Nowadays electricity supplies one of our main sources of heat. Today Gerd Sommerhoff explains the electric current and shows how it may be used to give heat and light.
for Schools
(to 10.25)
A programme about travelling by train, ship, or aircraft, and some of the mathematics involved.
Introduced by Brian Dent.
for Schools
(to 11.25)
The major cities of the world now have close on ten million inhabitants each. What can architects and engineers do to preserve the safety and sanity of people who have to live in these cities?
Michael Calthrop speculates on this with Lewis Mumford and Percy Johnson-Marshall.
for Schools
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)
Edrych ar y byd a'l bethau Cwrdd a phobl
Ymweld a lleoedd Ymdrin a phynciau yng nghwnmi Owen Edwards Rhaglen ddvddiol dan ofal NAN DAVIES. lFOR REES JACK Williams
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, Brian Redhead, Katharine Whitehorn.
Introduced by Peter West.
What does an interviewer look for when a boy or girl applies for a job? This programme shows the kind of question Chris has to be prepared to answer on this important occasion.
Script by Ronald Smurthwaite, Carpers Advisory Officer, The Chartered Insurance Institute
for Schools
First shown in November 1960
For the very young
BBC film
(to 14.45)
A magazine programme for younger viewers.
Introduced by Christopher Trace.
Including:
Micki, Wild Dog of the North
An excerpt from the film.
Shown by courtesy of Walt Disney Productions
Chris and Leila take you on a visit to the British Manufacturers' Toy Fair
Letter 'I' in the Blue Peter Alphabet
A series of adventure films about a helicopter.
A meek little man runs into 'double trouble', and Chuck and P.T get themselves very much involved.
in Washington talks to Ed Murrow, Director of the United States Information Agency.
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.
Letters for inclusion in the programme should be addressed to Points of View, [address removed]
See page 22
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 Frank Williams, Pauline Stroud, Bill Shine, Gordon Phillott, Bob Todd, Meadows White, Roger Avon, Dave Freeman, Ronnie Brody.
says Eamonn Andrews to ?
Written by Peter Moore.
The Window on the World
Panorama cameras focus on People-Places-Problems that make news.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby with reports from Panorama's regular team of commentators Robin Day, Robert Kee, Ludovic Kennedy, John Morgan, James Mossman.
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon.
Dramatised by Margot Bennett from the novel 'Port des Brumes'.
Starring Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret
with Ewen Solon as Lucas
A BBC recording produced in association with Winwell Productions Ltd.
See page 23
Fourteenth Year
Featuring Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra from the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale.
Demonstrations by Leonard Patrick and Doreen Key, Fred and Joyce Boultwood, The Billy Martin Formation Team from Liverpool and presenting the 4th heat of the 1961-62 competition for the Television Dancing Club Trophies.
Victor Silvester's Dancing Lesson assisted by Doreen Freeman
Hostess, Rosalie Ashley
followed by The Weather Man and Close Down
