by Professor W.S. Bullough.
Anyone who searches a pond at the right time of year may find the tadpoles of frogs and toads and probably newts as well. The programme illustrates the way of life both of British amphibians and of some of their more exotic cousins from warmer lands.
(to 10.25)
A day in the life of the Chinese crew who work on one of the hundreds of fishtraps or Kelongs to be found in the warm and shallow waters off the coast of Singapore.
Introduced by David Kennard.
(to 11.55)
(News in Welsh)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
Awgrymiadau ar gyfer y ty ar tedlu
Y cyflwyno gan Nest Williams
Y rhaglen yng ngofal Teleri Bevan
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.20)
by Luigi Pirandello.
Translated by Robert Rietty.
With Doreen Murray (soprano), Lionel Solomon (piccolo), Freddie Phillips (guitar).
For the Very Young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in the songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Introduced by Brian Redhead with Elizabeth Jane Howard.
Guests of the month: Penelope Mortimer, Naomi Lewis, Eric Newton and Wilfred Pickles
Guest, Victor Sassie shows how to make the fine lace-like pastry which is traditional to Apfelstrudel.
(to 15.35)
A Rubovian legend by Gordon Murray.
Presented by the BBC Puppet Theatre
Introduced by Peter Scott.
Each spring the country people of Schleswig-Holstein welcome back the storks by arranging supports and supplies of twigs on their roofs which the birds can use for nest building.
The film tells the story through a single summer of the storks' first arrival, their choosing of a nest and finding a mate, laying eggs and bringing up the young birds to an age when they, too, are ready to set off for their winter homes.
A news magazine for South-East England.
with Outside Broadcasts on 'The Method'
What is Method acting?; Who are these people who stress the value of talking gibberish and the importance of being a chimpanzee?
Theatre critic Bernard Levin and Keith Fordyce attend a session of the Stanislavsky Studio in London.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Trevor Philpott, Polly Elwes and Robin Hall, Jimmy Macgregor.
The final stages of the Daily Express Foxhunter Championship
This season nearly 2,000 novice horses have competed throughout the country in Foxhunter Competitions. Of these thirty-six have now qualified for the final of this great Championship.
Direct from the Empire Pool and Sports Arena, Wembley.
A new series of true stories of the search for spies in wartime, based on the experiences of Lt.-Colonel Oreste Pinto.
With Bernard Archard as Colonel Pinto.
presents stars from the Hungarian State Circus
The Three Peters, The Six Biros, The Andrassettis
with Stars of the Big Top
Billy Smart. Jnr. and his Elephants, Reco and May, The Tramp on the Wire
Bartschelly balancing a hundred tumblers
The Four Jungoves ladder balance on moving car
Introduced by Sir Alan Cobham.
The story of flight, this century's most phenomenal development, seen through the eyes of one of Britain's foremost pioneers in aviation.
A series of four programmes produced by Nicholas Crocker
Javier de Leon's Mexican Dance Company in a programme of Aztec and Mexican dances with the Princess Teo Xochitl, Virginia Alvarado, Mario Dominguez, Salvador Hernandez, Raul Leon, Aurelio Ochoa, Mario Salguero, Maritza Caloca, Jose Calderon, Anita Saenz, Aracclia Chavira and the Mariachi Mexicano de Jalisco de Jose Velasco.
Kenneth Harris and Robert Kee report on the second day of the Labour Party Conference.
From a special BBC television studio in Scarborough
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace only)
(to 23.37)