(BBC film)
(to 10.25)
Nearly 200 years ago men flew for the first time, using paper balloons inflated with hot air. Today Gerd Sommerhoff demonstrates that the flight of a hot-air balloon and the vast movements of the air in the atmosphere depend on the same simple principles.
(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 nghwmni T Glynne Davies
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.20)
Introduced by Richard Evans with Richard Adeney (flute), Michael Boyle (bassoon), Peter Graeme (oboe), Gabor Reeves (clarinet) and Patrick Harvey (accompanist).
For the Very Young
(BBC film)
at Kempton Park
Three of this afternoon's races on the first day of the Ascot Heath October Meeting.
3.0 The Brecas Stakes (Handicap) over one and a half miles
3.30 The Duke of Edinburgh Stakes over six -furlongs
4.0 The Sandwich Stakes over six furlongs
Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the Parade Ring before each race.
(to 16.10)
A Czechoslovak cartoon film.
introduced by Billy Wright.
Spotlighting
The Eagle Trophy from the Horse of the Year Show at Wembley
Dorian Williams looks at technique in the final stages of yesterday's Inter-County Junior Jumping Championships.
A news magazine for South-East England.
Work waiting to be done on Lawns with Percy Thrower.
New lawn tools on the market; Pricking-Top Dressing; Use of Fertilisers; Treating Dead Patches and Stoking Fruit and Vegetables for the Winter
From the BBC's Midland television studio
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Trevor Philpott, Polly Elwes and Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.
Stories of the 'Mounties'
A film series starring Gilles Pelletier as Corporal Jacques Gagnier.
All that is stolen is a few dollars from a Piggy Bank. But Constable Scott soon finds that the case is dynamite, in more ways than one.
Robert Harbin invites you to join him in a demonstration of Mystery and Magic.
At the organ, Charles Smart
In this last 'report' on his expedition to the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the China Sea, Hans Hass describes his most daring exploit and shows how he and Eibl, by offering themselves as guinea-pigs to the inhabitants of the 'shark wreck', found out something of great use to shipwrecked sailors.
Directed and produced by Hans Hass in association with the BBC Natural History Unit
(A film series)
by Charles Dickens.
Dramatised for television in thirteen episodes by Michael Voysey.
In which Gabriel Varden learns more of the Stranger, and Simon Tappertit goes out on a midnight errand.
A National Jumping Competition
This is a new competition open to the twelve horses which have gained the greatest number of points in ten major National Championships this year, and horses which have been placed first, or equal first, in any International Jumping Competition at an official International Horse Show.
Direct from the Empire Pool and Sports Arena, Wembley.
A magazine of news and pictures from cameramen all over the world.
Introduced by Kenneth Kendall.
