A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'Bertie Bumble Bee'
(to 11.20)
Ten leading designers are invited to solve ten domestic problems for families who want to do some of the work themselves.
BBC film
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Accompanying pamphlet: see page 11
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The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents of BBC News
followed by The Weather
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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, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: The Mating Market
Up in the Catskill Mountains, two hours' drive from New York City, stands the Concord Hotel, a vast concrete camp renowned for one speciality-mating.
Here most weekends a human hotchpotch of 3,000 men and women pay nearly £20 a day to be herded together, like cattle in a market, and forcefully paired off by a social hostess called Rose.
Girls living dull city lives plan their robes and their roles weeks ahead; men who are normally office clerks promote themselves to lawyers and doctors. Most of the women are hunting for husbands. Most of the men are not hunting for wives.
It's a loud, brassy, boozy free-for-all. But despite the seemingly jolly veneer the more honest among the participants will admit that the whole scene is a sad charade. Even the snow on the ski-slopes was artificial.
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The Jacques Loussier Trio play the music of Bach in the style that has made them internationally famous
Jacques Loussier (piano), Pierre Michelot (bass), Christian Garros (percussion)
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A selection of musical milestones from the golden days of the silver screen
Tonight: The Best Things in Life are Free
Starring Gordon MacRae, Dan Dailey, Ernest Borgnine, Sheree North
The story of the song-writing team of De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson, featuring their successes of the twenties and thirties - 'Birth of the Blues', 'Black Bottom', 'Sonny Boy', 'Sunnyside Up', 'It All Depends On You', and many others.
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A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley
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