John Anderson shows how plant breeders have developed different strains of wheat for different purposes. In a filmed visit to the Cereals Research Station you see how the scientist tests the properties of flour milled from the various types of grain.
(BBC recording of last Wednesday's programme)
(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, William Squire, Colin Jeavons, George Benson
(BBC recording)
For the Very Young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your children and invites them to join in songs and games.
(BBC film)
Holidays: 4: Coach Tours Abroad
Film taken in Luxembourg, Germany, and Switzerland of coach parties en route with John Lindsay who puts questions to experts and holidaymakers about bookings, costs and touring experiences.
3.20 Report from Paris
Introduced by Robin Scott.
From the studio of Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise
(to 15.35)
People do not think much of Mike and his shovel until, one day, a job of work has to be done in double quick time. Can Mike do it?
A Morton Schindel cartoon based on the book by Virginia Lee Burton.
(Previously shown on Jan. 16, 1958)
Marie, a Swiss girl, has a pen pal in England. This film shows the people and the town she describes in her letters.
(Conclusion)
The story of Louis Pasteur by Nesta Pain
With Hugh David as Pasteur
(BBC recording)
(On transmitters serving the areas)
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20
A weekly 'Do It Yourself' programme with Barry Bucknell.
Making a combined bedside table and bedhead
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Rory McEwen
from the BBC's Welsh Studio, Cardiff.
A general knowledge contest based on the 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, Edward Moult, Arthur Maddocks
v.
Wales
Marguerite Bird, Daniel Evans, Cynric Mytton-Davies
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
Presenting artists new to television.
(From the BBC's North of England studio)
(see page 4)
A monthly series in which Outside Broadcast and film cameras tell how one incident can change one person's life.
Sarmite, daughter of a once wealthy Latvian family, tells Hywel Davies how, from a Displaced Persons' Camp in Germany, she came to be at Nottingham University through the venture in faith of an English schoolmistress.
In a camp in Germany Christopher Chataway hears about the problems of ten thousand other children of displaced persons, who have no future.
Film sequences by the BBC Film Unit, Scotland
See page 5
introduces The Trio
Max Jaffa (violin), Reginald Kilbey (cello), Jack Byfield (piano), The Linden Singers
Conductor, William Llewellyn
(born February 3, 1809)
A film of Fingal's Cave in honour of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth.
