A programme for children at home.
In the story chair, H. E. Todd
Today's story is called 'Talking to the Wind'
(to 11.25)
Eleven programmes for people who want to know more about the background of the countryside around them.
Introduced by Gordon Manley, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Lancaster.
Written by Richard Wade.
Starring Dudley Foster as Edward Hastings, Maggie Jones as Florence Hastings
'I flew like a bird, Florence, like a bird'. The head of the Hastings family did fly and flew in a glider made by the Special Effects Department of the BBC to drawings published in an edition of "Popular Mechanics", a magazine of the period. If you are a practical father then you are invited to share in the delights and disasters of leaving the ground 'like a bird'.
A look at the world through European eyes.
Introduced this week by Olivier Todd with the help of the cameras of the European television networks.
The High Chaparral ...is the bid of a family seeking roots in the newly won West
...is the threat to the new settlers from Mexicans and Indians
...and spells adventure in the Arizona territory of 1870.
See page 57
(Colour)
by W.M. Thackeray.
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Rex Tucker.
Starring Susan Hampshire
A new dramatisation in colour of this high comedy, renowned for its irony and wit.
(Shown on Saturday)
See page 3
(Colour)
A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King.
"I suppose, to use a national motto, something will turn up" (Benjamin Disraeli)
(Colour)
