(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.30)
For the Very Young
(BBC television film)
Holidays: 1: The Travel Agent's Package
Film of Mediterranean resorts and sightseeing centres in Italy with John Lindsay who puts questions to travel agents and holidaymakers about the pleasures and pains of all-in tours abroad.
3.15 Report from Paris
From the studios of Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise.
(to 15.30)
Bruce Campbell introduces:
Nestboxes
How to encourage birds to nest in your garden.
The Month of January
What to look for and how to find it.
H. G. Hurrell takes a walk in his valley.
Club Room
Leslie Jackman shows you his field equipment and how to make a plaster cast of footprints in the mud.
Russian Brent Geese
The story of their journey from Siberia to Britain.
From the BBC's West of England television studio
Kirsten Simone and Henning Kronstam
Introduced by Peggy van Praagh in dances from the Royal Danish Ballet's production of 'La Sylphide' and 'Casse-Noisette'.
The Pro Arts Orchestra
(Leader, Antony English)
Conductor, John Lanchbery
(BBC recording of the broadcast on April 4, 1958)
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.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Rory and Alex McEwen
From the Y.M.C.A. in Birmingham.
A general knowledge contest based on the popular sound programme 'What Do You Know?'
Each week a new team of challengers from a different part of Britain competes against the resident team.
This week:
The Residents - Leonora Millington, Edward Moult, Mostyn Lewis
v.
The Midlands - Nancy Mobberley, Terence Bond, Philip Back
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
The first of a fortnightly series presenting artists new to Television.
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by J. Mansel Thomas
With Hugh David and Peter Bryant
The action of the play takes place at the present time in and around the Rhoseithin Bay Hotel, and in the fishing village of Rhoseithin on the west coast of Wales.
From the BBC's Welsh television studio
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A monthly series in which Outside Broadcast and film cameras tell how one incident can change one person's life.
Twenty-five years ago a phone call changed the life of a young actor called Hearne. It introduced him to a scatter-brained old character of seventy. Tonight Richard Hearne tells Hywel Davies how this old man completely upset his life, stole his identity, and several times nearly killed him, but in doing so brought him not only money but many things which money cannot buy.
(BBC recording from backstage in the Hippodrome, Brighton, where Richard Hearne is appearing in "Mother Goose")
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introduces Owen Brannigan
The Luton Girls' Choir
Conductor, Arthur Davies
The Trio: Max Jaffa (violin), Reginald Kilbey (cello), Jack Byfield (piano)
This classic of the silent screen win be presented in five parts. In it Lon Chaney had his greatest role as Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, a characterisation that was to place him among the cinema's immortals. This first part of the film introduces the Feast of the Fools which takes place outside the Cathedral and Jehan's attempted abduction of the lovely Esmeralda.
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followed by Weather and Close Down