A programme for children at home.
(to 11.30)
7.30 Growth and Play: 9: Playing with Words
A series of ten programmes.
Children in school are given many opportunities to talk before they learn to read and write. Their talk grows out of their experience, their writing out of a desire to communicate this experience, and their reading out of a desire to confirm and extend it.
By showing the child picture books, by reading and talking to him, and above all, by listening to him, the parent prepares the way for reading and writing and other and subtler forms of communication such as authorship and poetic writing.
Mabel B. Denny
Introduced by Tony Gibson.
First transmission on BBC-1, May 31, 1964
8.0 Steel: 8: Hardening and Tempering
The heat treatment of steel.
Introduced by Jack Ashley.
8.30 Clearway for Transport: 4: After Buchanan
A series of five programmes reflecting current thinking on the problems of road and rail transport in Britain.
The car explosion challenges our urban way of life. Can the two be reconciled in a way that makes economic and social sense?
Presented by Dr. Peter Hall, Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London.
with contributions from:
Professor Colin Buchanan of Imperial College, London; W. K. Smigielski, City Planning Officer, Leicester; Christopher Foster, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
9.0 The Arab World: 7: The Arab Revival
Ninety million people in search of a future.
A series of eight programmes outlining historical and other factors affecting their choice.
Arab literature, music, painting, architecture, and films. Is Arab art original? Or is it derived from Western models?
[Starring] The Marx Brothers
followed by The Weather
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests.
