Water, in one form or another, plays an important part in this country's weather. In today's programme Gerd Sommerhoff explains that, where water and the weather are concerned, what comes down must first have gone up.
(to 10.25)
Along the route of a motor journey of 1,500 miles from Texas to California you see the wheat and oil, cowboys and Indians, mountains and deserts of this least populated quarter of the United States.
BBC film for Schools
(to 11.25)
'...remember that the universe is bottomless; there is no place where the atom can come to rest'. Lucretius
Introduced by Professor David Ingram.
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Edrych ar y byd a'i bethau Cwrdd a phobl
Ymweld a lleoedd Ymdrin a phynciau yng nghwmni OWEN EDWARDS Gwaith ymchwil, Harri Gwyne Rhaglen ddyddiol dan ofal IFOR REES, JACK WILLIAMS
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
A Monday meeting for people with opinions.
Including Richard Bing, Erskine Childers, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Douglas Robinson
Introduced by Peter West.
More than 87,000 girls go into some kind of clerical or secretarial work every year. A BBC Film Unit goes to Aberdeen to look at the office jobs that some school-leavers find, and what they can aim for when they are older.
BBC film for Schools
BBC film
(to 14.45)
A magazine programme for younger viewers.
Introduced by Christopher Trace.
including
A film called In the Forest
and
Letter T in the Blue Peter Alphabet
A second showing of the serial in eight parts by Frank Richards.
with Gerald Campion as Billy Bunter and Jack Melford as Mr. Quelch
This film from Canada shows how a cowboy train, a wild horse and, by kindness and understanding, teaches it to carry a rider and obey his wishes.
A news magazine for South-East England followed by The Weather.
News from the South and Weather
(Rowridge)
A general knowledge contest between
The Residents: Olive Stephens, Edward Moult, Reginald Webster
and
The Challengers: Mary Mason, Frank Gerson, Michael Seltser
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
From the Midlands
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]
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Macdonald Hastings, Polly Elwes and Cy Grant.
says Eamonn Andrews to ?
A new serial for television by Elaine Morgan.
Starring Tracey Lloyd, Anthony Newlands, John Cairney, John Gill, Neil McCarthy, Jack Rodney
with Edward Evans and Douglas Blackwell
From Wales
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.
by Tony Webster.
[Starring] Alec McCowen
Featuring Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra from the Carlton Rooms, Maida Vale.
Demonstrations by Harry Smith-Hampshire and Doreen Casey, Bob Johnson and Audrey Adams, The Constance Millington Formation Team from Liverpool and presenting The first semi-final of the 1961-62 competition for the Television Dancing Club Trophies.
Victor Silvester's Dancing Lesson: On the Twist
assisted by Christine Norton and the Frank and Peggy Spencer Formation Dancers
Hostess, Rosalie Ashley
followed by The Weather; Close Down