One quarter of the sugar used in this country comes from sugar beet. In today's programme John Anderson shows how sugar beet is grown and how the sugar is extracted from it.
(BBC recording first shown on Feb. 4)
(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, Walter Hudd, William Squire, Colin Jeavons, George Benson
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your children and invites them to join in songs and games.
(BBC film)
Holidays: 5: Farm Holidays for Families
With Tom Salmon who introduces film taken on farms in Devon and Cornwall.
From the BBC's West Region studio
3.20 Dress Sense Competition
Prize: A Trip to Paris
Doreen Stephens, Editor, Women's Programmes introduces a new television competition to find the woman viewer with the Best Dress Sense with Ailsa Garland and Alison Settle.
John Witty intervenes as a mere man.
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(to 15.35)
How the old lighthouse nearly lost his fob.
A Morton Schindel cartoon based on the book by Hildegard Swift and Lynd Ward.
(Previously shown on Dec. 19, 1957)
A Rubovian legend written and produced by Gordon Murray.
(BBC recording)
A wild-life programme
Introduced by Peter Scott
For many animals-birds, reptiles, insects, and fish-life begins in the egg. Today Peter Scott shows a specially compiled film which highlights the amazing variety of methods that animals use to hatch out their young.
(The Grunnion sequence from the film "Dust or Destiny" is shown by arrangement with Fact and Faith Films)
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.
More ideas for the kitchen
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
from the BBC's Scottish Studio, Glasgow
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, Edward Moult, Mostyn Lewis
v.
Scotland: Elizabeth Meldrum, Thomas Mountain, Archie Campbell
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
by Kenneth John.
Tonight's play deals with a group of four soldiers who set off from a British base in the Western Desert in 1942 to take supplies to an observation post behind enemy lines. But after receiving a routine security message their suspicions are aroused that one of them may be a German spy...
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Raymond Baxter reports.
The story of the M.A.S.E.R.: Micro-wave Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation.
Tonight's Eye on Research shows one of the most important developments on the frontiers of physics. Outside Broadcast and film cameras visit scientists who are making crystals and using them to amplify the whispers of radio noise from outer space.
From The Clarendon Laboratory Oxford; The Royal Radar Establishment Malvern;
The Office of Naval Research Washington, D.C.
Stanley Black and his Orchestra with Marion Keene, Srimati Indrani.
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In the last part of this classic silent film Esmeralda is united with Captain Phoebus, and the Hunchback, played by Lon Chaney, has his final revenge on the wicked Jehan and the people of Paris.
followed by Weather and Close Down
