Steam power has revolutionised our way of life. Gerd Sommerhoff explains the changes which take place when water is boiled and shows how they are turned to advantage.
for Schools
(to 10.25)
What was once a waste of windblown reed has been made, by engineers and farmers, into one of the richest farming lands in the world.
Introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith, M.P.
BBC film for Schools
(to 11.25)
by Professor G. P. Wells, F.R.S.
Life on our planet began in the sea and we still carry around, in the plasma of our blood, a salt solution which is a modified form of seawater -the ancestral home of living cells.
for Schools
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
Cylchgrawn i'r Henoed
Cyfle i gwrdd A chymeriadau
A chlywed rhai o'r hen goniadau' Y cyflwyno gan Emrys Cleaver Y cynhyrchu gan Ifor Rees
A magazine for the older folk.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.20)
Introduced by Peter West.
A visit to a building site to see bricklayers and carpenters at work.
BBC film for Schools
BBC film
A light-hearted diversion.
Introduced by McDonald Hobley.
The Guests, The Gaunt Brothers, Craig Douglas, The Donald Purchese Quintet
Quizzicalities
A quiz to test local knowledge.
from the Midlands
(to 15.30)
A magazine programme for younger viewers.
Introduced by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams.
including
Coins in Your Pocket: 2: Small change
R. J. Martin talking about Coins in Your Pocket.
and
The Story of the Fire Engine: Part 2
Seven orchids, half a 500-dollar note, and a piece of broken glass. These are sent to Chuck Martin in a carefully packed parcel-the only clues which lead to the capture of some dangerous criminals.
Previously shown in December 1959
looks at what goes on in the world around us.
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from the South
(Rowridge)
Another chance to see this journey by David Attenborough to the islands and atolls of the South Seas.
'David Attenborough is achieving great effect in his South Seas series by mixing spectacle with the seemingly inexplicable'. (The Star)
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott.
says Eamonn Andrews to ?
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon.
Dramatised by Giles Cooper from the novel 'The Crime of Inspector Maigret'.
Starring Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret
with Ewen Solon as Lucas
Guest star, Alan Tilvern
Produced in association with Winwell Productions Limited
A man acting suspiciously in a cafe arouses Maigret's curiosity and leads him to investigate the lives of three apparently respectable citizens.
A film study of Bernard Leach.
'I came to believe that we can re-learn from the East much that we lost in the Industrial Revolution, for the machine leaves out the heart of labour -feeling, imagination, and directness of control'.
'I found that the craftsman is almost the only kind of worker left employing heart, hand, and head in balance'.
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(Fourteenth Year)
Featuring Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra from the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale.
Demonstrations by Eric Donaldson and Edna Barnett, Tony Clarke and Gladys Mortimer, The Billy Martin Latin-American Formation Team From Liverpool and presenting the 7th Heat of the 1960/61 Competition for the Television Dancing Club Trophies.
Victor Silvester's Dancing Lesson assisted by Christine Norton
Hostess, Rosalie Ashley
followed by Weather and Close Down
