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 10.25)
Introduced by Richard Evans.
Richard Adeney (flute), Gabor Reeves (clarinet), Colin Chambers (piccolo) and Tom McCall (accompanist)
(to 11.25)
Apart from his paintings, the notebooks, drawings, and letters of Leonardo da Vinci all display his protean range of studies. Botany, Geology, Anatomy, and Military Science were only a few of his interests.
Introduced by John Broadbent.
(to 11.55)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
Cylchgrawn i'r henoed
Cyfle i gwrdd d chymeriadau
A chlywed rhai o'r hen ganiadau Y cyflwyno gan Emrys Cleaver
Y rhaglen yng ngofal Ifor Rees
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.20)
Introduced by Peter West.
Johnny is sixteen and apprenticed to a butcher in the North of England. He is seen at work, and attending classes at technical college.
For the Very Young
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
with McDonald Hobley
A travelling diversion to various parts of the country.
The Guests: Cyril Fletcher, The Steve Benbow Folk Four
The Musicians: Andrew Fenner, Harry Smith, Steve Gauna, Roy Webster
with
Quizzicalities
A quiz to test local knowledge.
See Round and About
Directed by Reg Perrin from the BBC's Midland television studio
(to 15.30)
A magazine programme for younger viewers.
Introduced by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams.
Including:
Packi's Caravan: 3
Told and drawn by Tony Hart.
and
Making Your Own Den
Shown by Tony Key.
Diamonds have been smuggled from Mexico. P. T. and Chuck are accused, their helicopter has been seen over the borders, can they prove their innocence and discover the real smugglers?
looks at what goes on in the world around us.
A news magazine for South-East England.
Film of the Oxford and Cambridge expedition to South America.
At least one expedition has foundered on the three-hundred-mile cattle trail through the jungle from Georgetown, British Guiana, to the Rupununi Savannahs.
Seven graduates in three trucks make a determined attempt to break through.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Trevor Philpott, Polly Elwes and Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.
'This Is Your Life' 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.
An adventure serial in six episodes by Donald Wilson.
Starring William Franklyn, Lana Morris, Rona Anderson, Moray Watson, Ewan Roberts
Just before General Campbell's memoirs were due to be published, not only part of the manuscript but the General himself suddenly disappeared, to the consternation of his daughter Alison and the surprise of Roger Kenyon.
Meanwhile the General's secretary, Isobel Gilmour, has also left London, and the last link with the missing author was broken, until the Rev. Murdo Aitcheson arrived out of the blue to warn Alison that her father was in Scotland on very private business, and that Isobel was secretly on her way to join him.
Starring George Burns and Gracie Allen.
The return of two old favourites in a new film series.
When Ronnie brings home an English girl friend, Gracie invites the girl's mother, Lady Crawford, to tea and goes all out to impress her titled guest with the Allen family history.
Peter West introduces the fourth round of the BBC Inter-Regional Professional Challenge Cup between East Scotland - North West - East Midlands and The selection of the West Scotland team for the BBC Inter-Regional Amateur Dancing Contest.
To the music of Gene Mayo and his Orchestra
Organised by Mecca Dancing
Produced by Alan Rees from The Locarno, Glasgow
Kenneth Harris and Robert Kee report on the first day of the Labour Party Conference.
From a special BBC television studio in Scarborough
