One quarter of the sugar we use 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, Paul Daneman, George Benson
(BBC recording)
For the Very Young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred songs the songs
(BBC film)
Fashion and Beauty
Introduced by Robert Gladwell with Beryl Gray, Clemence Bettany, Jennifer Hocking, Elizabeth Duke, Christina Gregg, Maureen O'Leary.
What's New from the Spring Collections in make-up and accessories
Boutique
A shop window of the latest id
Right for the Occasion
Country clothes go to town.
The Continental Touch
In day clothes and play clothes
3.20 Collectors Club: What to Collect
In the last two programmes of the present series, Peter Philp discusses the principles of collecting, and offers some suggestions to collectors.
From the BBC's Welsh television studio
(to 15.35)
at Halton, Bucks.
with Raymond Baxter, Cliff Michelmore and Tom Millett and Outside Broadcast cameras.
by Marjorie A. Sindall
Adapted in four episodes by Rosemary Hill
See page 9
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.
Safeguards against Accidents in the house; Burglary
(BBC recording)
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith, and this week. Rory McEwen
From Durham.
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, Mostyn Lewis
v.
The North-East of England
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
Presenting artists new to television.
by Ada F. Kay.
[Starring] William Squire, Sheila Ballantine, Michael Wabbe
The action takes place on a railway journey to a small town in the West Country. The scenes are set in a railway carriage; a station waiting room; and a railway hotel.
From the BBC's West of England studio
A Duel between Men and Whales
Film by Mario Ruspoli
Recently Mario Ruspoli, a Frenchman, returned from the Azores with unique film of whaling from open boats after the manner of 'Moby Dick'. Often carrying his camera within ten feet of the struggling whales, Ruspoli risked his life to bring back a record of a dying industry.
(See page 5)
This film, the first of a series of four made in co-operation with the Civic Trust, tells the story of a party of volunteers who spend their holidays clearing up abandoned service buildings which devastate so much of Britain's landscape.
Introduced by Douglas Jones.
See page 9
introduces Beryl Grey
The Trio
Max Jaffa (violin), Reginald Kilbey (cello), Jack Byfield (piano) and The Singers