News in Welsh.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Today: a Welsh topical magazine.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Some have said it is suicide to try... and some have tried
Lydia Sokolova, Diaghilev Ballet, 1913-1929
Derek Oldham, Leading tenor of musical comedy
and Billy Russell 'On behalf of the working classes' 25 years a top-of-the-bill comic talk of careers, retirements, and comebacks with Meryl O'Keefe in a comeback mood with ballads Brendan O'Dowda sings accompanied by James Moody at the piano.
From the Midlands
For the very young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
BBC film
(to 14.15)
A new film series of the adventures of Hammy and his friends.
A mystery of the Riverbank is solved with the help of Guinea Pig's oil-can.
Commentary spoken by Johnny Morris.
Another thrilling adventure with his band of black-hearted pirates and cabin boy Tom.
A second chance to see this animated cartoon written and drawn by John Ryan.
Storyteller, Peter Hawkins
Peter West looks at the latest inventions and ideas making news in science and industry, and shows how they work.
This week: The New Farms
An outside broadcast from Nottingham University School of Agriculture with David Dimbleby, Gwynneth Tighe.
A daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Richard Baker.
followed by The Weather
Percy Thrower and Ken Burras
Pot plants, foliage, hedgerow material, and cut shrubs in the house during Christmas week.
For the serious plantsman: 2: Hollies and Mistletoe and Plant Marriages
The need for cross-pollination to ensure berrying on some popular winter shrubs including Skimmia and Pernettya.
From the Midlands
with Robert Robinson
A further look at points from the week's post.
Letters for inclusion in these programmes should be addressed to Points of View, [address removed]
Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Julian Pettifer and Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.
From Antioch to the Gulf of Aqaba the Crusaders built castles-forts to guard the pilgrim route and great bastions to defend the Holy City of Jerusalem. Here the knights and squires of Europe lived and loved and fought-and often died; and here, against the magnificent background of their ruined castles, their story is retold.
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A film series.
Stubborn pride at first prevents the young Indian doctor, Ramid, from accepting assistance when Dr. Kildare tries to help him.
Written by Dave Freeman.
Benny Hill in a new series of unlikely situations.
featuring Graham Stark, Moyra Fraser, Priscilla Morgan, Patricia Hayes, Peter Vernon, Lala Lloyd and David Keir
Priscilla Morgan appears by permission of the Directors of the Old Vic Trust
A farce by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres.
Translated by Peter Glenville
with Cyril Shaps, Geoffrey Bayldon, William Kendall, Joan Sanderson and June Whitfield
A quiet night with your best friend's wife in a discreet little hotel. That is how Monsieur Boniface intends it should be...
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