No one is really certain how the earth was created, but it is clear that at one time the earth was liquid. Today we know that there is still a liquid core which is surrounded by a mantle and finally a crust up to twenty miles thick. It is on this crust that we all live.
Introduced by Dr. Tom Gaskell
(BBC recording, first shown on October 28)
(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.
A glimpse of factory life, where young people are learning to control machinery.
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)
Indians of the Forest
Stanley Jeeves and John Moore introduce on film some of the people they met on their travels through South America last year during the Oxford and Cambridge Expedition with Audrey Eutt, who lived for over a year with a primitive tribe in British Guiana.
3.15 Cookery Club
Guest Cook Evelyn Rose shows how to make Syrian Sesame Puffs, and discusses Middle East cookery in general with Mrs. Marie Nahum.
From the BBC's North of England studio
(to 15.30)
(See foot of page)
Introduced by Peter Scott
At the Miami Seaquarium in Florida you can watch many large deep sea creatures at close quarters, including sharks, swordfish, moray eels, and octopuses. In this programme dolphins leap high out of the water to receive food from the hands of their trainers, and a surgical operation is performed by vets under water to remove a stone from the inside of a huge fish.
(BBC recording, previously shown on July 24)
by Henry Treece
Adapted in five parts by C.E. Webber
With Peter Bull and Donald Churchill
On transmitters serving the areas:
News from Wales
Major Jefferies from Washington, who mistrusts all Indians, forces Captain Adams to disband his Apache Scouts. When the Major's life is at stake, however, he changes his opinion.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart and the travelling reporters including Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson.
Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
A weekly school report.
[Starring] Professor Jimmy Edwards
with Arthur Howard
See page 5
(See above and page 5)
A film for television
Written, recorded and directed by Philip Donnellan
A film of the building - by a group of British companies - of a great steelworks in Bengal and the changes in village life that it is bringing
With traditional music by Nikhil Banerji (sitar), Ali Akbar Khan (sarad), Ewan McColl and Isla Cameron
by Marcel Achard
Adapted by Felicity Douglas.
Televised direct from the Strand Theatre, London by arrangement with Henry Sherek
(See page 4)
Organised by Mecca Dancing in conjunction with the News of the World
See foot of page
Tonight the Consultant Psychiatrist examines a situation of deep concern to doctors and the general public.
