A course running through two academic years.
For Schools
First shown on September 17, 1962
The first-year broadcasts are at 9.40 a.m. on Mondays, 12 noon on Wednesdays.
Two specially prepared booklets containing examples and explanatory notes, price 1s. 6d. each, can be obtained by sending a crossed postal order to BBC Publications [address removed]
(to 10.00)
For Schools
Repeated on Wednesday at 9.40 a.m.
The second-year broadcasts are at 10.2 a.m. on Mondays, and at 10.2 a.m. on Wednesdays
(to 10.22)
For the very young
Vera McKechnie turns the pages in a new series.
BBC film
(to 11.00)
Kenneth Alwyn conducts members of the English Chamber Orchestra, led by Kenneth Sillito, in a concert that includes movements from Ibert's Divertissement.
He also introduces the four main groups of instruments and talks about the strings in particular.
For Schools
(to 11.25)
A series of five programmes about Britain's economic and political relations with Europe since the Second World War.
In 1945 most of the countries of Europe were destroyed. The way in which they were reconstructed led to a permanent change in the economic and political structure of Europe.
Introduced and scripted by Nicholas Harman.
For Schools
(to 11.55)
News in Welsh.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Owen Edwards yn cyflwyno pynciau'r dydd yng Nghymru gyda
Harri Gwynn a John Bevan
Today: a topical magazine.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
(to 13.35)
Introduced by Peter West.
All jobs have at least one thing in common-the initial interview. This programme, which is dramatised, looks at the interview from two angles-through the employers' eyes and through those of the young people they interview.
For Schools
(to 14.25)
If Prince Charming were alive today, how would he search for the owner of the glass slipper? The modern Prince holds a Press Conference.
Introduced by Christopher Trace.
For Schools
First shown in May 1962
(to 14.47)
Most of us count happily enough in tens, but the electrical circuits of computers thrive by counting with a different number system.
Introduced by Dick Tahta.
For Schools
(to 15.10)
Valerie Singleton introduces a magazine programme for younger viewers.
Including:
Hats and Macs
Wet-weather fashions for dolls.
Building an Airport
How to make a model look real.
A second showing of the adaptation by Constance Cox.
Based upon What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge.
Starring Susan Hampshire and John Welsh
A daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Michael Aspel.
followed by The Weather
against the general knowledge and I.Q. questions put to you by Gwynneth Tighe and Kenneth Kendall.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore.
with Derek Hart, Alan Whicker, Fyfe Robertson, Trevor Philpott, Kenneth Allsop, Macdonald Hastings, Christopher Brasher, Julian Pettifer, Brian Redhead.
Eric Robinson introduces a programme of the world's most popular melodies sung, danced, and played by Mattiwilda Dobbs, Viktor Rona and Adel Orosz, Bruno Hoffman, Carlina Carr.
The Eric Robinson Orchestra
Leader, David McCallum
A comedy film series featuring the misadventures of the craziest crew that ever manned a Patrol Torpedo-boat.
With Ernest Borgnine as Skipper McHale, Tim Conway as Ensign Charles Parker, Joe Flynn as Captain Binghamton, Carl Ballantine as Gruber
Charlie McHale and his crew shoot down a Japanese plane which has been harassing the island of Taratupa. But they have a problem when the pilot turns out to be no son of the Rising Sun.
The final programme of the series looks at the new Europe and Britain's relationship to it.
Introduced by David Dimbleby.
with Robert Robinson
A quick look at points from the week's post.
Letters for inclusion in these programmes should be addressed to Points of View, [address removed]
by Michael Ashe.
Starring Joyce Carey, Ralph Michael, Peggy Thorpe-Bates
With Alex Scott, Patricia Haines
From the Midlands
There is nothing more reassuringly English than a gentle middle-class old lady, given to knitting and sitting in the sun. But appearances can be deceptive...
A Ministerial Broadcast by The Home Secretary The Rt. Hon. Henry Brooke, M.P.
Kenneth Harris, who has made a tour of Civil Defence installations, puts questions about them and their purpose to the Home Secretary in a Warning and Monitoring Centre in South-East England.
at the Lyceum in the Strand
Organised by Mecca Dancing
Peter West with Judith Chalmers introduces the new Come Dancing season with the final selection of the Central London team for the coming series.
Expert advice by Peggy Spencer, Cecil Ruault
Expert dancing by Bill Irvine and Bobbie Irvine, Ken Park and Mavis Whiteside
Joe Loss and his Orchestra