A programme for children at home
Today: "Felix the Bald-headed Lion" by Kenneth Townsend
(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
Columbus discovered land in the West in 1492. The men who followed him recognised the existence of a new continent and established a Spanish empire in America.
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Sullivan, Tom Mangold, Brian Saxton, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.
Followed by The Weather
(Colour)
by N.J. Crisp
Starring Marius Goring
with Ann Morrish
and Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth, Valerie Murray
Guest stars, Ray Brooks, John Tate
When violent death strikes down a pretty farm girl, Dr. Hardy and Inspector Fleming come up against a wall of reserve. Overshadowing everything is the domineering father. Persistence at last brings Dr. Hardy to a 'not inconsiderable suspicion' of the killer's identity. But proof...
(Colour)
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(Colour)
A personal view by Kenneth Clark
'The smile of reason... it seems to us shallow - we've got into deep water in the last fifty years... but it didn't preclude some strongly held beliefs -
belief in natural law, belief in justice, in toleration, in humanitarianism.'
The sensible, sophisticated men and women who met in the salons of eighteenth-century Paris wanted to change society. In the end they got more of a change than they had bargained for. The polite reunions in those elegant salons became precursors of revolutionary politics. Sir Kenneth Clark's theme takes him from great palaces like Blenheim and Versailles, to Edinburgh, and to the hills of Virginia where Thomas Jefferson made his home in the 1760s.
Shown on Sunday
The narrative of this programme will be printed in 'The Listener' of May 1
(Colour)
Presenting a series of feature films reflecting some of the finest works of many of France's most famous and talented directors and artists
This week: The Golden Coach (original English-language version)
Starring Anna Magnani
with Duncan Lamont, Paul Campbell
A beautiful actress breaks at least three hearts while on tour in South America.
(Colour)
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 effect of M.P.s' work inside and outside Westminster.
(Colour)
The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)
