What's for dinner? Roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and two vegetables followed by apple pie? Or a slice of high-grade protein, some carbohydrate, together with a little fat, and various vitamins, with mineral salts thrown in for good measure? Whichever way you look at it a well-balanced diet is essential for the maintenance of a healthy body. In today's programme Professor W.S. Bullough talks about what food you eat and why you eat it.
(A BBC recording of last Wednesday's broadcast)
(to 11.45)

Bwrw golwg dros bynciau'r dydd mewn sgwrs a ffilm-a chyfle i gwrdd a rhai sy'n amlwg yn y newyddion.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.30)

Peter West visits three different factories with BBC film cameras and talks to some of the workers he meets.

For the Very Young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your children and invites them to join in songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(A BBC television film)

A Day to Remember
Millions of people throughout the world have good cause to remember United Nations Day (October 24). Some of the many reasons are illustrated in stories from a refugee camp in Germany, from villages in the Philippines and in Greece, and from a research centre in London.
Introduced by Margaret Lane.
Film from United Nations Film Board

3.15 Places and People: Albania Today
Film and commentary by Constance Paul.

(to 15.30)

with Max Robertson and Elisabeth Robertson.

This is an annual event of great excitement and festivity, with music, dancing, fancy dress parades, and colourful processions through the streets. The festivities are most attractive, but Max and Elisabeth find time for a bathe at Maracas Beach and a visit to the southernmost tip of the island to see the famous Trinidad pitch lake.
Introduced by Max and Elisabeth Robertson.
(BBC recording)

by Jane Austen
Adapted for television in six weekly instalments by Cedric Wallis
[Starring] Alan Badel with William Squire, Hugh Sinclair, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Marian Spencer, Jane Downs

Last episode.
Elizabeth returns home to her family in deep distress. Mr. Bennet is in London trying to trace the eloping couple, but returns without success. Meanwhile, unknown to the family, Mr. Darcy visits the Gardiners and arranges a meeting with Mr. Wickham and Lydia; the result of this meeting makes Mrs. Bennet a very happy woman.
(A BBC recording of the broadcast on February 28)

On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20

A weekly 'Do It Yourself' programme with Barry Bucknell.
Ideas on bathroom fittings
(A BBC recording)

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Cy Grant and Noel Harrison

A weekly school report written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
[Starring] Professor Jimmy Edwards

See below

[Starring] Frank Wylie as Jock McNeil
From the BBC's television studios in Scotland
See above

Raymond Baxter reports.
The healthy tissues of plants and animals alone are free from the presence of bacteria, and the control of bacteria is one of the permanent problems of science
Tonight outside broadcast and film cameras visit South Wales where, by Gamma radiation and other methods, some significant results are being achieved in bacteriological research.
From University College, Cardiff

by Leslie Bonnet.
In which Bernard Braden is seen in the main role and heard as all the other characters presents tonight...
(Produced on film by Henry Caldwell Productions Ltd.)

followed by Weather and Close Down