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A programme for children at home
In the story chair, Charles Leno
Today's story: 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' from 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' by Lewis Carroll
Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.
(Colour)
(to 11.20)

Contributors

Presenter:
Julie Stevens
Presenter:
Colin Jeavons
Storyteller:
Charles Leno
Author (Alice Through the Looking Glass):
Lewis Carroll

Horizon - man and science today

How are we trying to avoid another tragedy like thalidomide?
Have we the technical ability to avoid or to assess what harm, if any, the contraceptive pill is doing?
Is it possible that we are using one of our most valuable drugs, antibiotics, indiscriminately? In future decades will we regress into the pre-antibiotic era?
Tonight Horizon sets out to answer these questions and also looks at the interaction of commercial and medical pressures lying behind the complexities of dispensing drugs.
(Colour)

Contributors

Narrator:
Christopher Chataway
Editor:
R.W. Reid
Producer:
Peter Goodchild

A comedy film series which recognises the difference
Starring Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin as Paula and Dick Hollister
with Jack Cassidy as Oscar North and Kenneth Mars as Harry Zarakardos

Goodman Spare that Tree ...it's all good wood, Goodman!
(Colour)

Contributors

Paula Hollister:
Paula Prentiss
Dick Hollister:
Richard Benjamin
Oscar North:
Jack Cassidy
Harry Zarakardos:
Kenneth Mars

On November 18, 1967, the pound was devalued. How well has devaluation worked? How has it affected the cost of living, our exports, and international confidence in the British economy?
with reports by Graham Turner, William Davis, Brian Widlake, John Tusa

(Colour)

Contributors

Reporter:
Graham Turner
Reporter:
William Davis
Reporter:
Brian Widlake
Reporter:
John Tusa
Associate producer:
Udi Eichler
Producer:
Michael Bunce

by Henry James
Another chance to see this dramatisation in six parts by Jack Pulman
starring Richard Chamberlain as Ralph Touchett
Isabel has discovered that she has made a terrible mistake, that in searching for freedom she has found a cage.
Shown on Saturday
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Henry James
Dramatised by:
Jack Pulman
Producer:
David Conroy
Director:
James Cellan Jones
Ralph Touchett:
Richard Chamberlain

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Presenter:
Tony Bilbow
Presenter:
Brian King
Presenter:
Sheridan Morley
Editor:
Rowan Ayers

BBC Two England

About BBC Two

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

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About this data

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