During term time the BBC provides a wide range of television programmes to Schools of all types. Today there is an opportunity to see two secondary school programmes.

12.15 Science and Life: New Materials
A series designed to show the application of science and technology to everyday life.
A programme about long chain molecules and the making and shaping of plastics.
Introduced by Arthur Garratt.
(First shown in May 1961)

12.35 Going to Work: Clerical and Secretarial Work
A series on careers for school leavers.
Introduced by Peter West.
Nearly 100,000 girls go into some kind of clerical or secretarial work each year. The School Film Unit visits Aberdeen to look at the office jobs that some school leavers find and to discover what they can aim for when they are older.
(First shown in February 1962)

(to 12.55)

News in Welsh.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)

Rhai o'r ffilmiau a deledwyd 0 dro i dro yng nghyfres Heddiw Eglwys Norwy Abertawe Prydlesi'r
Rhondda Boneddwr Mawr y Bala
Y cyflwyno gan OWEN EDWARDS
Y cyfarwyddo gan GERAINT JONES
A second showing of films from 'Heddiw'.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)

Around and About the Home with Richard Waring.
Including:

Looking at Lamps with Kenneth Robinson

Deryck Guyler's Hobby: Model soldiers

Victor Sassie with a recipe for Transylvanian Stuffed Cabbage

Making the Best of Yourself
Nan Winton interviews Mrs. Fowler from Finsbury.

For the very young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children and invites them to join in the songs and games.
BBC film
(to 14.15)

by Gordon Murray.
Another showing of The Wonky Wand
Presented by the BBC Puppet Theatre
BBC film

A second chance to see the weekly series of films taken by travellers and explorers on their expeditions throughout the world.

On the second hop of their balloon Sight across East Africa Anthony Smith, Douglas Botting, and Alan Root fly over Lake Manyara and eventually come down near the Ngorongoro Crater. Apart from the thrill of seeing big game animals from a new and strange vantage point as they drift silently over them, the balloonists have to contend with unusual air conditions.

A daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Richard Baker.
followed by The Weather

in which Jimmy Young presents artists of the future.
Ann Emery, Harvey and Alexis, Johnnie, Mike, and the Shades, The Jolaes Puppets, Alan Kirby and his Jazzmen, Lilane, Sol Raye

Look around with Cliff Michelmore, Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Julian Pettifer and Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor.

A series by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.

Ian finds that being a film star has its own problems, while Adrian is in trouble with pictures of another kind-but he finishes up at a cinema with Iris. Bryan's detective work drives Mark into an awkward situation.

says Eamonn Andrews to ?

A new film series of the courtroom dramas.
Starring E.G. Marshall and Robert Reed
with guest star James Broderick

Written by Richard Wade.
Give me the splendid silent sun With all its beams full dazzling (Walt Whitman)
Most people regard the South of France merely as a sun-soaked play-ground for millionaires. But time brings change - and the changes in the South of France have significance beyond belief.
A documentary film.
Introduced by Derek Hart who visits the French Riviera, meets Baroness Agnes de Stoeckl and Charles Graves, and finds that things are not what they were.

Half-an-hour with Mary McCarthy, American writer and wit filmed in Paris with Peter Duval Smith.
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