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(Sound only)
(to 10.15)
Ten programmes showing how the atoms and molecules of the physicist make up our everyday world.
In the sixth of his lectures on The Nature of Things given at the Royal Institution Sir Lawrence Bragg, F.R.S., demonstrates how in gem stones the atoms composing the crystal are not only arranged in an orderly manner but are very firmly bonded.
First shown on December 17, 1959
A second viewing of a film series in which a variety of contemporary artists define the intentions of their work.
Having mastered the techniques of traditional ways of painting, the artist rejects these in favour of total abstraction.
(to 11.00)
Rhaglen wythnosol y plant yn cyflwyno
Gweld a Gwneud
Cyfres o raglenni yn ymwneud A gwahanol agweddau ar gelf a chrefrt Cyfnrwyddyd
Bywyd Llonydd
Trafod:
Arlunwvr Mawr
3: Vincent Van Gogh
Put o Smaldod:
Cystadleuaeth ysgafn
Y cyfarwyddo gan EVELYN Williams
Children's Television
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.00)
(See panel on facing page and page 4)
(Details of next week's 'Grandstand' are shown on page 63)
Introduced by Alan Weeks
featuring The All England Lawn Tennis Championships
Today's Timetable
Lawn Tennis
direct from Wimbledon from 2.0: The All England Lawn Tennis Championships
Commentators: Dan Maskell, Peter West, David Coleman and Jack Kramer
Television Presentation JOHN VERNON and INNES LLOYD
Executive Producer BRYAN COWGILL
Motor Sport
direct from Scotland from 2.30
Rest and Be Thankful National Open Hill Climb for Racing and Sports cars Commentator: Murray Walker
Television Presentation BILL STEVENSON
Racing
direct from Bath
3.0 Tysee Stakes (over 6 furlongs)
3.30 Kenneth Robertson Handicap (over 1 mile)
4.30 Tetbury Handicap (over 1 mile 5 furlongs)
Commentators: Peter O'Sullevan and Clive Graham
Television Presentation PETER BALI
Sports Results and News Service: 1.59 Cricket Scoreboard 4.45 Cricket and Racing Summaries
(While it is hoped to keep to the above timings, they may be changed by events)
People are not what they seem in Border City, especially the Sheriff, and even the Range Rider and Dick have to prove they are not bandits.
by Frank Richards.
With Gerald Campion as Billy Bunter and Jack Melford as Mr. Quelch.
BBC outside broadcast units bring you the final transmission of the day direct from Wimbledon and a review of the first week of the Championships by Dan Maskell and Jack Kramer.
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Presenting the latest in popular records.
This week's panel includes: Stubby Kaye, Brian Matthew and Sally Smith.
In the chair, David Jacobs
A series of crime stories by Michael Gilbert.
[Starring] Brian Wilde
Starring Marian Spencer, Henry Oscar with Jennifer Wright, Terry Scully
Mrs. Roseberry, a widow with private means, has fallen into the clutches of a confidence trickster who calls himself 'Major Repton'. Her companion, Celia Brace, tries to persuade her not to invest a large sum of money in one of Repton's financial enterprises, but Mrs. Roseberry will hear nothing against the charming and helpful Major. Meantime, Supt. Halcro waits for Repton to make a false step.
from The Royal Air Force, Bridgnorth.
With Rosemary Squires, Eddie Calvert, Joe Church, Albert and Les Ward, The Duo Russmar, The Skating Meteors, Jack Beckitt, Eric 'Jeeves' Grier, Helen Cotterill, The Charlie Chester Dancers, The George Mitchell Singers.
BBC Northern Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Tommy Watt
A film series based on Sir Winston Churchill's Memoirs of World War II.
Late Summer, 1944. After seven weeks of unbroken military success hopes run high that the Nazi world will collapse. But Eisenhower's thrusts towards Antwerp and Verdun meet with increasing German resistance; and, of 10,000 paratroops dropped at Arnhem to seize and consolidate a bridgehead over the Rhine, only 2,400 survive after holding out for eight days against fierce German attacks, while a desperate and unsuccessful attempt is made to relieve them.
At the Dumbarton Oaks conference a new world organisation is born 'The United Nations'; and after travelling to Moscow to see Stalin, Churchill visits France where he joins the Americans in celebrating Thanks-giving Day.
A film series, starring Raymond Burr as the famous lawyer investigator created by Erle Stanley Gardner.
with Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Ray Collins
Perry Mason volunteers to defend an old tramp who has been arrested for robbery: but he finds that the charge is murder.
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon.
Dramatised by Margot Bennett from the novel "My Friend Maigret."
Starring Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret with Ewen Solon as Lucas
Guest star: Marian Spencer
A BBC recording produced in association with Winwell Productions Ltd.
(First shown on December 19, 1960)
The savage murder of one of the 'characters' living on the sun-drenched Mediterranean island of Porquerolles provides a change of scene for Inspector Maigret's investigations amongst a strange assortment of local inhabitants.
and All That Jazz....
Spotlighting music in the specialist manner.
Starring this week, Chris Barber's Jazz Band with Ottilie Patterson and Bob Wallis's Storyville Jazzmen.
Introductions by Brian Matthew.
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followed by Weather and Close Down
