Beauty is skin deep. But the skin is important for other reasons, too. It is the body's first line of defence, preventing minor injuries and infections from becoming major ones. It helps us to keep cool in hot places and warm in cold ones. These and other functions of that complex organ, the skin, are discussed by Professor W. S. Bullough in today's programme.
(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)
Introduced by Peter West.
The programme looks at different types of work in large and small offices.
(BBC television film)
Aids for the Housewife
Refrigerator, sewing machine, washing machine, and clothes dryer... Isobel Barnett investigates the merits of each.
3.15 People and Places
Elisabeth Beresford meets Mrs. Hadley, whose husband grows nutmeg and arrowroot in St. Vincent, Windward Islands.
by Patricia Lynch
Adapted by Pamela Brown
(Sean Barrett appears by permission of Ealing M.G.M. Artists Ltd.)
A series of wild-life programmes.
Introduced by Peter Scott.
Creatures with eight and ten arms-octopus, squid, and cuttlefish-are found in all the oceans of the world.
Peter Scott and Brian Boycott, Lecturer in Zoology at University College, London, show that the facts about these strange animals are as fascinating as the legends and stories which they have inspired.
(BBC recording)
(Film by arrangement with the Institute for Film and Bild, Munich, and Walt Disney Productions Ltd.)
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.
Making and putting up shelves
Drilling and plugging different types of walls
(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
Written by Dave Freeman and Charlie Drake
with Mark Singleton, Joanne Dainton, Otto Diamant, Peter Haigh, Ralph Tovey, Mark Baker, Robert Mackenzie, Herbert Nelson, Murray Kash, Stuart Nichol, Diane MacMillan, Barry Shawzin
A new revue.
[Starring] Dora Bryan
with Daniel Massey, Janie Marden, George Rose, Susan Beaumont, Patience Collier.
and Lynda Baron, Clemence Bettany, Dany Clare, Debbie Hamilton, Janet Moss, Tim Parks, Joanna Rigby, Anthony Selby, Terry Skelton, Lee Vernon.
Televised direct from the Garrick Theatre, London by arrangement with Tennent Productions, Ltd.
Since 1947 British Ocean Weather Ships have been standing watch on their stations in the North Atlantic.
Tonight's film shows the work of these ships and the men on board, whose business today is our weather tomorrow.
(See page 4)
In tonight's programme, the third in a series of seven dealing with British influence in the Commonwealth, Aidan Crawley looks at the new Kingdom of Malaya which was created last year on the fringe of the Communist world.
Next week: India
On December 2 the programme will be concerned with Central and East Africa, and not East Asia as printed in Radio Times published on Oct. 31
A light entertainment.
Introduced by Duncan Macrae.
The Company: Patricia Raine, Jimmy Thompson, April Olrich, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Joan Pethers, Salvatore Pantalone, Rita Cameron, John Howard, Katharine Feather, Teddy Green, Una Stubbs, Richard Garner.
The Palette Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum)
Directed by Arthur Wilkinson
See page 5
followed by Weather and Close Down
