Today Gerd Sommerhoff goes up the BBC Television Mast at Crystal Palace to discover how air pressure changes with height and, helped by the Weather Man, he shows how the weather is influenced by differences in air pressure.
for Schools
(to 10.25)
What are our chances of living to a ripe old age, of having twins, or of having rain today? Statistics can sometimes give us the answers to these problems.
Written and introduced by Hugh David.
for Schools
(to 11.25)
Some species of insects have been able to survive by inheriting highly complex, but relatively unchanging, behaviour patterns. Other animals, and especially man, have evolved to a much greater extent the capacity to modify behaviour through experience.
Introduced by Dr. Robert Audley.
for Schools
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
Edrych ar y byd a'i bethau
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
A Monday meeting for people with opinions.
Including Erskine Childers, Andrew Gardner, Sam Pollock, Barbara Anne Taylor, Jacqueline Wheldon.
Introduced by Peter West.
Percy is a long-distance driver. His trip takes him to a cement works in Kent where he takes on a load destined for a steel mill being built in Wales.
BBC film for Schools
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
BBC film
(to 14.45)
for younger viewers
Introduced by Christopher Trace and Leila Williams.
including:
Blue Peter Alphabet: A for Aircraft
Packi's Adventures
Written and drawn by Tony Hart.
The Story of the Bicycle: 4
told by Reginald Shaw
A film series telling the story of people whose work involves physical danger.
Major 'Robby' Robinson of the U.S.A.F. leads a team of supersonic acrobats known as the 'Thunderbirds'. With wing-tips almost touching, four F-100 Super Sabre jets perform precision manoeuvres at speeds up to 750 m.p.h.
Last shown in March
looks at what goes on in the world around us.
A news magazine for South-East England followed by The Weather.
News from the South, and Weather
(Rowridge)
with Robert Robinson
A quick look at points from the week's post.
A film series based on Sir Winston Churchill's Memoirs of World War II.
'Operation Overlord': the invasion of Europe is planned, and from the arrival of the first G.I.s in Great Britain, we see the gradual build-up of forces and their training in invasion tactics, the making and testing of landing craft, and the construction of the 'Mulberry' floating harbour. At the last moment-D-Day minus one-the weather worsens, and the success of the operation is in jeopardy; but Eisenhower decides against postponement and D-Day-June 6-is set.
(Last shown in June)
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Macdonald Hastings and Cy Grant.
Written by Sid Green and Dick Hills.
Starring Sidney James
with Sydney Tafler
and featuring Arthur Brough, Patricia Hayes, Cameron Hall, Bob Todd, Sidney Vivian, Charles Lloyd Pack, Bernard Hunter, Roger Avon, Penny Morell, Michael Peake, Alec Bregonzi, Loelia Kidd, Herbert Nelson, Stan Simmons, Totti Truman Taylor.
says Eamonn Andrews to ?
The Window on the World
Panorama cameras focus on People - Places - Problems that make news.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby.
Including tonight: The Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell C.B.E., M.P. talking to Robin Day direct from the Labour Party Conference at Blackpool with reports from Panorama's regular team of commentators: Robert Kee, Ludovic Kennedy, John Morgan, James Mossman.
A comedy by Alan Plater.
Starring Donald Churchill
BBC Recording
From the North
Demonstrations by Eric Lashbrooke and Norma Graves, Michael Houseman and Valerie Waite, Jimmy Hulbert and Carol Dourof, The Constance Grant Latin-American Formation Team from Sheffield and presenting the first heat of the 1961-62 Competition for the Television Dancing Club Trophies.
Hostess, Rosalie Ashley
Kenneth Harris and Robert Kee report on the first day.
From the special BBC television studio in the Headquarters Hotel of the Conference in Blackpool with recordings made during the day.
followed by The Weather Man and Close Down
