Nearly 200 years ago men flew for the first time using paper balloons inflated with hot air. Gerd Sommerhoff shows how the flight of such a balloon, and the vast movements of the air in the atmosphere, depend on the same simple principles.
for Schools
First shown last Friday
(to 10.25)
Introduced by Richard Evans
with Richard Adeney (flute), Michael Boyle (bassoon), Peter Graeme (oboe), Gabor Reeves (clarinet) and Patrick Harvey (accompanist).
BBC programme for Schools
(First shown last Friday)
Soldier and patron of the arts, Federigo de Montefeltro left a permanent memorial in the vast palace which dominates the little mountain town of Urbino in central Italy.
Introduced by John Broadbent.
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
Cylchgrawn i'r Henoed
Cyfle i gwrdd â chymeriadau
A chlywed rhai o'r hen ganiadau
Y cyflwyno gan Emrys Cleaver Y rhaglen yng ngofal Ifor Rees
A magazine for the older folk.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.20)
Introduced by Peter West.
The care of young children whose mothers have to go out to work or are taken ill is an essential social service. A local authority's day nursery is visited to see nursery nurses in training.
BBC programme for Schools
For the Very Young
BBC film
with McDonald Hobley.
A travelling diversion to various parts of the country.
This week: Eastbourne
The Guests,
Jacqui Chan to sing for you
Al Redding and Aussie making their first television appearance in this country
The Musicians:
Andrew Fenner, Harry Smith, Steve Gauna, Roy Webster
with Quizzicalities
A quiz to test local knowledge.
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: 4
Told and drawn by Tony Hart.
and
Making Your Own Den
shown by Tony Key.
A man who wants a re-trial for his brother barricades himself in a warehouse, and shoots at anyone who tries to get him out. Chuck and P.T. are called in to help the law-and the man.
First shown in January 1959
Sam Williams shows you how to make a kite.
A news magazine for South-East England.
Rumours of diamonds and dinosaurs draw the Oxford and Cambridge men on to scale, with Indian guides, the mysterious mountain of Roraima, in South America.
(First shown last year)
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson and including John Morgan, Trevor Philpott 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
When General Campbell left London for a secret visit to Scotland, he thought he had covered his tracks. But his secretary, Isobel Gilmour, guessed he had gone to see a scientist called Ferguson, in Argyllshire, and followed him. So did Roger Kenyon, a government scientist interested in Campbell's past connection with a rocket fuel project called Operation Jehu; and so did the Rev. Murdo Aitcheson, who persuaded Alison, the General's daughter, to accompany him to a small fishing inn, where Aitcheson had an unexpected encounter with a Mr. Caldwell.
New comedies starring George Burns and Gracie Allen.
The local plumber is thinking of getting married and Grade arms herself with Cupid's bow and fires away... with her usual inaccuracy.
Peter West introduces the first Semi-Final of the BBC Inter-Regional Professional Challenge Cup and the selection of the East Midlands team for the BBC Inter-Regional Amateur Dancing Contest.
To the music of Benny Daniels and his Orchestra
Organised by Mecca Dancing
Produced by Philip Lewis from The Palais, Nottingham
Patrick Moore describes how the modern spectroscope has enabled astronomers to find out what different stars are made of and how bright they actually are.
followed by Weather and Close Down
