News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
Edrych ar y byd a'i bethau Cwrdd A phobl
Ymweld a lleoedd
Ymdrin a phynciau yng nghwmnl
Aled Rhys Wiliam
Rhaglen ddyddiol dan ofal Nan Davies Ifor Rees Jack Williams
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)
For the Very Young
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Peter Hawkins speaks the voices
Maria Bird writes the songs and music
BBC film
Topics to talk about, New things to see, People worth meeting.
Introduced by David Jacobs.
(to 15.30)
A silhouette film made by Lotte Reiniger.
The story of two children lost in a wood who take shelter in a witch's cottage, and how they escape from her.
Last shown in February 1960
The Escape the Germans Allowed.
Written and produced by Shaun Sutton.
Last shown in May 1960
Peter Jewell explains how children, students, and archaeologists built their own bronze age burial mound on the Marlborough Downs last summer.
A news magazine for South-East England.
A series of films about Sea Warfare 1939-45.
Anti-submarine warfare in the Atlantic, 1943-1945. The final destruction of the U-boat fleet.
Introduced by Ludovic Kennedy.
This NBC film series was produced in co-operation with the U.S. Navy and the Admiralty, and was last shown on BBC Television in 1953
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings with Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.
A film series.
Adventure in Yukon Territory during the days of the famous Gold Rush starring
Ralph Taeger as Mike Halliday.
Mike Halliday came off worst in his first encounter with California's heavyweight boxing champion. So when Kathy O'Hara's Uncle Jonah arranges a contest with Mike as challenger-he is none too happy, especially as Kathy's hotel is wagered on the outcome of the fight.
Introduced by Peter Dimmock.
presents
The Lightweight Championship of the World: Joe Brown (U.S.A.) Champion v. Dave Charnley (Great Britain) Challenger
An exclusive film of last night's world title fight at Earls Court.
The Greyhound Television Trophy
Heat 2 of the £3,000 Greyhound Television Trophy of 1961, televised direct from Hall Green Stadium, Birmingham.
Meet the Tourists
Brian Johnston and Sportsview film cameras on board T.S.S. Himalaya invite you to meet Richie Benaud and the Australian cricketers as they near the end of their voyage to England and the Test series of 1961.
Raymond Baxter reports from a laboratory of a pharmaceutical company in Basle, Switzerland.
For centuries the Indians of southern Mexico have been eating a species of mushroom they call 'God's flesh', and after eating it see visions and prophesy. Recently a Swiss chemist has extracted the active principle of the mushroom which is now used for the treatment of certain cases of neurosis.
Tonight's programme tells how this extraordinary substance was isolated and the power it has of causing hallucinations in almost anyone who takes it.
by Godfrey Harrison.
A programme about two of Britain's great bridge-building projects, The Clifton Suspension Bridge and The Tamar Suspension Bridge.
Introduced by Tom Salmon who looks back one hundred years to the construction of Brunel's famous bridge over the River Avon at Bristol, and with outside broadcast cameras, visits the building site of the vast new Tamar Bridge at Plymouth in Devon.
From the West
Last shown in February
A series of filmed reports on aspects of church and community life in Britain.
A report on Preston, Lancashire, an area with a high proportion of Roman Catholics.
Introduced by Stuart Maclure.
Film cameraman, Gerry Pullen Recordist, Graham Turner (North of England Film Unit)
followed by Weather and Close Down
