One-fifth of the earth's land surface is covered with grass. In today's programme John Anderson explains the importance of this crop to man and to his domestic animals.
(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)
Adapted from the history plays of William Shakespeare and produced by Ronald Eyre
[Starring] Roger Livesey, Robert Harris, Colin Jeavons with George Benson.
With Martin Gordon, Michael Greenwood
(BBC recording)
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
(BBC film)
Holidays: 3: Sketching and Painting
Film of holidaymakers in an Italian fishing village with John Lindsay who puts questions to Harry Riley and some people who started painting while on holiday last year.
3.20 Tell Me, Doctor
Dr. Winifred de Kok discusses viewers' letters.
Letters should be sent to Dr. Winifred do Kok, [address removed]
(to 15.35)
Pupils of the Girls' Grammar School and the Boys' Grammar School, Pontypridd, discuss the subject: 'Keep Your Hair On! - is good advice'
In the chair, Hywel Davies
The story of Louis Pasteur in four parts by Nesta Pain
With Hugh David as Pasteur
(BBC recording)
(On transmitters serving the areas)
News from Wales 6.15-6.20
More ideas for the bed-sitter.
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, Cy Grant and Noel Harrison
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
Mitzi Cunliffe, Mostyn Lewis, Edward Moult
v.
The Midlands
Margaret Cooke, Arthur Constance, The Marquess of Hertford
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
by Robert Kemp
[Starring] Rona Anderson and Tom Fleming
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland
(See page 3)
Raymond Baxter reports.
Outside Broadcast cameras show some of the ways in which microscopes are used in research.
The Optical Microscope demonstrated by Dr. G. Barer, Department of Anatomy, Oxford University.
The Electron Microscope demonstrated by A. W. Agar, AEON Laboratories, Egham and Dr. J. Nutting and Dr. G. Thomas, Department of Metallurgy, Cambridge University.
The Field Emission Microscope demonstrated by Dr. M. Drechsler, Max-Planck Institute, Dahlem University from the studios of the West Berlin Television Service.
A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party by The Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Lloyd M.P., Minister of Education.
Stanley Black and his Orchestra with Marion Keene and Los Paraguayos.
