by Professor W.S. Bullough.
In the first programme of this new series Professor Bullough introduces some of the animals in his own garden and explains how they can be divided into two main groups-those with backbones, and those without.
(to 10.25)
(to 11.25)
The story of a visit by an Oxford University Expedition to this remote island in the Indian Ocean, which for six months of each year is cut off from the rest of the world by the high seas and raging wind of the summer monsoon.
Filmed and introduced by Douglas Botting.
(to 11.55)
(News in Welsh)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
Awgrymiadau ar gyfer y ty ar teulu
Y cyflwyno gan Nest Williams
Y rhaglen yng ngofal Television Bevan
(A magazine for the housewife)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.20)
by Titus Maccius Plautus.
Translated and produced by Rosemary Hill.
[Starring] Geoffrey Lumsden, Robert Gillespie
For the Very Young
(BBC film)
(and some cats, too)
Stanley Dangerfield looks at some artists' views of dogs of the past, and introduces some of their present day descendants, including collies, alsatians, and miniature poodles.
Guest personality: Popocatepetl with George Cansdale
See Round and About
Guest, Dorothy Sleightholme, shows how to make this delicious cake from her own original recipe.
(to 15.35)
Introduced by Ion Trant.
From the BBC's Midland television studio
What is it like when you go into hospital for the first time? In this film, a schoolboy tells how he enjoyed his stay at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in Hackney.
See Junior Radio Times
by Wilkie Collins.
Dramatised in seven episodes by A. R. Rawlinson.
with James Hayter, Patrick Cargill, James Sharkey, Mary Webster, Annabelle Lee
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from South and West
(Rowridge)
In Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, Armand and Michaela Denis go shopping and visit the Temple of the Tortoise. While still in the city, Michaela has her fortune told and then they go off upcountry to meet the Rade people.
(A film first shown on Dec. 11, 1959)
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Trevor Philpott, Polly Elwes.
Stories of the 'Mounties'
A film series, starring Gilles Pelletier as Corporal Jacques Gagnier.
To bring an injured trapper to safety through a raging blizzard and in a sub-zero temperature is hazardous enough for Corporal Gagnier and Constable Frank Scott, but when the injured man is determined not to be saved.....
(A BBC film release)
A play with music by Peter Myers and Ronald Cass.
See page 7
by Alec Coppel.
[Starring] Ian Carmichael, Moira Lister, Michael Goodliffe
Televised direct from the Savoy Theatre, London (by arrangement with Harold Fielding)
See foot of page and Round and About
The films of Luis Bunuel
Introduced by Derek Prouse with extracts from 'L'Age d'Or', 'Land without Bread',
'Los Olvidados', 'El', 'Robinson Crusoe', 'The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz'.
See Round and About
Leonard Pennario (piano)
(A journey through the Vale of Glamorgan)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace only)
(to 23.42)
