A programme for children at home.
In the story chair, Myrtle Richardson
Today's story is called 'The Tale of Benjamin Bunny' by Beatrix Potter.
(to 11.20)
A monthly series of programmes for doctors.
Repeated next Wednesday evening, January 10, on BBC-1
(to 13.45)
by Professor Richard Gregory.
The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People
It is said that much of life is illusion; but this is an understatement. The pleasure of a conjuring trick and the strange disturbance of an optical illusion make this a provoking programme.
Lecture 4: Thursday at 4.30 p.m.
(Colour)
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson and Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Brian Saxton, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.
A review of the sciences.
"I rate John Baker as the greatest structural engineer alive today."
"As an engineer, his influence not only on structural design but on education has been tremendous."
Tonight's programme is a portrait of Professor Sir John Baker one of this country's most distinguished engineers (an engineer being, in his own words, a man who can do for 10/- what any fool can do for 11)
It traces his career from his early work on airships in the 1920s, on air-raid shelter design during the last war, to his present-day influence on young engineers in his department at Cambridge.
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(Colour)
A contest between teams from
Bournemouth
Eric Knight, Molly Harding, John Wallace
and
Central London
Michael Dowling, Kate Eldridge, Colin Vernon-Plummer
Introduced by Derek Hart.
Tonight's Crossword
(Colour)
Achievement... Happiness... Tragedy... Stress...
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
See colour feature on centre pages
(Colour)
A French film with English sub-titles.
Starring Yveline Cery, Stefania Sabatini, Jean-Claude Aimini
The adventures of a romantic trio which start in Paris and end in Corsica.
A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley.
"Look on 't again I dare not." (Shakespeare)
(Colour)
