Energy which originally came from the sun is used by living things for growth and movement. With help from a microscope and special cameras, Gerd Sommerhoff shows that the mechanisms involved in growth and movement are common to all kinds of life.
BBC recording for Schools
Repeated on Friday at 11.35 a.m.
(to 10.25)
A programme about land clearance for rubber cultivation in the dense primary forests of this tropical country.
Introduced by Derek Cooper.
BBC recording for Schools
Repeated on Friday at 2.5 p.m.
(to 11.25)
Four programmes presented in French.
The attempts made by French film directors - from Jean Cocteau to Alain Resnais - to make 'films of ideas'.
Introduced by Jacques Brunius.
BBC recording for Schools
(Repeated on Wednesday at 10.5 a.m.)
(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
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)
A group of young people discuss with Anne Allen the problems raised by last week's programme.
Repeated on Tuesday at 11.5 a.m.
BBC film
who include Alistair McHarg, Sheila Bromberg, Denise Shaune and Raymond Dalziel with The Rhythm Quartet.
BBC recording
From the Grand Hall, Kilmarnock
from the Midlands
See chart on page 25
(to 15.30)
For younger viewers
Introduced by Leila Williams.
Dressing Up: The Nurse
The Journey Over the White Beach
A story by Helen Milefantl (aged 12).
Told by David Enders.
First Steps with a Tennis Racquet
Shown by David Potter.
A film series telling the story of people whose work involves physical danger.
David Brown, a young English marine vet in California, plunges into a tank to hand-Teed an injured killer shark. His other patients include a giant porpoise, poison rays, a sixteen-foot octopus, and other monsters of the deep.
looks at what goes on in the world around us.
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from the South
(Rowridge)
A serial in ten parts telling the story of the Acts of Christ's Apostles.
A continuation of this series, first shown last autumn, and repeated from Monday to Friday inclusive in the two weeks leading up to Whitsun
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Macdonald Hastings and Max Bygraves.
See page 20
Starring Dale Robertson
Jim Hardie finds it hard to believe his friend's story of buried treasure, but when he learns that the amount of money involved is exactly the same as the sum which has been stolen from Wells Fargo he takes the matter seriously.
See page 20
The Window on the World
Panorama cameras focus on People - Places - Problems including tonight:
South Africa on the eve of Republic Day
The first of two special reports by James Mossman.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby.
With reports from Panorama's regular team of commentators Robin Day, Robert Kee, Ludovic Kennedy, John Morgan.
by Jean Anouilh
Translated by Patricia Moyes
Starring Edith Evans as the Duchess of Pont-au-Bronc
with Max Adrian, Barry Jones, James Maxwell, Jack MacGowran
BBC recording
(Max Adrian appears by permission of the Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company)
See page 21
As the Russian space probe approaches Venus, Patrick Moore discusses the little we know about this planet and what sort of world further exploration might reveal it to be.
The last of three programmes featuring Jan Bussell and Ann Hogarth.
In this programme they present a flower ballet, some entertaining gargoyles, and a political play written by Jan Bussell.
BBC recording
