Family Affairs

Sarah's Progress
The doctor discusses how much a mother can rely on her instinct in bringing up a child and how much she needs to be taught.

Family Holiday: 1: In a caravan

People who help the family: The Railway Guard

Introduced by Betty Lait.

and
Food for Thought
including some facts about health. The views of three thousand women on labels and labelling and some information about rising prices.
Introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.

(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.00)

Children's Newsreel

BBC Children's Television Theatre presents: Hopscotch
Introduced by Jeremy Hawk with Crotchet, Gordon and Colville, The Skyliners, Roy Earl and Lenny the Lion with Terry Hall.

(Jeremy Hawk is appearing in "Paris by Night" at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London; Terry Hall is in the Ronnie Ronalde Show at the Wellington Pier, Great Yarmouth; Bert Hayes is at Butlin's Holiday Hotels, Margate; Gordon and Colville and Roy Earl are at Butlin's Holiday Camp, Clacton-on-Sea)

Detholiad o ffilmiau o ddigwyddiadau yng Nghymru yn ystod yr wythnosau a aeth heibio
(Television Welsh News)
(Wenvoe, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 18.15)

People, events, comments of today.
Introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith.

by Michael Pertwee and Roland Pertwee.

Harry Green says Everything Happens to Me.

A series of wild-life programmes introduced by Peter Scott.

These graceful and ferocious animals have been filmed in their natural surroundings by Heinz Sielmann. Their life is seen in exciting and sometimes humorous close-up. Peter Scott and Heinz Sielmann also show some live animals to viewers to compare with those on the film.

From the BBC's West of England television studio
(A BBC telerecording)

There are not many people in Great Britain today who could claim to have seen a polecat in its wild state, though there are many who are familiar with it under another name - the ferret, the albino domesticated polecat, whose skill as a hunter has been known in Europe for hundreds of years. There are references to its use in killing rabbits at least as far back as Roman times. Nowadays, when the rabbit has become scarce, the ferret itself may become a comparative rarity.

In tonight's programme Peter Scott has not only a tame ferret to show but also two tame polecat-ferrets, David and Goliath. Incidentally, this is an occasion for viewers when perhaps distance lends enchantment to the view. "To stink like a polecat" is no empty simile and the live animals in the programme, which was telerecorded a few weeks ago, left a persistent and unmistakable odour for some days afterwards in the Bristol television studio and in one of the offices there.

The programme was telerecorded beforehand because the main part of it is occupied with a Heinz Sielmann film, and since the telerecording he has left for the Belgian Congo to gather more material.

At 8.0 This evening

A gala programme celebrating the tenth anniversary of the reopening of the BBC Television Service.

(See facing page and page 3)
(John Slater is appearing in "Dry Rot" at the Whitehall Theatre, London; Jennifer Gay and Julia Farron appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

A topical series of films about the United States.
Produced and directed for the British Broadcasting Corporation and for the United States Information Agency by Don Cash.

tells one of his own stories.
Followed by The Weather and Close Down