Why do animals need to move from one place to another? In today's programme John Barlee answers this question and shows how the limbs of some of the vertebrates are specially suited to walking or running, to jumping, or to climbing.
(BBC recording of last Monday's programme)
(to 11.45)
Bwrw golwg dros bynciau'r dydd mewn sgwrs a ffilm-chyfle i gwrdd a rhai ay'n amlwg yn y newyddion.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.30)
Introduced by Donald Holms.
Earlier in this series you saw individual craftsmen at work. Now you see how their skill is used to realise the vision of the designer.
For the Very Young
(BBC film)
BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras cover three of this afternoon's races.
3.0 The Foxhill Cup Hunters' Steeplechase over 3 miles
3.30 The Bath Road Handicap Hurdle Race over 3 miles and 120 yards
4.0 The Paddington Handicap Steeplechase over 21 miles
Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the paddock before each race.
(to 16.10)
...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 15, 1958)
Robin Redbreast
Birds will soon be building their nests. This film shows how American robins bring up their babies.
and
Chocolate Story
This film will make your mouth water, as it shows you how chocolate is made.
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
Plants anemones; Sows broad beans round peas, and parsnips; Plants shallots, garlic, and herbs and with John T. Warren, Gardens Manager of the Electrical Research Association at Reading shows seasonal greenhouse work including
Seed Sowing; Boxing gloxinia and begonia tubers; Repotting ferns and The future use of artificial light for greenhouse forcing
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
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton.
[Starring] Tony Hancock
Featuring Sidney James
with Campbell Singer, John Vere, Hugh Lloyd, Laurie Webb, Graham Leaman, Arthur Mullard, Anne Marryott
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.
A new film series. True stories of the American West.
At the end of the Mexican War in 1849, the demobilised soldiers were eager to stake their claims to land from which they could earn a living. But land rich in salt was more than tempting; it was a necessity from which sprang more personal warfare.
A series of wild-life programmes.
Introduced by Peter Scott.
A composite picture of the island of South Georgia seen through the eyes of a wild-life photographer, Niall Rankin, and of an explorer and map-maker, Duncan Carse.
South Georgia lies between latitude 40° and the Antarctic Circle. Many kinds of seals and penguins live around its shores, and it is one of the homes of the great sea bird - the Wandering Albatross.
(BBC recording)
(To be repeated later in Children's Television)
(Duncan Carse writes on page 7)
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 a public hall in Bolton.
Charles Fletcher-Cooke, Q.C., M.P., Member (Conservative) for the Danweni Division of Lancashire and Fred Lee, M.P., Member (Labour) for the Newton Division of Lancashire.
In the chair, Robert McKenzie who calls for questions from the floor.
On the day of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's return, a BBC News Film looks back over Her Majesty's visits to Kenya and Uganda.
Introduced and narrated by Audrey Russell, who has been on this Royal tour as a reporter for the BBC.
Starring Phil Silvers as Sergeant Bilko.
Bilko decides that there is a fortune in the face of his new recruit. But he has still to reckon with Doberman-and the General.
followed by Weather and Close Down
