A programme for children at home
Today's story: "Jeanne-Marie in gay Paris" by Francoise
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(to 11.20)
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
Accompanying pamphlet: see page 11
(Colour)
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
(Colour)
Horizon - Man and science today
Can you multiply 65 X 65 in your head? Do you know what a chromosome is? A seven-year-old child answers both these questions in a few seconds in this week's 'Horizon'
In this country we make provision for the bottom two per cent of schoolchildren, but are we neglecting the needs of the top two per cent? Should there be special schools for children talented in music or mathematics or of exceptionally high I.Q.?
The programme investigates new research into the ways children think and use their imagination, and also gives parents who consider their children gifted, insight into new techniques of education based on this research.
(Colour)
from the Aldeburgh Festival Concert Hall
A weekly series featuring some of the world's top jazz artists
Tonight: The Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet
with Michael Garrick on piano, Dave Green on bass, Trevor Tomkins on drums
Introduced by Benny Green
The Don Rendell-Ian Carr Quintet appears by arrangement with Harold Davison
(Colour)
Last September a priest called Padre Pio died in a remote convent near Foggia in the south of Italy. For fifty years he had borne on his body five bleeding wounds corresponding to the five wounds of Christ.
Filmed in the last months of his life, this is the story of the life and death of the priest they called a saint.
Commentary written and spoken by Patrick O'Donovan
(Colour)
Looking at the news and the men behind the news in the world of money
Introduced by Brian Widlake, Graham Turner, John Tusa
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by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A second chance to see this dramatisation in six parts by Hugh Leonard
Madame Stavrogin and her son's tutor Stepan, leaders of society in a Russian provincial town, are eagerly awaiting Nikolay, Madame Stavrogin's son.
Shown on Saturday
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In his centenary year the twenty-first anniversary of his assassination is commemorated in St. Paul's Cathedral, London
By permission of The Dean and Chapter
Address by The Archbishop of Canterbury
Recollections of Mahatma Gandhi by Lord Mountbatten
Indian devotional songs by a choir of Indian ladies with sitar
Gandhi's favourite hymns:
Lead, kindly light
When I survey the wondrous Cross
by The Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral
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