The human ear enables us to distinguish between sounds of different pitch and sounds of different intensity. In today's programme Professor W.S. Bullough shows how the ear is able to receive vibrations through the air and translate these into messages which can then be sent on to the brain.
(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.
Some thoughts about 'Work' and the part it plays in our lives.

For the Very Young
(BBC television film)

Things to Amuse the Children
The ideal toy exercises the child's imagination and keeps it amused indefinitely. Ann Welch and Barry Bucknell show how easily such toys can be made.

3.15 Tell Me Doctor
Dr. Winifred de Kok discusses viewers' letters.
Letters should be sent to: Dr. Winifred de Kok, [address removed]

(to 15.30)

by Patricia Lynch
Adapted for television by Pamela Brown
(Sean Barrett appears by permission of Ealing M.G.M. Artists Ltd.)

A magazine programme for railway enthusiasts from eight to eighty.
Introduced by Peter Cranmer.
This month's edition includes:
Can You Guess?
With the bankers on the Lickey Incline
From our Collection
Our Guest: Inspector Reed
From the BBC's Midland television studio

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 an Indoor Swing and Safety Measures for small children

(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

with Harry Towb, Sam Kydd, Thomas Gallagher, Ewen MacDuff, Pamela Beckman, Jacques Cey.
See page 4

by Jacques Gillies.
See panel on left
From the BBC's West of England television studios

In tonight's programme, the fifth in a series of seven dealing with British influence in the Commonwealth, Aidan Crawley looks at white settlement in East and Central Africa and examines the consequences.
Next week: The West Indies

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, directed by Arthur Wilkinson