What is streamlining? How does a parachute work? In the first programme of this new science series Gerd Sommerhoff answers these and other questions about the properties of the air around us.
(to 10.25)
How many people are there in Britain? Who wants to know? This is the story of the National Census-one of the biggest mathematical sums it is possible to imagine.
Introduced by Hugh David.
(to 11.25)
Dr. Robert Audley introduces the first of a new series on the problems and methods of experimental psychology.
The viewer should, if possible, have by him a piece of tinted transparent plastic or the lens from a pair of sun-glasses, in order to take part in a demonstration to be carried out during the programme.
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
Edrych ar y byd a'i bethau
Cwrdd â phobl
Ymweld ft lleoedd
Ymdrin â phynciau yng nghwmni OWEN EDWARDS Rhaglen ddyddiol dan ofal NAN DAVIES, IFOR REES
JACK WILLIAMS
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)
Introduced by Peter West.
Sandra and Roy have just left school. What are the factors that influence them when they are 'thinking about jobs'?
for Schools
First shown in September 1960
For the very young
(to 14.45)
for younger viewers
Introduced by Leila Williams and Christopher Trace.
How to Build Your Own Model Theatre
How the Rabbits Got Their Short Tails
Hugh Tracey tells a story.
The Story of the Bicycle: 2
Told by Reginald Shaw.
A film series telling the story of people whose work involves physical danger.
Ferdinand Bickel is an expert on explosives. He has to plan his blasts to minimise the danger to human life. This exciting film shows a detonation project from the painstaking preparation to the actual explosion.
Last shown in February
Sir Stephen King-Hall looks at what goes on in the world around us.
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from the South
(Rowridge)
Introduced by Peter Scott with Fred Lexster.
For about 700 years the mute swan has been a royal and protected bird. But are there now too many of them? With the Keeper of the Abbotsbury Swannery, Peter Scott discusses swans and shows films of their life.
From the West
Last shown in July
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Macdonald Hastings and Cy Grant.
2,000 miles of adventure with the pioneers as the stage coach route moves Westward.
A film series starring William Bendix and Doug McClure.
Flip is delighted to learn that he and Helen, a pretty young lawyer, have inherited a gold mine. But he soon finds his troubles are only just beginning.
First-hand reports from a changing continent.
Introduced by Christopher Chataway, M.P.
by Charles Wood.
"A game of soldiers in the rain. Dead cushy. It is the excitement that sends you to sleep. Plod on yards that seem like miles following fifty tons of grumble and stink over the Welsh countryside. And the rain pelts down and the night gets blacker, and you thank your lucky stars you're riding, not walking. A Centurion tank is no respecter of living gristle. When a crash comes, you don't have time to scream out your name and number before it wraps you around the sprocket."
featuring Dennis Lotis with Julia Shelley, Dorita y Pepe, Susan Denny, Dill Jones.
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Leader, James Hutcheon
Conductor, Jack Coles
From the Midlands
(Pascoli alti)
A documentary film from Italy.
Spoken by John Glen and Virginia Winter.
During the long months of summer in an alpine setting that is of the loveliest in Europe young Italian shepherds find adventure, but also loneliness.
Patrick Moore discusses with Dr. H. E. Butler how artificial satellites outside the earth's atmosphere can help astronomers, and what further discoveries they may lead to.
followed by Weather and Close Down
