With the naked eye we can see a few of the stars in our own galaxy. The giant optical and radio telescopes have given us a picture of the universe consisting of an enormous number of galaxies separated by immense distances and travelling at fantastic speeds.
Introduced by Donald Holms.
(BBC recording, first shown on October 21)
(to 11.45)
Newyddion y Dydd ynghyd a sgwrs ar ddatblygiadau ym myd y gwyddonydd a'r meddyg
(Daily news, with a talk on developments in the scientific and medical world)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.15)
Introduced by Peter West.
An enquiry into a career in the retail trade, including filmed interviews with young shop assistants.
(Repeated next Tuesday at 2.5 p.m.)
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)
Confidential Quiz
Anona Winn, Peter Bull, Jean Clarke are quizzed by Joy Matthews.
With Robert Beatty keeping the score.
3:15 Cookery Club
Marguerite Patten introduces the winner of this month's Cookery Club Competition, and demonstrates her recipe for a Christmas cake.
(to 15.30)
by John Ruskin
Presented by the BBC Puppet Company
(BBC film)
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At the Clarendon Research Laboratory, Oxford scientists are investigating the strange behaviour of 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.
(Previously shown on the evening of September 10)
A comedy cartoon film about a train robber who did his best to stop the mail train.
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20
A film series.
A notorious Civil War renegade and bandit wills a fortune in hidden contraband to the U.S. Government. Corporal Davis and Luke Cummings encounter unforeseen trouble when the daughter of the dead man contests her father's will.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart and the travelling reporters including Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson.
David Hughes says 'Make Mine Music'
and introduces Anne Shelton, Rob van Reijn and The George Mitchell Singers.
Starring Bob Hope, Natalie Wood, The Crosby Brothers and David Rose and his Orchestra
Special guest, Dean Martin
by Jean Anouilh.
Translated by Lewis Galantiere.
[Starring] Dorothy Tutin, Basil Sydney, Noel Willman, David McCallum
with Sam Kydd
(David McCallum appears by permission of J. Arthur Rank Productions Ltd.; Rosalind Atkinson, by arrangement with the Directors of the Old Vic Trust)
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Seventy years ago, while studying the treatment of patients under hypnosis, Sigmund Freud grasped the full significance of the unconscious mind. Time may well show that this was the beginning of a discovery as important as the splitting of the atom. Hypnosis can sometimes provide a simple and effective way of reaching the unconscious mind and today doctors are using hypnosis as a research technique for exploring the deeper relationship between mind and body, memory and behaviour.
Tonight a consultant psychiatrist and a doctor engaged in this research demonstrate some of the phenomena of hypnosis and discuss its significance.
Gerald Moore introduces a song recital by Hans Hotter, the Austrian bass-baritone.
