The evolution of man has fitted him to live in the special conditions existing on the earth's crust. He has never been more than twenty miles up from the surface of the earth, and in order to do this he must isolate himself in a cabin within which the air pressure must be kept up.
Introduced by Arthur Garratt.
(BBC recording, first shown on November 25)
(to 11.45)
Newyddion y Dydd ynghyd a sgwrs ar ddatblygiadau ym myd y gwyddonydd a'r meddyg.
(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.
This programme shows how the young worker will have to adjust himself to a new status, a new set of personal relationships, and a new code of behaviour.
Script by Ronald Smurthwaite, Careers Advisory Officer to the Chartered Insurance Institute
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
(BBC film)
Fashion and Beauty
Introduced by Robert Gladwell with Helen Connor, Beryl Gray, Christina Gregg, Jennifer Hocking, Barbro Mendoza, Barbara Muira.
At Home and Abroad
A selection of clothes by the Fashion Group of London which are earning Britain an international reputation in the fashion world.
Boutique
A shop window of new ideas and accessories.
Have You Ever Had A Facial?
Maureen O'Leary visits a Beauty Salon.
Glamour After Six
Evening dresses for the party season.
3.15 Tell me, Doctor
Dr. Winifred de Kok discusses viewers' letters.
(to 15.30)
A film based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.
All the animals are so unkind to the little bird who is so unlike the other members of the family that at last he runs away and lives by himself. Then one day his true nature appears.
The story of a Christmas card.
Filmed at a Greeting Card Factory in Leeds
(See Junior Radio Times)
From the novel by Henry Treece
Adapted for television in five parts by C.E. Webber
With Peter Bull and Donald Churchill
(Charles Leno is in "A Glimpse of the Sea" at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the English Regions
News from Wales 6.15-6.20
A new trooper, Private Spanner, becomes the Fort's 'jinx', but when he blunders into an Apache trap his reputation proves to be his saving grace.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Alan Whicker, Derek Hart, Fyfe Robertson and Cy Grant.
Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
A weekly school report.
[Starring] Professor Jimmy Edwards
with Arthur Howard
by Jack Popplewell.
[Starring] Margaret Lockwood, Yolande Donlan, Frank Lawton
Televised direct from the Duke of York's Theatre, London.
(by arrangement with Peter Saunders)
(See pages 4 and 5)
A world-wide report on Scientific Research.
See top of page and page 3
The scientist looks at the living cell and the mysteries of the origins of life on earth.
Professor Michael Swann and Raymond Baxter introduce contributions from:
Europe - Dr. S. Brenner and Robert Horne, The Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; Professor F.G. Young, F.R.S., Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge; Professor L.S. Penrose, F.R.S., The Galton Laboratory, University College, London; Dr. M. Mitchison, Department of Zoology, University of Edinburgh; Dr. M. Grunberg-Manago, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris
United States of America - Dr. M. Meselson, California Institute of Technology; Dr. Sober, National Cancer Institute; Dr. Britton Chance, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. David E. Green, Institute of Enzyme Research, University of Wisconsin; Dr. Harold C. Urey, University of California, La Jolla; Dr. Melvin Calvin, University of California, Berkeley
American film sequences directed by Derek Burrell-Davis and made in co-operation with the United States Information Services
U.S.S.R. - Academician A.I. Oparin, A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry Filming arranged for the BBC by Moscow Radio
(The BBC would like especially to acknowledge the help of Will Burtin and the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Manchester, for the help in the preparation of this programme)
Szymon Goldberg plays Mozart's Violin Concerto in A, K.219 with the London Mozart Players
Conductor, Harry Blech
The programme also includes Mozart's Overture, The Marriage of Figaro and Symphony No. 32 in G, K.318.
Introduced by Antony Hopkins.
(In the next programme of this series on December 15, Clifford Curzon plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Norman Del Mar)
The second of a series of three programmes in which Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth introduce excerpts from their recent show.
This programme includes rod puppets from Poland and Java; a short play, 'Fly by Night'; and a topical shadow cartoon by Neville Main.
followed by Weather and Close Down
