A programme for children at home.
In the story chair, Roy Castle
Today's story is called 'Ping Ping the Penguin'
(to 11.25)
The prize-winning film of one man's love for the desert and its people.
In 1946 the explorer Wilfred Thesiger crossed the desert known as 'The Empty Quarter', an incredible journey through lands where no European had travelled before.
"A beautiful film" (Maurice Wiggin, Sunday Times)
"A truly marvellous film" (Stanley Reynolds, The Guardian)
This film won first prize for the best 16 mm film on exploration at the Sixteenth International Festival of Mountain and Exploration Films in Trento, Italy, in September.
(Colour)
by Robert Moore Williams
Dramatised by Derrick Sherwin
The robots have rebelled against man and now they are the rulers until one day Robot Two has a new thought - he thinks that he is a man. His thought is to have far-reaching consequences for mankind, who through him learn something of their rich heritage.
(Colour)
A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives.
Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry Angela Huth, Jeremy James, John Percival, Trevor Philpott, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Suzy the Gossip
At the very centre of the brilliant world of New York high society is Suzy - queen of all the international gossip columnists: real name Aileen Mehle. Wherever people are famous, or aristocratic, or talented, or scandalous - and certainly wherever they are rich - is where she belongs. She moves among them freely, calls them beautiful people, and every day millions of Americans can read what she says about them in their papers. Now we too in Britain can read the column that has made her rich and famous. What is her world? Who are the people in it?
(Colour)
Tonight, the 1950 production Three Little Words
Starring Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Red Skelton, Arlene Dahl
with Keenan Wynn, Gloria de Haven
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A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley.
"To your text, Mr. Dean! To your text." (Queen Elizabeth I)
(Colour)
