A programme for children at home
Today's story: "Tobias Pilgrim builds a Starship" by Malcolm Carder
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
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(to 11.20)
Art and Architecture in Europe since 1945
Ten programmes which take a look at the look and the attitudes of the last twenty-five years
Introduced by John Donat and Paul Overy
In this last programme John Donat and Paul Overy draw together some of the threads of the series. What are the problems that face architects and planners? What will be the role of the artist in the future? These points are discussed with John Berger, the art critic, Maurice Broady, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton, and Lionel March of the University of Cambridge School of Architecture
The World Tonight
Reporting, John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
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Gordon Wilkins covers the Geneva Motor Show with Bernard Cahier and Judith Jackson
The Swiss buy cars for mountain motoring and all this week at the Geneva Motor Show every manufacturer in Europe has been trying to sell them a new model. Do the gradients of the Alps influence their choice of gear ratios and steering? Will the price of petrol - a shilling a gallon cheaper than in most places on the Continent - persuade drivers in Switzerland to buy big-engined cars with plenty of uphill power in 1969?
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This international musical humorist entertains in his unique one-man show of music, comedy, and pantomime
with The Alyn Ainsworth Orchestra
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A personal view by Kenneth Clark
'The architect Leon Battista Alberti addressed man in these words: "To you is given a body more graceful than other animals, to you power of apt and various movements, to you most sharp and delicate senses, to you wit, reason, memory like an immortal god."'
The early Renaissance saw Alberti and the other men of his time emerge as confident individuals, taking delight in art and ideas. Sir Kenneth Clark visits Florence, where European thought was first given a new impetus by the re-discovery of the classical past, and continues his journey to the palaces of Urbino and Mantua, centres of Renaissance civilisation.
Federigo Montefeltro was not only a powerful general and a wise ruler who valued humanity in government, but also a man of wide learning. Sir Kenneth considers his palace on its hilltop at Urbino to be one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the world. The Duke's sympathetic patronage drew artists of every kind to his court, among them Piero della Francesca, and Raphael and Bramante received their early training there.
Shown on Sunday
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A series of personal choices of prose and poetry
Guest reader: Barbara Jefford
Given before an invited audience at the Richmond Theatre, Surrey
(Postponed from February 21)
Sir Michael's choices include Alexander Woollcott's account of Mrs. Patrick Campbell's first night in The Second Mrs. Tanqueray. Sir Michael contributes his own prologue, and also a poem to celebrate his birth written by his actor-father.
Sir Michael's choices can be described as popular in the best sense of the word. Authors are Coleridge, Robert Graves, T.S. Eliot, Hans Andersen, Katherine Mansfield, Wordsworth, Belloc, and Kipling.
Incidentally this is the only programme in the series where our stars break into song, which they do in the setting of an anonymous poem collected by W.H. Auden.
A further series of Evenings will be televised shortly, with A.J. Ayer, Alan Bennett, Lord MacLeod, and Alistair Cooke.
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David Holmes looks back over the past week in Parliament and introduces reports on big debates in both Houses, questions to Ministers, significant moves behind the scenes, and the effects of M.P.s' work inside and outside Westminster
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The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
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