A programme for children at home
Today's story: "Maurice the Mouse" by Leslie Pitt
Illustrated by Michael Foreman
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(Colour)
(to 11.20)
by Professor Philip Morrison
The Royal Institution, London, Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People
We now know how size determines the laws of physics. But the physicist knows that size is more fundamental; for his work with small and large objects has taught him that the laws of machines and electricity are not the only laws of physics. We enter this new physics by examining the simple vibrator - at every possible scale -
far beyond the imagination of Jonathan Swift.
Recorded this afternoon at the Royal Institution
(Colour)
(to 19.00)
Introduced by D. R. C. Holmes, C.Eng., A.M.I.Prod.E.
Repeated next week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (not Scottish) on BBC-1 and BBC Wales
Lathes, drills, shaping machines, milling machines, borers, these are most people's ideas of the engineer's tools. All are used for cutting. There is a wide variety of tools for cutting metal, but they are fundamentally the same. They are all wedges. This group of five programmes will show how good workmanship in cutting metals depends on understanding its fundamental principles. Joining metal makes perhaps a logical sequel to cutting it, and later programmes will show gas and electric welding.
(Colour)
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and The Weather
(Colour)
Horizon - Man and science today
'Mama... Papa... cup'-Vicky, the only chimpanzee ever to speak
We humans are so used to being the most intelligent animals on earth that we never really ask why this is. And yet the other animals have also developed intelligence, many of them to a high degree. But none of them comes near to the achievements of even the least educated of men. Is it just a matter of time before they do, or are they stuck permanently one rung below man on the ladder of intelligence? How can men use what intelligence the animals have now?
Tonight's investigation of the intelligence of animals includes pigeons that recognise human faces, squirrels that count, a chimpanzee that talks, and the ever-popular dolphin.
(Colour)
from the Aldeburgh Festival Concert Hall
A weekly series featuring some of the world's top jazz artists in concert
Tonight: Barney Kessel
with Kenny Baldock (bass), Tony Crombie (drums)
Introduced by Benny Green
(Barney Kessel appears by arrangement with Harold Davison)
(Colour)
Easy goes, easy goes!...
Divers are like children...
Gold! Finding it is like saving a man's life...
A story of the courage, the excitement, and the passions of a successful underwater adventure -the boyhood dream of Roland Morris , whose team of divers work a hundred feet down in the Atlantic, barely twenty-five miles from Land's End, on the wreck site of the treasure ship H.M.S. Association, lost at the Gilstone Ledges, Isles of Scilly, on the night of October 22, 1707.
from the South and West
(Colour)
Looking at the news and the men behind the news in the world of money
Introduced by Brian Widlake, Graham Turner, John Tusa
(Colour)
by Anne Bronte
A second chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Christopher Fry
Starring Janet Munro
Gilbert, already on bad terms with Lawrence, has seen him with Helen at Wildfell Hall.
Shown on Saturday
(Colour)
(Colour)
The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)
