In a wet summer we often hear the question 'Where does all the rain come from?'. Gerd Sommerhoff describes the circulation of water in nature and shows that, where rain is concerned, what comes down must first have gone up.
for Schools
(to 10.25)
A programme which examines some traditional industries and some established since the war.
Introduced by Geoffrey Johnson Smith, M.P.
BBC film for Schools
(to 11.25)
by Sir Harrie Massey, F.R.S.
The story of how the scientific instruments in early American and Russian artificial satellites revealed the existence of two great belts of radiation which encircle the earth.
for Schools
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
Cylchgrawn i'r Henoed
'Cyfie i gwrdd a chymeriadau A chlywed rhai o'r hen ganiadau'
Y cyflwyno gan Emrys Cleaver Y cynhyrchu gon ALED VAUGHAN
A magazine for the older folk.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.20)
Introduced by Peter West.
See a boy and a girl doing very different jobs-one working in a tar distillery, the other in a university laboratory.
BBC programme for Schools
BBC film
A light-hearted diversion introduced by McDonald Hobley.
The Guests, Ravic and Babs, The Peter Crawford Trio, June 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: 5: Strange Money
A talk by R. J. Martin.
Packi's Balloon Adventures: 4: The South Pole
Written and drawn by Tony Hart.
A film series telling the story of people whose work involves physical danger.
Major 'Robby' Robinson of the U.S.A.F. leads a team of supersonic acrobats known as the 'Thunderbirds'. With wing-tips almost touching, four F-100 Super Sabre jets perform precision manoeuvres at speeds up to 750 m.p.h.
with Tom Margerison.
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from the South
(Rowridge)
Introduced by Peter Scott.
Charles Darwin based much of his theory of evolution on his researches in the Galapagos Islands, where the animals are isolated from the mainland and have evolved in a particularly interesting manner.
Last shown in October 1959
Look around with Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott.
says Eamonn Andrews to ?
The Window on the World
Every Monday Panorama cameras focus on People - Places - Problems that make news.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby with the Panorama team of commentators.
by Jacques Gillies.
Starring Charles Gray, Derek Francis, Marian Spencer, Thomas Heathcote and Dilys Laye
When four unusual characters choose to stay at a small guest house on Dartmoor, its proximity to the prison is likely to be more than a coincidence.
BBC recording
See page 23
(Fourteenth Year)
Featuring Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra from the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale.
Demonstrations by Harry Smith-Hampshire and Doreen Casey, Stan Dudley and Christine Norton, The Constance Millington Formation Team from Liverpool and presenting the second Semi-Final of the 1960-61 Competition for the Television Dancing Club Trophies.
Victor Silvester's Dancing Lesson assisted by Doreen Freeman
Hostess, Rosalie Ashley
One hundred years ago this month Abraham Lincoln became President of the United States.
Through still pictures in motion this programme tells the story of the four years of savage civil war that followed, of Lincoln's triumph, and of his murder.
An NBC Projects 20 telefilm
(Last shown in February 1959)
followed by Weather and Close Down
