The third day from The Winter Gardens, Blackpool.
A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Julie Stevens, Rick Jones
In the story chair, Athene Seyler
Further reports from Blackpool.
(to 12.30; 14.30-17.30)
The first chapter in British history told through recent archaeological discoveries by Barry Cunliffe.
The lowlands were easy but the North and West took longer. By the year 130 Hadrian's Wall was finished.
From the West
Introduced by Harry Carpenter and in the studio, to talk about his career, ex-heavyweight champion of the world Ingemar Johansson.
Gershon Mendeloff: wherever the fight game is discussed somebody will say he was the best Britain ever produced. His ring name: Ted 'Kid' Lewis
London: 1920 Ted Kid Lewis v. Johnny Basham
There had to be a decider and it was a fight in which anything could happen.
Miami Beach: March 13, 1961
Floyd Patterson v. Ingemar Johansson
Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring.
The new Volvo 144 Saloon makes its first appearance in Britain this week. It is made at Gothenburg in a factory as long as Pall Mall. Wheelbase road-tests the new Volvo in London and visits the Torslanda works in Sweden where inspectors can send faulty cars 'back to square one' on the production line to be assembled all over again.
Tales from the last frontier of the great American West.
A film series starring James Drury as The Virginian
A beautiful woman uses subterfuge to gain the Virginian's friendship and then exploits it to try to settle an old score.
A series of three conversations.
Cyril Connolly talks to Jonathan Miller.
"There are two great virtues - one it affection and the other curiosity."
"I don't use the word 'sin' much - it's more a sense of waste."
followed by The Weather
A last look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion
Including:
1066-The Truth
What hidden message was in the tin washed up on Pevensey's shore?
What part had Edward the Confessor in Harold's death?
Only now, after 900 years, can the true facts behind William's landing be revealed.
