What is streamlining? How does a parachute work? In the first programme of this new science series Gerd Sommerhoff answers these and other questions covering the properties of the air around us.
(to 10.25)
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.
(to 11.25)
Alberti was the central figure of a group of Florentine artists and architects who gave impetus to the Renaissance and who included Brunelleschi, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, and Ghilberti.
(BBC recording)
(Repeated on Wednesday at 10.05am)
(to 11.55)
(News in Welsh)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
Cylchgrawn i'r
Henoed Cyfle i gwrdd a chymeriadau
A chlywed rhai o'r hen ganiadait
Y cyflwyno gan Emrys Cleaver
Y rhaglen yng ngofal
I for Rees
(A magazine for the older folk)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.20)
Introduced by Peter West.
Although art is a popular subject at school probably few children realise the variety of interesting jobs it can lead to. In this programme we meet students at a school of art and learn about the careers they intend to follow.
For the Very Young
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
(BBC film)
(to 14.45)
A seasonal programme from 'Somewhere in the garden'.
Introduced by Anthony Oliver who also tells this week's story.
His visitors are:
Gordon Murray, Actors on Strings
Jim Dale, How Not To Do It
Kevin Scott, Song Spot
In this week's exciting Whirlybird adventure, P. T. Moore and Chuck Martin are assigned to a film company on location. P. T. Moore's candid camera gets them into a very tight corner when he sells one of his pictures of an old hermit to a press agent.
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from South and West
(Rowridge)
A programme of Scottish songs and dances with The Edinburgh Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Ian Wallace, Bobby Watson.
The Eskdale Singers
Conductor, Morton Robertson
Lindsay Ross and his Band
Introduced by Alastair MacIntyre.
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Trevor Philpott, Polly Elwes, Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.
says Eamonn Andrews to ?
The Window on the World
Panorama cameras focus on People-Places-Problems that make news.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby with the Panorama team of commentators.
See top of page and Round and About
An adventure serial in six episodes by Donald Wilson.
Starring William Franklyn, Lana Morris, Rona Anderson, Moray Watson, Ewan Roberts
General Campbell has unaccountably disappeared, taking with him the manuscript of his controversial war memoirs. Neither his secretary, Isobel Gilmour, nor his daughter Alison, nor her fiance, Johnny Brookman, can give any hint of his whereabouts. Roger Kenyon, a scientist called in to vet the memoirs, finds himself closely involved in the search.
Peter West introduces the third round of the BBC Inter-Regional Professional Challenge Cup between West Scotland-North East-West and The selection of the North West team for the BBC Inter-Regional Amateur Dancing Contest.
To the music of Phil Moss and his Orchestra
(Organised by Mecca Dancing)
Produced by Ray Lakeland from The Ritz, Manchester
followed by Weather and Close Down
