A programme for children at home.
(to 11.25)
How can we choose a random sample of fifty from the people of London? Put the ten million names in a hat and lucky dip for fifty? This is tried, but it is impractical. An analysis leads to random numbers.
Presented by Stewart Gartside.
Repeated next week For Schools
A comedy film series starring the master comedian with the mean streak Jack Benny
who finds this week's guest Milton Berle a bit of a handful!
On August 31, 1939, Alfred Naujocks received a telephone call from Nazi Secret Service headquarters. The message 'Grandmother Dead' triggered off an incident on the Polish border which was to change the face of Europe.
After twenty-six years of silence, Naujocks gives his version of the part he played in this event which started World War II.
by Robert Storey.
Starring Bob Monkhouse as Stephen Watson, Joan Sims as Jill Watson, Jacqueline Ellis as Myra Briggs
See page 45
Count Basie and his Orchestra in a programme by this great American band featuring some of its most successful hits over the years.
Including: April in Paris, Jumpin' at the Woodside, Li'l Darlin', 1 O'Clock Jump, Whirly Bird
(Count Basie and his Orchestra appear by arrangement with Harold Davison and Norman Granz)
See page 45
by Thomas Mann.
A second chance to see this dramatisation in seven parts by Jack Pulman.
First shown on Saturday
See page 4
followed by The Weather
Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian, Joan Bakewell and tonight's guests.
