Introduced by a doctor.

Each person in Britain consumes about forty gallons of water a day; water that is used in homes, schools, offices, and in industry. The purification of water on such a scale sets problems that science can help to solve.
This programme traces the story of a glass of water from a river source through storage, purification, and distribution, to the kitchen tap.
( first shown on May 11)
(to 11.45)

(News in Welsh)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)

Awgrymiadau ar gyfer y ty a'r teulu
Y cyflwyno gan Nest Williams
Y rhaglen yng ngofal
Teleri Bevan
(A magazine for the housewife)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)

(to 13.20)

Brian Hope-Taylor introduces a series for younger children showing some of the ways in which Man has lived from the Old Stone Age to the time of the Romans.

Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in songs and games.
(BBC film)

Viewers' questions answered spontaneously by Ruth Drew, Rosemary McRobert,
Frances Perry, Herman Schrijver.
In the chair, Max Robertson

Introduced by Robin Scott.
From the studios of Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise
(to 15.30)

A look round the countryside in May with Ion Trant.
From the BBC's Midland television studio

A film series about people and animals from all over the world.
Royal swans, a delicate lamb, and two baby otters are among the animals you can see in this edition.

A serial in six episodes by Eric Allen.

A news magazine for South-East England.

News from South and West
(Rowridge)

Hans Hass and his team of scientists exploring underwater life in the Indian Ocean, discover an enchanting coral forest deep in a valley below a lonely wreck. Here hundreds of fish meet, make love, lay eggs, and protect themselves against their enemies.

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor.

Plays of village life by Bill Naughton and Allan Prior.
[Starring] Wilfred Pickles
with Edna Morris
From the BBC's North of England television studio

Written by Robert Barr.
A series of dramatised documentaries about the Metropolitan Police.
This is the story of a robbery attempted on a scale unprecedented in British criminal history, and its prevention by the skill and personal bravery of men of the Divisional C.I.D., the Flying Squad, and Security men of BOAC.

Joan Regan says Be My Guest
and invites Dickie Valentine, Beryl Reid, Elizabeth Larner, Malcolm Goddard,
Eithne Milne, The George Mitchell Singers.
Written by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass.

A series on the current work of Fellows of the Royal Society.
With Nicholas Kurti, F.R.S.
The temperature at the South Pole is -70° C. The temperature of outer space is -270° C. In many laboratories, scientists have achieved temperatures lower still. Recently in Oxford a temperature has been reached that is only one millionth of a degree above the unobtainable absolute zero of -273° C.
Outside broadcast cameras visit the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford to meet the scientists studying the extraordinary behaviour of matter at these extreme temperatures.
See Round and About

[Starring] Kenneth McKellar
with his guest Lucille Graham
and the BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Nugent)
Conductor, Jack Leon
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland

The exciting adventures of the famous Western Stagecoach Service.
[Starring] Dale Robertson

Rather than give themselves up to their old friend, Jim Hardie, the two Dalton brothers take the hard way out and pay heavily for it.

A new novel by Alistair MacLean.
Read in ten parts by John Slater.

followed by Weather and Close Down