A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Carol Chell, Brian Cant
In the story chair, Ian Wallace

(to 11.25)

Salt water covers seventy per cent of the earth's surface: a gigantic challenge to our curiosity and scientific skill.

Deep trenches, broad plains, and towering volcanic mountains make the fantastic landscape of the ocean floor.
Peter Stone introduces the first of a series of seven programmes.
With Rear-Admiral G.S. Ritchie, D.S.C., Hydrographer of the Navy.
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Introduced by Harry Carpenter.

On his way to the top. Jimmy McLarnin started as a flyweight. During this stage of his career he met and defeated Pancho Villa. By 1933 he was welterweight champion of the world, then he lost to Barney Ross in May 1934. This is the return match for the title.
New York City: September 17, 1934 Barney Ross v. Jimmy McLarnin
The second meeting - The welterweight championship of the world

Ross won the first, McLarnin regained his title four months later. Both contestants had gone the distance. After thirty rounds of boxing neither could say he was the better. The decider was set exactly one year after the first meeting and both men fully intended to win.
New York City: May 28, 1935 Barney Ross v. Jimmy McLarnin
The third meeting - The welterweight championship of the world

Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring from Italy.

One of the most beautiful and expensive cars ever made is being sold all over the world by a woman. Marisa Baldessari, a former opera singer and language scholar, is now, at the age of twenty-six, sales manager for Ferruccio Lamborghini, whose new £5,000 two-seater Miura is more luxurious than a Lagonda and faster than a Ferrari.
At the Turin Motor Show and at her home in Bologna Wheelbase looks at the life of the lady from Lamborghini who has won her way to the top in a salesman's world.

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Tales from the last frontier of the great American West.
A film series starring James Drury as The Virginian

An outlaw, with a grudge against Steve, returns to Medicine Bow after serving a prison sentence and the first thing he collects is his gun.

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 Hardiman Scott, David Holmes.

followed by The Weather

A last look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.