(BBC film)
(to 10.25)
(to 11.25)
What is streamlining? How does a parachute work? In the first programme of this new science series, Gerd Sommerhoff answers these and other questions about the properties of the air around us.
(to 11.55)
(News in Welsh)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
Pobl yn y newyddion yn ystyried un o bynciau'r dydd yng nghwmnl
T. GLYNNE DAVIES
(Current affairs discussion)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.20)
During this term, instruments of the orchestra will be presented individually. Today they are seen playing together in families, making up a full-sized modern orchestra.
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Hugh Maguire)
Conductor, Harry Newstone
Introduced by Richard Evans.
For the Very Young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(BBC film)
(to 14.45)
at Newbury
Television Outside Broadcast cameras cover three of this afternoon's principal races on the first day of the Ascot Heath September Meeting.
3.30 The Royal Lodge Stakes
4.0 The Gordon Carter Handicap
4.30 The Kinnaird Stakes
Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the Parade Ring.
See Round and About
(to 16.40)
A special edition for The 100th programme.
Including details of a short story competition for Girls and Boys.
Introduced by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams.
When a government agent is murdered and robbed of the plate for printing money, the Range Rider decides that the only way to track down the men who are using it to make forged notes, is to pass himself off as a criminal counterfeiter-and let Dick pursue him!
Introduced by Billy Wright.
A monthly programme presenting film reports and news from the world of sport.
See Junior Radio Times
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from South and West
(Rowridge)
A film visit to exposed seaside gardens on the South Coast to see success-and failure with Hedges-Windbreaks-Fences and Shrubs and plants for windswept gardens.
Percy Thrower introduces J. R. B. Evison (Parks Superintendent, Brighton)
Film sequences by BBC Midland Film Unit
From the BBC's Midland studio
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Trevor Philpott, Polly Elwes.
The finals of some of the events in the Amateur Swimming Association
National Championships.
Among the competitors will be members of the Olympic team.
From the Derby Baths, Blackpool
Off the Malayan coast Hans and Lotte find a variety of remarkable crabs, but the strangest of all are tiny ones living in the sand and extracting their food from it. They make the rejected sand into balls which they lay out in regular patterns as mysterious as the stone lines and circles of prehistoric man.
Directed and produced by Hans Hass in association with the BBC Natural History Unit
(A new film series)
by Anthony Trollope.
Dramatised for television by Marjorie Deans.
In which Mrs. Date gains a son-in-law; Johnnie Eames moves his residence, and Hopkins once again gets his own way.
Robert Harbin invites you to join him in a demonstration of Mystery and Magic
At the organ, Harold Smart
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As man's machines take him higher into the atmosphere and deeper under the sea, the problems of escaping in case of mechanical failure become more serious.
Captain Joseph Kittinger, U.S.A.F. is seen in an experimental parachute descent from a balloon nearly 80,000 feet above the earth.
Commander George Bond, U.S.N. demonstrates a revolutionary method of escaping from a depth of many hundreds of feet without any apparatus and Charles Collingwood talks to both men about their researches.
(A CBS 'Conquest' film)
direct from the Empire Pool and Sports Arena, Wembley where the world's best players compete in the London International Professional Lawn Tennis Championships.
