A programme for children at home
Today: "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny" by Beatrix Potter
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(Colour)
(to 11.20)
Ten programmes about Europe's discovery of the outside world
What did Europeans know about the world outside Europe in 1400, and where did their information come from?
What people thought about the world outside Europe and what they found when they actually got there were two very different things. This series is about the effect that this discovery had both on Europeans and the people they found.
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Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.
Followed by The Weather
(Colour)
by John Gould
Starring Marius Goring
with Ann Morrish
and Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth
Guest stars: Katherine Blake, John Collin, Michael Johnson, Fulton Mackay, Neil McCallum, Alan MacNaughtan, Veronica Strong
Martin Ingram, who has been arrested for assaulting Vivien, stands trial for his alleged crime. He is defended by a brilliant woman Q.C. The main action in this episode takes place in the court and the result of the trial remains in doubt until almost the last moment.
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Fanny Cradock shows how even the most economical dishes can be made to look appetising and attractive.
Recipes demonstrated in these programmes are published as a booklet, price 2s. 6d. from booksellers, or 3s. 3d. by post from BBC Publications, [address removed].
(Colour)
A personal view by Kenneth Clark
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'All the greatest exponents of civilisation, from Dante to Goethe, have been obsessed by light-perhaps one could take it as the supreme symbol of civilisation. But in the seventeenth century light passed through a crucial stage. The invention of the lens was giving it a new range and power.'
The telescope and the microscope revealed new worlds in space and in a drop of water; and the realism of Dutch painting carried a stage further the observation of human character. Sir Kenneth Clark's story takes him from the Holland of Rembrandt and Vermeer to the London of Wren, Purcell, and the Royal Society.
Shown on Sunday
The narrative of this programme is printed in 'The Listener' of April 17
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A series of feature films reflecting some of the finest work of many of France's most famous and talented directors and artists
Starring Jean-Pierre Leaud
Lack of parental affection and loneliness make a twelve-year-old boy introverted and dishonest. For twelve-year-old Antoine Doinel school means a dilapidated classroom, old-fashioned punishments, sarcasm, and ignorance. At home the atmosphere is one of indifference. Antoine cuts school, steals from his parents, cribs the ending for an essay, and catches sight of his mother kissing a lover in the street.
David Holmes looks back over the past week in Parliament and introduces reports and 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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