A visit to Grimes Graves where Stone Age miners excavated flints for tools and weapons.
Introduced by Eric Simms.
BBC film for Schools
(to 10.25)
for Schools
First shown on Monday
(to 11.25)
When you help to lay the table do you ever think how the everyday things you put on it are made?
Introduced by Judith Chalmers.
for Schools
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
Edrych ar y byd a'i bethau Cwrdd a phobl
Ymweld a Heoedd Ymdrin a phynciau yng nghwmni
Aled Rhys Wiliam
Rhaglen ddyddiol dan ofal Nan Davies, Ifor Rees, Jack Wiliams
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)
Bryan Forbes describes how he approaches his work and the special problems he has to cope with when writing for the cinema.
Introduced by Stanley Reed, Secretary of the British Film Institute.
BBC programme for Schools
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
BBC film
Robert Gladwell introduces Marty Batten, Beryl Gray, Jill Leslie, Margaret Lorraine, Barbara Miura and Jose Waring showing summer clothes for formal occasions, including a selection of couture dresses from the London Collections.
Introduced by Robin Scott.
From the studios of Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise
(to 15.30)
A cartoon film from Hungary.
A greedy King tries to steal a diamond which has been discovered in a farmyard. He doesn't realise at first that he has to deal with a cockerel gifted with magic powers.
Commentary by Vera McKechnie.
The lives of the fallow deer, foxes, badgers, and other animals who live in the New Forest are seen through the eyes of the wise old owl.
Music composed by Sidney Sager and played by the Melos Ensemble
A Natural History Unit film
Last shown in January
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from the South
(Rowridge)
Barry Bucknell's Television Guide
A programme for practical people.
This week: Outside work
Paths, paving, and ornamental walls
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson,
Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings and Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.
A film drama starring Teresa Wright, Robert Preston, Everett Sloane.
A little Japanese girl becomes the bewildered victim of intolerance and prejudice which threatens not only her own happiness but the security of those who offer her love and protection.
A general knowledge contest between
Edward Moult, Sheila Young, A. J. Campbell
and
Olive Stephens, Patrick Bowles, Roger Herbert-Smith
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
Robin Richmond at the organ
Viewer Quiz 'Who? What? Where?' photographs from Radio Times Hulton Picture Library
A film from the Western Highlands by Ronald Kelly.
Between October and March the tiny highland village of Camuslaunie is hidden from sunshine. It is here that Duncan and Mary Matheson live on the family croft, and it was from here, one day in winter, that Mary went to Inverness for the birth of her first child. This film is about the small world of the hills and glens, 'back of the sun', that their child will inherit.
by Leo Lehman.
Marrying Mitzi seemed a good idea to Georgie when he was a National Serviceman on leave in Austria. At home in London, with an outraged mother to face, it seems less good. But plans for the wedding have been made and Georgie can see no way out of it.
Hephzibah Menuhin plays Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat (K.595) with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Leader, Raymond Cohen
Conducted by Rudolf Kempe
The programme also includes movements from Strauss's Suite 'Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'.
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In the next and last programme in this series on May 9, Yehudi Menuhin plays Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ferenc Fricsay.
followed by Weather and Close Down
A play in Welsh, by John Griffiths.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
(to 23.34)
