(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.15)
(BBC film)
Family Affairs
Going back to School
Edward Blishen, a schoolmaster, gives his impressions of this event.
Insurance in the Home
Leslie Catchpole, an insurance official, gives advice on insuring your house and its contents.
Holiday Snapshot: Competition Result
John Chillingworth shows his choice of the best family snapshots, and announces the winner.
Introduced by Elisabeth Beresford.
3.15 London Town Scrapbook
Stories on film from past editions of 'London Town'.
Commentary by Richard Dimbleby
(First shown in 1953)
(to 15.30)
Introduced by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams.
Including:
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers: Part One
A story by Beatrix Potter with the original pictures.
Two travelling salesmen see Champion, and, thinking he is a wild stallion, they lasso him. At the next town Champion is exhibited as 'Dynamite, the Killer Horse'. Ricky and Rebel find him at the rodeo and try to win him back, but the Sheriff rules that the showmen have captured him legally. How can Ricky rescue Champion now?
Introduced by Bruce Campbell.
Mice, voles, and shrews, Jane Burton
Moth-hunting, Hugh Newman
Club Room, Leslie Jackman
From the BBC's West of England studio
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20
Sergeant Bullock is proud when his nephew Jed arrives as a recruit to the troop at Fort Lowell, but his hopes are dashed when the boy appears to be a coward. Given the opportunity to redeem himself, Jed seizes it with both hands, and proves that he possesses the makings of a good soldier.
Look around with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Macdonald Hastings and the travelling reporters including Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson.
The Fastest Show in Black and White
Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
Conducted by George Mitchell
and also starring Stan Stennett and The Television Toppers, George Chisholm's Jazzers, Roy Budd, The Jackpots, Dai Francis, Tony Mercer, John Boulter.
The Minstrel Orchestra conducted by Eric Robinson
(Leader, David McCallum)
A series of true stories of the search for spies in wartime Britain.
(See page 5)
At the Clarendon Research Laboratory, Oxford scientists are investigating the strange behaviour ot substances in hundreds of degrees of frost.
This BBC film shows some of their exciting experiments at temperatures where ordinary mercury becomes as solid as a hammer and liquid air 'boils'.
Commentary spoken by Michael Flanders
The first International of the new season is televised tonight direct from the Queen's Theatre, Rhyl.
A film about the life of the churches, chapels, and farms in and around the Cornish village of Duloe, where traditional and modern living compete for the attention of the coming generation.
Introduced by Tom Salmon.
Written and directed by John Irving.
A BBC West Region production
(Previously shown on March 29)
Kevin Scott and Sally Bazely with songs by Cole Porter accompanied by the Norman Percival Quintet.
(BBC recording)
