What is a Food Chain and why is Chlorophyll the most important link in the chain? Today Gerd Sommerhoff examines the essential bond between plants and animals, and explains how life depends on the sun.
for Schools
(to 10.25)
A programme about men, machines, and water bringing life to the remote plains and the hinterland.
Introduced by Trader Faulkner.
Film sequences by courtesy of the West Australian Government
(to 11.25)
Four programmes presented in French.
How French film directors-and in particular Jean Renoir-have interpreted the atmosphere of the French countryside and the character of the French peasant.
Introduced by Jacques Brunius.
(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 lleoedd
Ymdrin a phynciau yng nghwmni
Aled Rhys Wiliam
Rhaglen ddyddiol dan ofal
Nan Davies, Ifor Rees, Jack Williams
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)
by John Wiles.
The third of a series of drama and discussion programmes about the problems of young people.
BBC film
discussed by women from the four corners of the world:
Miss Kamila Tyabji (India), Mrs. Yale Newman (U.S.A.), Mrs. Oni Tuboku-Metzger (Sierra Leone), Mrs. Gutte Gauntlett (Denmark), Miss Irene Lim (Singapore).
In the chair, Polly Elwes
From the Midlands
(to 15.30)
for younger viewers
Introduced by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams.
Young Modellers' League
A new series on trains, aeroplanes, and ships.
Pinocchio
Another chapter from the story by C. Collodi.
Told by Richard Mayes.
Dressing Up: The Nurse: part 2
A film series telling the story of people whose work involves physical danger.
Art McKee and his fellow fortune hunters risk their lives in the depths of the Gulf Stream in their search for gold doubloons and pieces of eight. They see the treasures of the 'San Pedro', a proud galleon of the Spanish Armada; sea monsters, tangled wreckage, and mishaps with their equipment are among the perils they face.
A question game between boys and girls from schools for the deaf In London.
Question-Master, Edwin Denton
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from the South
(Rowridge)
A cycle of ten plays telling the story of the Acts of Christ's Apostles.
Written and produced by Joy Harington.
Choral music sung by a section of The Ambrosian Singers and Highgate School Choir
The story begins in Jerusalem at the time of the Feast of Pentecost, seven weeks after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth.
(This series, which was first shown on Sundays in the autumn of last year, is to be repeated daily, from Monday to Friday inclusive at 6.20 p.m. during the next two weeks, leading up to Whit Sunday)
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Macdonald Hastings and Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.
says Eamonn Andrews to ?
The Window on the World
Panorama cameras focus on People - Places - Problems that make news
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby with reports from
Panorama's regular team of commentators: Robin Day, Robert Kee, Ludovic Kennedy, John Morgan, James Mossman
by John Elliot.
Nothing is more terrible than losing a person one loves. Mrs. Livingstone, her daughter, Celia Jordan, and Harry Jordan, all in their different ways fear such a loss. Celia is in an unenviable position; she has a difficult choice to make.
play their own inimitable game of Basketball against the United States All Stars.
Direct from the Empire Pool, Wembley.
See these wizards of basketball in action, with supporting Variety acts.
A drama in two acts.
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
Assistant conductor and Chorus-Master, Marcus Dods
1865; the village of Montalto, Calabria.
The Prologue: Tonio explains that the subject of the play to be performed later that night is a drama taken from real life.
Act 1: The Arrival of the Troupe
Intermezzo
Act 2: The Play
(Last shown in December 1960)
(Bernard Turgeon, Kevin Miller, and Peter Glossop broadcast by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
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followed by Weather and Close Down