A programme for children at home
Today's story: "The King's New Crown" by Sheila Archer
(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
In the eighty years between 1568 and 1648 the Dutch won their independence from Spain and took over the bulk of Portuguese trade in South-East Asia.
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods
Followed by The Weather
(Colour)
by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln
Starring Marius Goring
with Ann Morrish
and Victor Winding
Guest stars, Catherine Lacey, Maxwell Shaw, Geoffrey Chater
Estate Duties - a curse to be avoided? When a businessman is found drowned it could mean ruin for his family.
(Colour)
Recipes demonstrated in these prop-ammes 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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'We are so much accustomed to the humanitarian outlook that we forget how little it counted in earlier ages of civilisation. Ask any decent person in England or America what he thinks matters most in human conduct-five to one his answer will be "kindness." It's not a word that would have crossed the lips of any of the earlier heroes of this series.'
In this the final programme, Sir Kenneth Clark shows how the heroic materialism of the past hundred' years has been linked with an equally remarkable increase in humanitarianism. The achievement of engineers and scientists has been matched by that of the great reformers. Sir Kenneth Clark 's thoughts on the period in which we are now living take him from the English industrial landscape of the nineteenth century to the skyscrapers of contemporary New York, the world of the radio telescope and the exploration of space.
Shown on Sunday
The narrative of this programme will be printed in 'The Listener' of May 22
A book of the series will be published later in the year by BBC Publications and John Murray
See page 30
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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 Ingrid Bergman, Mel Ferrer, Jean Marais
An emigree Polish princess, tired of inspiring and influencing the famous, sets off in pursuit of an ideal partner.
Renoir had always wanted to make 'something gay' with Bergman, and it's said that before he made this film he took her to all the comedies playing in Paris so that she could learn to laugh. This is Renoir at his most free and effervescent. It's gay but sarcastic.
(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)
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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
(Colour)
