In today's programme Gerd Sommerhoff investigates what happens to a fuel when it burns and shows how a knowledge of burning enables us to control fire.
(to 10.25)
How high is the tree? How wide is the river? A programme about mathematics in action.
Introduced by Brian Dent.
for Schools
(to 11.25)
During the last seven hundred years most of the people of Europe have left the country to live in towns. Starting in medieval York, Edinburgh, and Bruges, Michael Calthrop traces the effect the move has had on the shape, size, and efficiency of the town as 'a machine for living in'.
for Schools
Repeated on Tuesday at 10.5 a.m.
(to 11.55)
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 Owen Edwards
Rhaglen ddyddiol dan ofal Nan Davies, Ifor Rees, Jack Williams
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
A Monday meeting for people with opinions including Russell Braddon, Erskine Childers, Andrew Gardner, Jacqueline Wheldon.
Introduced by Peter West.
The Schools Film Unit goes to Wales to find out what the training is like at a school for student chefs. Next you can watch catering staff in action both at a luxury hotel and on board ship.
BBC programme for Schools
For the very young
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
BBC film
(to 14.45)
for younger viewers
Introduced by Christopher Trace.
including
Blue Peter Alphabet: F for Fireworks
Packi's Adventures
Written and drawn by Tony Hart
How to Build Your Own Model Theatre
A new series of adventure films about a helicopter.
A confidence trickster of great charm manages to elude the combined attempts of the police and Chuck and P.T. to bring him to justice, until he meets a situation with which even he is unable to deal.
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.
(First shown in July)
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 Hugh Lloyd, Jeremy Lloyd, Ronnie Brody, Ken Roberts, Peter Glaze, Penny Morrell, Roger Avon, Michael Stainton, Louis Mansi.
says Eamonn Andrews to ?
Written by Peter Moore.
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon.
Dramatised by Roger East from the novel 'Maigret et le corps sans tete'.
Starring Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret
with Ewen Solon as Lucas
Guest stars, Faith Brook, George Baker
A BBC recording produced in association with Winwell Productions Ltd.
(George Baker appears by arrangement with Associated British Elstree Studios Ltd.)
Omer Calas had gone to the country to buy wine. He was still away when, in the river a few yards from his bistro, a dismembered corpse was discovered. Would Maigret be able to find Calas? Or had he already done so?
A ballet by Gavin Gordon after William Hogarth.
With Donald Britton, Elizabeth Anderton, Brian Shaw, Gerd Larsen and full company
Music, Gavin Gordon
recorded by Covent Garden Orchestra
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by John Lanchbery
Costumes and scenery, Rex Whistler after William Hogarth
Scene 1: The Rake's Levée
Scene 2: A Tavern
Scene 3: The Rake in Debt
Scene 4: A Gambling House
Scene 5: The Madhouse
From time to time it has been suggested that the Earth may have more than one natural moon. Any such satellite would be very small and faint; but searches for them have been carried out, and recently a Polish astronomer claimed to have photographed two of them.
Patrick Moore discusses the theory with Colin Ronan.
followed by The Weather Man and Close Down
