BBC film for Schools
First shown on Tuesday
(to 10.25)
Bernard Williams introduces next week's production of Philoctetes by Sophocles.
for Schools
First shown on Tuesday
(to 11.35)
Written by Norman Longmate.
A picture of life in mid-Victorian England.
Introduced by Windsor Davies.
(to 12.00)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
Edirych ar y by<l a'i bethau
Cwrdd a phobl
Ymweld â lleoedd Ymdrin a phynciau yng nghwmni OWEN EDWARDS Rhaglen ddyddiiol dan ofal NAN DAVIES, IFOR REES, JACK WILLIAMS
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
(to 13.25)
Professor W.S. Bullough illustrates the diversity of living things today, and introduces the idea of life in the past.
For Schools
(First shown in January 1960)
For the very young
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Peter Hawkins speaks the voices
Maria Bird writes the songs and music
BBC film
(to 14.45)
The first of this series of films introduces the Hamster, who is a newcomer to the miniature world of the Riverbank. He meets the Wise Old Frog and makes friends with Roderick the Rat, who takes him on a very exciting fishing trip.
Commentary spoken by Johnny Morris.
Last shown in July 1960
A series of film stories about imaginary space adventures.
A precious crystal is smuggled to Earth after a geological expedition to the Moon. Suspicion rests on Col. McCauley's assistant and the four geologists who take part in the expedition.
Two boys living on the Canadian prairies become involved in a critical situation with a mill-wheel.
A National Film Board of Canada film
A news magazine for South-East England.
News from the South
(Rowridge)
Introduced by Peter West from Birmingham.
In this edition:
The Dogs' Home, Battersea
Disney's Dogs
Dalmatians and Skye Terriers with excerpts from The Walt Disney Productions '101 Dalmatians' and 'Greyfriars Bobby'.
Min, Pins and Monkeys
and
Popularity Poll
with three more of the breeds you have chosen.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Cy Grant.
A film series based on Sir Winston Churchill's Memoirs of World War II.
War in the Far East. With the Japanese advancing through Burma to strike at India, the Allies are forced to retreat, with the disastrous loss of weapons and equipment. Despite India's passive attitude, more than two and a half million Indians join the Allied forces. Orde Wingate and his Chindits, with their guerilla tactics, destroy the myth of Japanese invincibility; and under Lord Louis Mountbatten's command, the tide begins to turn. The Japanese invasion collapses, and Japan's bid for India is virtually over.
(Previously shown on May 20)
See panel below
A Western film series.
Starring John Smith and Robert Fuller
with Guest star Donald Woods
Slim agrees to guide a mild-looking professor through wild territory to a lost gold mine. Then, too late, his travelling companion is revealed as a dangerous outlaw.
A Ministerial Broadcast by The Rt. Hon. R. A. Butler C.H., M.P., Home Secretary.
Kenneth Wolstenholme reports from White Hart Lane.
These two teams met a week ago in Poland, so this evening's match, the second leg, should decide who goes through to the next round.
After cruising 1,200 miles down the American Intracoastal Waterway, the motor cruiser Dubhe is lying in Miami for overhaul, and Tony Soper takes the chance of exploring the swamp jungle of the famous Everglades.
Previously shown in February
Rowridge:
Evening Prayers, conducted by the Rev. A. C. Bridge.
