A programme for children at home.
Today's story is "The Happy Owls" by Celestino Piatti
(to 11.25)
Fourteen programmes on the laws that affect our daily lives.
Introduced by John Edmunds.
How can we be certain we receive goods of the quantity and quality we expect? This programme considers the law of weights and measures, food and drugs, false trade descriptions, and consumer protection. Two local authority officials explain their role in enforcing the legal standards laid down by the law.
With L.M. Griffiths, E.W. Pike
and Elizabeth Archer, Roy Spencer
A contest between teams from London (West) - Irene Thomas, Christopher Anderson, Neil Stein; and Belfast - Kate Pratt, Douglas Anderson, Malcolm Graham
Introduced by Derek Hart.
Gordon Wilkins covers the world of holiday motoring.
How far can family motorists drive this summer within the £50 foreign travel limit? Does the extra £25 car allowance cover petrol, oil, and running repairs on the road to the Mediterranean? Are the most distant resorts too expensive this year for the British? Wheelbase takes the new car ferry Patricia from Southampton to Bilbao to investigate the shortest -and cheapest-drive to the sun in the south of Spain.
A thriller in five parts by Jon Manchip White.
With Patrick Kavanagh, Anna Palk, Derek Francis
Rex links Col. Cooper's late daughter Prue with the mystery of Shelby's persecution and death. Nancy, shocked and frightened, still refuses to help.
(Shown on Saturday)
A profile of Claudio Monteverdi 1567-1643 the first modern composer.
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth, the BBC invited the American musicologist H.C. Robbins Landon to revisit Mantua and Venice (where Monteverdi worked) and to record his own appreciation of the music of one of the world's great composers.
Nadia Boulanger gives an additional view.
The music is taken from: La Favola Di Orfeo; The Vespers of 1610; Il Combattimento; Di Tancredi E Clorinda; Madrigals of War and Love; Gloria a 7; L'Incoronazione Di Poppea
Written and directed by Christopher Burstall.
including
Plunder: One Man and His Band
Harry Roy recalls the golden age of British dance music with excerpts from his films Everything is Rhythm (1936), Rhythm Racketeers (1937).
