The place: Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
The date: December 17, 1903
The time: noon
Wilbur Wright, using a monorail track and a biplane fitted with skids, made the longest flight of the day - 852 feet in 59 seconds. Powered flight had arrived.
Introduced by Arthur Garratt.
(BBC recording of the programme shown on May 13)
(to 11.45)
Last day's play at Lord's.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.45)
by Charles Dickens.
Adapted in eight parts by John Keir Cross.
[Starring] Margaretta Scott and Peter Wyngarde
(BBC recording, first broadcast in 1957)
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)
Amatuer Boxing: European Championships: Preliminary Rounds
From Lucerne, Switzerland.
and Cricket: M.C.C. v. India
At Lord's.
From Glasgow.
Judged by: 'Michael'; Ailsa Garland, Margot Banister
In the chair, Doreen Stephens, Editor, Women's Programmes
Introduced by John Lindsay.
(BBC recording)
(Previously televised on Dec. 21, 1958)
Scottish result
At Lord's.
A series of wild-life programmes
Introduced by Peter Scott.
(A recording of the broadcast on February 27)
Adapted from the book by Johanna Spyri and produced in six parts by Joy Harington.
Starring Mark Dignam as Grandfather and Sara O'Connor
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20
(On transmitters serving the areas)
At Lord's.
With Kay Cavendish.
An interlude of piano and song.
(BBC recording)
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport - Music - People
Cinema - Theatre - Argument
This week, Cy Grant
and Cricket: close of play scores
A weekly school report.
Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
Starring Professor Jimmy Edwards.
A dramatic film thriller with Herbert Marshall, Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor.
George Steele, a distinguished art critic returns from the war only to find some difficulty in readjusting himself to civilian life. When, however, he uncovers some fakes in a captured Nazi art-collection he becomes the centre of an exciting and dramatic plot...
Raymond Baxter reports.
Medical research has recently uncovered a new approach to the cause and cure of one form of mental deficiency. It has been found that certain types of mental backwardness may be due to the eating of normal foods, which some children are unable to break down in the ordinary way.
Outside Broadcast and film cameras visit scientists engaged on research into one of these diseases, known as Phenylketonuria.
From the Metabolic Unit, Little Bromwich General Hospital, Birmingham and Exeter City Hospital.
A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Liberal Party.
Taking part are:
Jo Grimond, M.P., Liberal Leader, Robin Day, Prospective Liberal Candidate, Hereford, Fred Williams, A former regional organiser of the Labour Party
Interviewed by Francis Boyd, Lobby Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian.
From Lucerne, Switzerland.
