Introduced by Percy Thrower.
Dr. L.C. Luckwill of Long Ashton Horticultural Research Station, explains some of the work scientists are doing to improve crop yields and the quality of fruit.

(BBC recording of the broadcast first shown on February 11)
(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, Walter Hudd, Paul Daneman, Colin Jeavons, George Benson
with Brian Moorehead and Martini Gordon
(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 sings the songs
(BBC film)

Holidays: 6: Taking your car to the Continent
Film showing cars being ferried abroad by air and sea with John Lindsay who talks to experts and holiday-makers about their motoring on the Continent last year.

3.20 Tell Me, Doctor
Dr. Winifred de Kok discusses viewers' letters.
Letters should be sent to Dr. Winifred de Kok, [address removed]

(to 15.35)

by Marjorie A. Sindall
Adapted for television by Rosemary Hill

A wild-life programme
Introduced by Peter Scott

Per Host is a famous Norwegian explorer and naturalist who has spent many years filming the habits and migrations of reindeer in Lapland.
Recently he flew over from Norway to show Peter Scott some of his remarkable films, including a detailed study of Arctic seals.

(Recording of the broadcast on December 18, 1958)

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.

Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Cy Grant

from Belle Vue, Manchester.
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 Regulars
Mitzi Cunliffe, Edward Moult, Mostyn Lewis
v.
The North of England
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann

by Vincent Tilsley
From the BBC's Midland television studio
See page 5

(See above)
(Ronald Lewis and Raymond Nelson appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd., and William Reid by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
(Arthur Jacobs writes on page 9)

(Il Tabarro)
An opera in one act.
The action takes place on a barge anchored by Notre Dame on the Seine.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Steven Staryk)
Conducted by William Reid

Raymond Baxter reports.
A visit to C.E.R.N. near Geneva.

The giant particle accelerators - the cyclotron and the synchrotron - are the marvels of our age, in size, in cost, in the precision of their design, and in the engineering skills required to build them. They enable the nuclear physicist to study the interaction of mass and energy within the tiny nucleus which is the heart of the atom.
Arranged in collaboration with an Outside Broadcast Unit of the Swiss Television Service.

This film, the second in a series made in co-operation with the Civic Trust, tells the story of a family who move from the slums into a new housing estate in Birmingham. It shows something of the feelings of a young widow, her two boys, and their cat, from the day that the removal van arrives until they have settled down to a new way of life.
Introduced by Douglas Jones.

Stanley Black and his Orchestra with Marion Keene and Guests.

followed by Weather and Close Down