A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Miranda Connell, Gordon Rollings
In the story chair, Nancy Quayle

(to 11.25)

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

Tides once a day; tides twice a day; tides two feet high: tides fifty feet high. Every tide is different and our best 'predictions' are still basically guess work.
Peter Stone introduces the fourth of a series of seven programmes.
With Dr. J.R. Rossiter, Tidal Institute and Observatory, University of Liverpool.

Introduced by Harry Carpenter.

Billy Petrolle was so fast in the ring that Tad Dorgan, the famous boxing cartoonist, labelled him 'The Fargo Express'. The second time he met Tony Canzoneri the title was at stake and Petrolle had a full head of steam.
New York City: November 4, 1932 Tony Canzoneri v. Billy Petrolle - The world lightweight championship

It was easy in the early 1930s to underestimate Jack 'Kid' Berg. His slight appearance hid a great fighting heart. As a Briton fighting for more than four years in American rings he had to be tough.
Chicago: April 24, 1931 Tony Canzoneri v. Jack 'Kid' Berg

And in a filmed interview, Jack 'Kid' Berg discusses the pre-war fight scene.

Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring.

Within the next six months every new car sold in the United States - including imported British models - must be fitted with devices to reduce the amount of air pollution caused by engine exhaust gases. How many British cars for export will conform to this new clean-air law? Is vehicle pollution a serious risk to health in big cities like London and Los Angeles?

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

Returning to a town he left five years ago, Trampas upsets the delicate arrangement the townsfolk have with an outlaw gang when he arrests two of the gang for murder.

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.

by The Rev. Dennis Nineham, Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge.
This series of programmes on the development of the figure of Christ in the earliest Christian centuries has been arranged in conjunction with the University of Manchester Extra-Mural Department.
From the University Roscoe Building

(The Christ of the Early Greek Fathers, by The Rev. Benjamin Drewery: Dec. 16)

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.