Every hour of the day and night all over the world silent instruments are watching, listening, recording. In cellars the needles of seismographs detect and record the slightest vibration in the earth; at hundreds of meteorological stations thermographs and barographs continuously record information about the weather. In today's programme Philip McAllen shows how these instruments and the people who use them have a strange connection with the backroom planners who organise and control complicated railway systems.
(Recording of Monday'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 John Farleigh.
Guests: Andrew Freeth and Allin Braund
For The Very Young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(BBC television film)
(to 14.45)
The adventures of a Boxer puppy.
Drawn by Tim and told by Sylvia Peters.
by C.E. Webber
The exciting wartime adventure
Based on the novel by Ian Serraillier
Once a dream, the use of radio in the control of models is now a reality. It need not be a luxury. In this programme Arthur and Gerald Garratt show how anyone, with a little initiative, can equip a model with remote control.
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20
Percy Thrower shows seasonal work in garden and greenhouse and with Richard Martyr, Principal of the Pershore Institute of Horticulture shows pruning, shaping, and diseases of Apple Trees on new and established stock.
From the BBC's Midland television studios
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
In tonight's recording Perry Como welcomes star guests Judy Holliday, Jane Morgan, The Dunhills, Kukla and Ollie.
with The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra, The Ray Charles Singers, The Louis Da Pron Dancers.
Written by Goodman Ace, Morton Green and George Foster and Jay Burton.
David Nixon says 'It's Magic' and introduces a thirty-minute mixture of mystery and music with Jean Davis, Lidya and Uri Mazhuchin, Sheila Holt and a panel of well-known guests to see fair play.
Raymond Glendenning introduces Hall of Fame
The Sportsview Unit recalls the world's greatest sports stars in action.
Tonight:
Marcel Cerdan: The ship's stoker, known as 'The Tiger of France' - who became the Middle-weight Champion of the World.
by Charles Dickens
Adapted for television in twelve parts by Freda Lingstrom
(David McCallum appears by arrangement with The Rank Organisation)
Robert Reid makes a Second Enquiry into some of Britain's social problems in 1958.
Made by the BBC Film Units in London and the Regions
On Fridays the House of Commons rises early for the weekend. This gives Members of Parliament a chance to visit their constituencies and to meet the people they represent, to hear their problems, and to answer their questions.
Tonight:
Denis Healey, M.B.E., M.P., Member (Labour) for Leeds, East and Sir Keith Joseph, Bt., M.P., Member (Conservative) for Leeds, North-East answer questions put to them without notice by some of their constituents.
John Beavan is in the chair
Starring Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko.
Viewers whose sets are tuned to Rowridge will see 'View of the South West' from 10.45-11.10
