A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Carole Ward, Peter Reeves
In the story chair, Charlie Cairoli
(to 11.25)
Salt water covers seventy per cent of the earth's surface: a gigantic challenge to our curiosity and scientific skill.
Marine biologists are slowly unravelling the complex and inter-related life-cycles of the animals in the sea.
Peter Stone introduces the sixth of a series of seven programmes.
With Dr. D.H. Cushing and Dr. F.R. Harden Jones, Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft.
(Programme 7: next Thursday, 7.30)
Introduced by Harry Carpenter
The first fight tonight features one of those legendary finishes where if you were late in your seat, went to buy a programme or simply turned to speak to the man next to you, you had bought your ticket and missed the fight.
Rome: May 2, 1954 Randolph Turpin v. Tiberio Mitri - The European Middleweight Championship
The words' Champion of the World' only rarely apply to a British boxer.
We have had many contenders who looked good but couldn't take the crown. Occasionally one outstanding man brings it off and the fans never forget it. The last fight of the present series is given to just such a man: Randolph Turpin
London: July 10, 1951 Sugar Ray Robinson v. Randolph Turpin - The Middleweight Championship of the World
On film to discuss the fight, Sugar Ray Robinson
Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring.
Motorised farming dominated this year's Smithfield Show with a wider choice than ever of tractors and harvesters. But as 1966 ends and farmers look ahead to a new year on the land can they depend on these varied new forms of four-wheeled farming to provide bumper crops in 1967? An on-the-spot enquiry at the Sonning Farm of Reading University's Department of Agriculture.
The Vatican and the Via Veneto are only a mile apart. The sacred and the secular, like twisted threads, have run all through Rome's history.
They are traced on a tour of the city by Peter Nichols and Fr. William Purdy.
With Cardinal Marella, Princess Doria Pamphili and Elsa Martinelli.
Introduced by Patrick Smith.
BBC film
(Excerpt from 'La Dolce Vita' by courtesy of Gala Films Ltd.)
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The great sitar player in a recital of Indian classical music.
With Alia Rakha (tabla).
Introduced by The Earl of Harewood.
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.
