Previously shown on Tuesday
(to 10.25)
Cliff and Janet go to a Road Safety Rally.
Previously shown on Tuesday
(to 11.25)
Douglas Craig, with illustrations taken from Benjamin Britten's opera The Little Sweep, shows how the music governs most of what we see in opera, from the acting to the setting.
Also taking part:
Members of the choirs of Ealing Grammar School for Boys and Notting Hill and Ealing High Schools for Girls
Conducted by Kenneth Alwyn
for Schools
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Llanddona, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Edrych ar y byd a'i bethau Cwrdd a phob)
Ymweld a lleoedd Ymdrln a phynciau yng nghwmni Owen Edwards Rhaglen ddyddiol dan ofat Nan Davies, Ifor Rees, Jack Williams
Today: a topical magazine.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Llanddona, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
A mid-week miscellany of Topics to talk about, New things to see and People worth meeting.
Introduced by David Jacobs.
When threatened by disease, the body mobilises its defences. It may be assisted in this, particularly in the case of the virus diseases, by the technique of immunisation. A notable example of this is smallpox.
Introduced by Professor W. T. Williams.
with Frank Sieman, Hilary Mason, Una Trimming, Harvey Clark, Margaret Stallard and Jacqueline Blackmore
for Schools
For the very young
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
Peter Hawkins speaks the voices
Maria Bird writes the songs and music
BBC film
(to 14.45)
The adventures of a little animal.
An exciting fancy dress party at end of term.
Drawn and written by Pauline Bewick.
Told by Peter Hawkins.
A new film cartoon series about the gang of Alley Cats captained by the ever-resourceful and formidable Top Cat.
Top Cat tries to help Choo Choo with his romance, but complications arise.
A film from Yugoslavia.
Over the mountains and through the valleys of Montenegro the little train makes its daily journey.
A news magazine for South-East England followed by The Weather.
Local News and Weather
(Rowridge, Brighton, Manningtree)
Barry Bucknell's weekly do-it-yourself television guide to new ways of improving and modernising a house.
The old house has been surveyed for improvement and conversion, the Local Authority has been given details for examination, and work is now beginning on the upstairs kitchen.
Barry Bucknell makes a serving-hatch between kitchen and dining-room, and makes and fits wall cupboards with sloping fronts and sliding doors.
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings.
Written by Sid Green and Dick Hills.
Second showings of the most popular editions of Citizen James.
This week: The Pensioner
Starring Sidney James
with Sydney Tafler
featuring Patrick Cargill, Hugh Lloyd, Sidney Vivian, Michael Stainton, Ronnie Brody, Louis Mansi, Stan Simmons, John Bramley
A film biography of one of the world's most successful and best-loved comedians.
By Hope: I decided to quit boxing. I wasn't making hospital expenses.
About Hope: He tries to do much more than the twenty-four hours a day allow.
In Hope: I'll never consider anything I do in show business work, as long as you laugh. When you stop laughing then it will be work.
With Hope: How can this be a battle of wits and I'm losing.
Against Hope: We've had a perfect relationship for show business. I've only been fired seven times.
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Stock Car Racing: The British Championship for Formula II Stock Cars
Televised direct from the New Cross Stadium, London
The winner will also receive the Festival Trophy.
Racing: The Derby
A preview of Britain's top classic.
Cricket: England v. Pakistan
Brian Johnston discusses the prospects for the First Test beginning tomorrow at Edgbaston.
Football
News from Chile on the eve of England's first World Cup match.
A Challenge to Invention
Astonishing film of the extraordinary devices and contraptions made by a secret Admiralty department during the war.
Some didn't work; Some blew up
Some did what was intended: they helped to win the war
From the West
with Robert Robinson
A further look at points from the week's post.
Next edition: Monday at 6.35
Letters for inclusion in these programmes should be addressed to: Points of View, [address removed]
A critical survey of books and writers.
including
The Novels of Jack Jones discussed by Jack Jones, Peter Duval Smith.
10.0-10.30 View of South and West
(Rowridge, Brighton)
10.0-10.30 Scan: life in East Anglia.
(Manningtree)
Poland's film entry for the 1961 Italia Prize takes a look at a busy maternity hospital.
It shows with imaginative insight the mothers' anticipation, the fathers' anxiety, and finally the joy of the parents as they leave the hospital with the new member of the family.
followed by The Weather; Close Down
Trin a thrafod materion y dydd
Discussion on present-day problems.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Llanddona, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
(to 23.30)