This is the time of year when female bluebottles invade our homes to lay their eggs. In today's programme Gerd Sommerhoff shows something of the remarkable life story of these familiar insects.
for Schools
Repeated on June 16 at 11.35 a.m.
(to 10.25)
For the Very Young
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
BBC film
(to 10.45)
The story of a great achievement in the African wilderness.
Introduced by David Howarth.
Additional film sequences by courtesy of the Central African Film Unit and Shell Film Unit
for Schools
Repeated on Friday at 2.5 p.m.
(to 11.25)
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.
(to 14.25)
A programme of song and dance telling the story of the sea-shanty.
Introduced by Peter Heaton.
from the Midlands
(to 15.30)
for younger viewers
Introduced by Christopher Trace.
Including Dogs' Day, a film story of a children's dog show and Dreamy Daniel in a cartoon film Jungle Capers.
A series of sea adventures starring Forrest Tucker as Captain 'Crunch' Adams owner of the charter-boat Poseidon of Caribee Quay.
Crunch and his mate 'Desperate' Smith are at sea in a rubber-dinghy testing life-saving equipment. It is put to the test in real earnest when they are struck by a sudden storm.
A competition to make pictures either by photography or by mosaic.
Neville Maude helps you with your photography and Bill Hooper with your pictures.
Programme introduced by John Anthony.
Send your entries to: [address removed]
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from the South
(Rowridge)
A programme about amateur films and film-makers.
Introduced by Antony Bilbow.
Including extracts from: Flight of the Bumble Bee, Out of Harmony, Refuge England
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Macdonald Hastings and The Harvesters.
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The exciting adventures of the famous Western Stagecoach Service.
Starring Dale Robertson
Jim Hardie assumes that a gang of outlaws who are planning the perfect robbery do not know that one of their members is a Wells Fargo agent: but is his identity unknown?
The Window on the World reviews The Summit and After.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby with reports from Panorama's regular team of commentators Robin Day, Robert Kee, Ludovic Kennedy, John Morgan, James Mossman.
by Doris Lessing.
Starring John Welsh, Mary Hinton, Fabia Drake and Ann Firbank
Because of a proposed television programme the privacy of a famous man is invaded for the whole of one summer night by people he had not chosen to see for many years.
From the West.
Frank Hyde has built and operated his own radio telescope at Clacton in Essex. Patrick Moore discusses with him the contributions an amateur can make in this latest field of astronomy.
BBC recording
