A programme for children at home.
(to 11.30)
Richard Dimbleby, Ian Trethowan, Nigel Lawson explain what this afternoon's Budget speech means to you.
George Mackie, M.P., Liberal; Peter Shore, M.P. Labour; Peter Walker, M.P., Conservative comment from Westminster.
A Gallery Special
Growth and Play: 10: Playing with Numbers
A series of ten programmes.
Young children play with their toes, and count the stairs going up to bed. Before long they are asking 'How many?' and 'How much?' At the Infants School they learn to answer these questions as they arise in their everyday life; and already, they are beginning to calculate.
L.C. Schiller
Introduced by Tony Gibson.
(First transmission on BBC-1, June 7, 1964)
8.0 Steel: 9: Scrap Back to Steel
Half of Britain's steel comes from re-melting the out-of-date products of the steel industry a generation ago.
Introduced by Jack Ashley.
8.30 Clearway for Transport: 5: Integrating Road and Rail
A series of five programmes reflecting current thinking on the problems of road and rail transport in Britain.
Should co-ordination be the guiding light of transport policy? If so, what forms could it take?
Presented by Dr. Peter Hall, Lecturer at Birkbeck College, London.
Speakers: The Rt. Hon. Tom Fraser, M.P. Minister of Transport; Dr. Richard Beeching, Chairman, British Railways; John Davies, member of the Transport Advisory Committee; Christopher Foster, Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford
9.0 The Arab World: 8: Work in Progress
Ninety million people in search of a future.
A series of eight programmes outlining historical and other factors affecting their choice.
'This is not an ordinary renaissance that takes its time and grows slowly. This is a time of turmoil, of coups d'etat in our thought as it is in our regimes..." A discussion between young artists and writers, filmed in Beirut, is continued in the studio.
Discussion filmed in Beirut: Youssef al Khal, Wada Faris, Riad Rayess, Nur Salman
The Chancellor of the Exchequer The Rt. Hon. James Callaghan, M.P. for the Government.
Also on BBC-1
A romantic comedy of 1936.
[Starring] Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda
with Charles Butterworth, Beulah Bondi
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Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests.