A programme for children at home
Today's story: "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" by Ian Fleming
(to 11.20)
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents at home and abroad, of BBC News.
Followed by The Weather
(Colour)
Looking at the news and the men behind the news in the world of money
Introduced by Brian Widlake, John Tusa, Graham Turner
(Colour)
A special programme with some of the top jazz artists who have appeared in this series from the Aldeburgh Festival Concert Hall
The Oscar Peterson Trio, The Gary Burton Quartet, Count Basie and his Orchestra,
The Dizzy Gillespie Big Band Reunion, The Earl Hines All-Stars
Introduced by Benny Green
(The above artists appear by arrangement with Harold Davison)
Tonight Jazz at the Mattings draws to a spectacular close with a compilation of the stars who gave the series its extraordinary lustre. Thus the final programme distils the essence of the past six months' music.
(Colour)
by Barry Bermange
[Starring] Tony Bilbow, Michael Coles, Polly Elwes, Denys Hawthorne, Libby Morris
You are invited to be present at a dinner party given by Miss Libby Morris. It is a very unusual dinner party and one it is hoped you won't forget. The experience for you, the viewer, is likely to be harrowing and that's how it should be for this unusual and unscripted play is designed to involve you personally in the violence of our times.
(Colour)
Horizon - Man and Science today
Animal communication is a little understood aspect of animal survival. There are a number of well-known reasons why animals survive. How far does their ability to convey messages to one another help them keep their species alive?
This film was made in Kiev in the best Soviet nature film tradition. It contains no experts, only the communicators themselves-birds and bees, ants, fish, and baboons. Their communication systems were in use millions of years before Man evolved his own methods.
King Solomon's Garden is a world of odour, gesture, colour, cries of alarm, and various types of orientation signalling. It is a world that will be slow to give up its secrets, but which is beginning to give up a few of them in response to sensitive recording techniques and patient searches into the group behaviour of animals.
(Colour)
by Anthony Trollope
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Gurney
London in the 1870s is gripped in a fever of speculation. The latest figure to emerge at the centre of this scene is Augustus Melmotte, a man reputed to possess a large fortune.
(Shown on Saturday)
(Colour)
(Colour)
The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)
