Water has severe limitations as a cleanser, for it is a remarkable fact that there are many things which it cannot effectively wet. In today's programme Gerd Sommerhoff explains how detergents, including soap, facilitate wetting and so make cleansing easier.
(to 10.25)
'In its natural state,- a desert... nowadays the richest farmland in the United States'. The film explains how such a complete transition has been made in the Valley.
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.
for Schools
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Edrych ar y byd a'i bethau
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Conversation, comment and controversy from people with opinions.
Including Larry Adler, Erskine Childers, Gerald McKnight, Jacqueline Wheldon.
Introduced by Peter West.
How are young people trained to make shoes? And what is the work like? The programme visits a modern shoe factory in the West of England to find out.
BBC programme for Schools
For the very young
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
BBC film
(to 14.45)
A magazine programme for younger viewers
Introduced by Christopher Trace
including
Letter U in the Blue Peter Alphabet
and R.J. Martin showing you how to start Your Own Coin Collection
A second showing of the serial in eight parts by Frank Richards.
with Gerald Campion as Billy Bunter and Wally Bunter and Jack Melford as Mr Quelch
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: Mavis Abley, Andrew Hemphill, Jeffrey Segal
Chairman, Franklin Engelmann
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 Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Macdonald Hastings, Polly Elwes and Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.
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, Douglas Blackwell
Who is the strange little man who has turned up at the police station in Abereithin, and what is the mysterious substance which Louther and Cobley have hidden down the mine, and how is it connected with the English girl married to a Middle Eastern ruler?
direct from White Hart Lane
Outside Broadcast cameras cover the entire second half of this return European Cup match between the English and Czechoslovakian champions.
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.
for the final of the BBC Inter-Regional Dancing Contest
Organised by Mecca Dancing for the BBC Television Award and Formation Team Cup
Introduced by Peter West.
North-West
From The Ritz Ballroom, Manchester with Phil Moss and his Orchestra.
Compere, Geoffrey Wheeler
v.
South London
From the Locarno Ballroom, Streatham with Denny Boyce and his Orchestra.
Compere, Keith Fordyce
Before a panel of judges nominated by members of the Official Board of Ballroom Dancing Ltd., including the Welsh Alliance
followed by The Weather; Close Down