by Dr. L. Harrison Matthews

Bats are the only true flying mammals in the world and for this reason are of very great interest. This programme not only shows some of the thirteen kinds of bat known in Britain but also illustrates feeding habits, hibernation, and flight by echo-sounding.
(BBC recording of last Monday's broadcast)
(to 11.45)

Bwrw golwg dros bynciau'r dydd mewn sgwrs a ffilm-a chyfle i gwrdd a rhal ay'n amlwg yn y newyddion.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)

(to 13.30)

Introduced by John Berger.
Animal hides and skins have been used by man since the Stone Age. Some of the skills of the craftsmen handling them today can be seen in this programme.

For the Very Young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(BBC film)
(to 14.45)

Shirley Abicair who tells a story of Tumbarumba.

A serial in six episodes by R.F. Delderfield.
[Starring] Peter Wyngarde, John Moffatt, Rupert Davies, Richard Coleman

(BBC recording of the broadcast on June 1, 1958)

There are giants and dwarfs in the universe. The Sun is a dwarf star, but in 10,000 million years from now it may have become a giant.
How was the sun born, and how will it die? Patrick Moore tells you what astronomers have found out, and explains how to watch the interesting variable stars which brighten and fade like celestial searchlights.

On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20

Percy Thrower shows seasonal work in garden and greenhouse.
Including
Dividing and replanting hardy border plants; Sowing mustard and cress; Sowing peas and broad beans; In pots for April planting; Sowing salvia and antirrhinum seed

Potatoes
A. D. C. Main from Perth, Scotland discusses Diseases-Pests-Controls, Planting and growing methods, Recommended varieties for garden and allotment.
From the BBC's Midland television studio

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

Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton.
[Starring] Tony Hancock
Featuring Sidney James
with Terence Alexander, Vivienne Martin, Cardew Robinson, Cameron Hall, John Vere, Philip Carr, Arthur Mullard, Mario Fabrizi, Ivor Raymonde, Gwenda Ewen, Paddy Edwards, Alec Bregonzi, Edith Stevenson, James Bulloch.

In tonight's recording Perry Como welcomes:
Guest stars and The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra, The Ray Charles Singers, The Louis Da Pron Dancers.
Written by Goodman Ace, Morton Green and George Foster and Jay Burton.

Raymond Glendenning introduces Hall of Fame.
The Sportsview Unit recalls the world's greatest sports stars in action.
Tonight: The Final Test
Some exciting Test Matches which determined the fate of the 'Ashes'. See Bradman, Hammond, Sutcliffe, Leyland, and others in action.

Robert Reid makes a Second Enquiry into some of Britain's social problems in 1959.

A return visit to Manchester to see what progress has been made against one of the greatest evils of our industrial civilisation.
(Made by the BBC North Region Film Unit)

by Anthony Trollope
Adapted for television in six parts by Peter Black

The week's business in Parliament is over. Tonight two M.P.s face a group of their constituents in the BBC's television studio in Glasgow John George M.P.,
Member (Conservative) for Glasgow, Pollok, Dr. J. Dickson Mabon M.P., Member (Labour) for Greenock.
In the chair, Robert McKenzie who calls for questions from the floor.

Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Fifty-six years later, at the end of four years of savage civil war, President Lincoln was murdered. This is the story of those last four years of civil war, of Lincoln's triumph, and of his assassination.
A film produced by the National Broadcasting Company of America

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