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Do you know that a ton and a half of air is pressing on this page of Radio Times?
Today Gerd Sommerhoff goes up the BBC Television Mast at Crystal Palace to show how pressure changes with height, and describes some of the ways in which we can use the pressure of air to help in our everyday life.
(to 11.55)

Contributors

Presenter:
Gerd Sommerhoff
Producer:
Lawrie Lawler
Producer:
Geoffrey Hall

A magazine programme for younger viewers.
Introduced by Christopher Trace.
Including

Packi's Caravan
Told and drawn by Tony Hart.

and
Pollyanna
An extract from the new Walt Disney film.

Contributors

Presenter:
Christopher Trace
Artist/narrator (Packi's Caravan):
Tony Hart
Producer:
John Hunter Blair

Autumn work in the vegetable garden and greenhouse with Percy Thrower.
Begonias - Delphiniums - Polyanthus
Vital treatment for winter care from Allan Langdon (Somerset).
From the BBC's Midland television studio

Contributors

Presenter:
Percy Thrower
Item presenter:
Allan Langdon
Producer:
Paul Morby

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

Contributors

Presenter:
Cliff Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek Hart
Reporter:
Alan Whicker
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
John Morgan
Reporter:
Trevor Philpott
Reporter:
Polly Elwes
Singer:
Robin Hall
Singer/guitarist:
Jimmie Macgregor
Associate producer:
Antony Jay
Associate producer:
Gordon Watkins
Associate producer:
Tony Essex
Assistant editor:
Alasdair Milne
Editor:
Donald Baverstock

After looking at Singapore and its islands from the air, Hans and Lotte dive off the southernmost point of Asia. Many of the animals they find are different from those of the Indian Ocean, including the little razor fish which swim head downwards; Hans chases a group and dances a fantastic ballet with them.
Directed and produced by Hans Hass in association with the BBC Natural History Unit
(A new film series)

Contributors

Diver/photography/directed and produced by:
Hans Hass
Diver:
Lotte Hass
Photography:
Kurt Hirschel
Editor:
Paul Khan
Sound:
Stanley Schofield

by Charles Dickens.
Dramatised for television in thirteen episodes by Michael Voysey

1775 In which Gabriel Varden, the locksmith, visits the Maypole Inn, incurs his wife's displeasure, and we hear of a murder.
(See panel and page 6)

Contributors

Author:
Charles Dickens
Dramatised by:
Michael Voysey
Director:
Morris Barry
Designer:
Stephen Bundy
Producer:
Douglas Allen
John Willet:
Arthur Brough
Phil Parkes:
John Atkinson
Tom:
Cobb Tony Sympson
Solomon Daisy:
John Gill
Mr. Edward Chester:
Bernard Brown
The Stranger:
Nigel Arkwright
Joe Willet:
Alan Haywood
Gabriel Varden:
Newton Blick
Mrs. Varden:
Joan Hickson
Miss Miggs:
Barbara Hicks
Dolly Varden:
Jennifer Daniel
Barnaby Rudge:
John Wood
Mrs. Rudge:
Isabel Dean

Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York from 1932 until 1945, was one of this century's most colourful and controversial politicians. In this film we see the indefatigable 'Little Flower' routing out gangsters and racketeers; supervising city fire-fighters; conducting the New York Philharmonic-and even reading the comic strips on the radio during a newspaper strike.
(A CBS 'Twentieth Century' film)

Contributors

Producer:
Burton Benjamin

BBC Television

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