tobias and Tobias's dog - the only dog which has the honour of being mentioned in the Bible.
(Vivian Milroy)
(to 17.45)
A play by Royston Morley.
(Second performance: for details see Sunday at 8.30)
from the Empire Stadium Wembley.
Television outside - broadcast cameras join a crowd of more than 90,000 to watch the final stages of this international individual speedway event, under the auspices of the Sunday Dispatch.
Race commentator, Peter Dimmock with Trevor Redmond in the pits
See 'Television Diary' on page 14
A film impression of a French river from source to sea and of the countryside through which it flows.
(sound only)
