A programme for children at home.
(to 11.30)
2.30 Greenham Handicap Hurdle Race (Div. 1)
over 21 miles and 120 yards
3.0 Harwell Amateur Riders' Handicap Steeple Chase
over 3 miles
3.30 Thatcham Handicap Steeple Chase
over 2 miles
4.0 Aldermaston Novices' Steeple Chase (Div. 2)
over 2 miles and 160 yards
(to 16.10)
A series of three films by Adrian Cowell.
Throughout the Andes in Carnival time everything stops for two weeks in the year. From the Uru people who live on the tiny floating islands of Lake Titicaca to the serfs of the vast landowners, the Indians celebrate this great annual festival. The towns and villages echo with music and gaiety, but beneath it all runs a sinister undercurrent of violence.
An Adventure presentation
First transmission on August 2, 1962
A thriller serial in five parts by Colin Morris.
Starring William Dexter, William Mervyn, Patricia Haines
First transmission on Monday
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by Troy Kennedy Martin and John McGrath.
with Victor Henry, Richard Moore, Nerys Hughes
First transmission on BBC-1, August 29, 1964
The first programme of a series in which the performance of music is seen in preparation.
Tonight one of the world's leading singers Irmgard Seefried, Soprano and Geoffrey Parsons, Piano rehearse and perform Schubert's Die Forelle and Gretchen am Spinnrade and Mozart's An Chloe.
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followed by The Weather
Ian Trethowan looks back over the past week in Parliament and introduces reports on big debates in both Houses, questions to Ministers, significant moves behind the scenes, and the effects of M.P.s' work inside and outside Westminster.
with the BBC's Parliamentary and Political News Staff.
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests.