In today's programme a veterinary surgeon considers not only the animals we all know, but the micro-organisms that live inside sheep, pigs, poultry, and cattle.
(BBC recording of last Wednesday's broadcast)
(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, Paul Daneman, Edgar Wreford, Colin Jeavons, 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 stags the songs
(BBC film)
3.10 Champion Hurdle Challenge Cup
With 4,000 sovereigns added to a sweepstakes over two miles
3.50 United Hunts' Challenge Cup
A Plate of 1,000 sovereigns over three miles and a half
4.25 Cheltenham Grand Annual Steeplechase Challenge Cup
A handicap of 2,000 sovereigns over two miles
Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the paddock before each race.
Film showing camping sites by the Mediterranean and favourite holiday routes in Italy and France. With John Lindsay talking to people who toured in different parts of Europe last summer.
by Marjorie A. Sindall
Adapted in four episodes by Rosemary Hill
A film showing how a large passenger liner, the S.S. Dunnottar Castle, is got ready for her journey, and how she leaves the King George V Docks in London at the start of her voyage to South Africa.
BBC Children's Film Unit Production
(Previously shown on Aug. 20, 1957)
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 and Kenneth Toye
From the BBC's West of England studio
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, Mostyn Lewis, Edward Moult
v.
The West of England
Margaret Quarterman, Ralph Whitlock, Vincent Waite
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
Presenting artists new to television.
by Denis Constanduros.
With Helen Cherry, Jack Allen and Tim Seely
(Tim Seely appears by arrangement with Ealing M.G.M. Artists Ltd.)
A monthly series in which Outside Broadcast and film cameras tell how one incident can change one person's life.
Mark Rea, who was with the Royal Marine Commandos during the war, tells how he wrecked his life and then ran out of a pub one night into a different world. Here he rebuilt his own life and learned to help others to rebuild theirs.
Tonight in an Outside Broadcast from shanties on a rubbish dump in the North of England he introduces Hywel Davies to some of the extremely cheerful people who are his friends and to other lonely and friendless men who refuse all help.
Film sequences by the BBC Film Unit, Scotland
This film, the third in a series made in co-operation with the Civic Trust, tells the story of one man's efforts to save an otherwise lovely road from ruin. 'The Pembury Road could be as fine as a Duke's drive', says Walter Coltham, who is fighting the muddle and indifference which are threatening its appearance. In this sense the Pembury Road stretches a long way - from Land's End to John o' Groats.
Introduced by Douglas Jones.
invites you to join him at The Royal Pavilion, Brighton.
With Gilbert Harding
The Trio: Max Jaffa (violin), Reginald Kilbey (cello), Jack Byfield (piano)
The Linden Singers
Conductor, William Llewellyn
and The Court Dancers
(See page 9)