A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Carole Ward, Colin Jeavons
In the story chair, Elizabeth Hunt
Each day this week Colin Jeavons and Carole Ward introduce a new word.
The story today is Sammy the Sparrow
This week's programmes were first shown last year (March 7-11)
(to 11.25)
At the National Engineering Laboratory the performance of large pumps is being measured to an accuracy never before achieved on a test of this size. This has meant developing against the clock new techniques and instruments.
The pumps are only models - experimental designs for the big pumps that will drive water from north to south California over a mountain range. The need for accuracy is because the full-size pumps will consume so much electricity that even small increases in efficiency would lead to the saving of millions of pounds.
Presented by Dr. L. Grunberg and Dr. E.A. Spencer.
Highlights of famous revues introduced by Alan Melville.
Starring this week Ronnie Barker, George Benson, Dora Bryan, Cicely Courtneidge, Eleanor McCready, Hermione Gingold, Joyce Grant, Jimmy Thompson, Roberta Tovey in excerpts from The Home that Jack Built (1929), Rise Above It (1942), Sky High (1953), For Amusement Only (1956), Living for Pleasure (1958).
Dora Bryan is appearing in 'Hello Dolly' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
The weekly series about films and film-makers.
Franco Zeffirelli, Richard Burton and Kenneth Tynan talk to Peter Kennerley about the film chosen for the Royal Film Performance The Taming of the Shrew and about the problems of translating Shakespeare to the screen.
An opera by Tchaikovsky.
Scene: Russia, about 1820, in the country: and at St. Petersburg, seven years later
The Ambrosian Opera Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, John Georgiadis
Associate conductor, Guy Woolfenden
Conductor, David Lloyd-Jones
Elizabeth Bainbridge appears by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Eric Stannard by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
There will be a short interval at 10.5* between Acts 1 and 2
A last look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.
