Today's story is called "Make Way for Ducklings"
Story and pictures by Robert McCloskey.
(Colour)
(to 11.20)
In the 1920s a battle was fought between two Americas: not the North and the South but the Old and the New. Presidents Harding and Coolidge were products of the Old America and, temporarily, the Old won.
Written and introduced by Professor Marcus Cunliffe.
(First shown on BBC-1)
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents of BBC News.
Followed by The Weather
(Colour)
by Hugh Leonard
Starring Cyril Cusack as 'Jumbo' Boylan
(Colour)
Twenty-five years after the Warsaw Ghetto, German television commemorates the uprising. The 'final solution' was enacted also in the concentration camps-Polish television reports from Auschwitz, where archaeologists are excavating on the site of the gas chamber.
Introduced this week by Olivier Todd.
A selection of musical milestones from the golden days of the silver screen.
Tonight: the 1945 production Incendiary Blonde
Starring Betty Hutton, Arturo de Cordova
with Barry Fitzgerald, Charles Ruggles, Albert Dekker
The life and times of Texas Guinan, one of America's most famous night-club entertainers during the 1920s with such popular songs as 'It had to be you,' 'Ragtime Cowboy Joe,' 'Ida,' and many others.
(Colour)
(Colour)
A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley.
(Colour)
