A programme for children at home
Today's story: "Albert the Dragon"
Written and illustrated by Quentin Blake
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(to 11.20)
Five programmes on the problems of the mid-life period
How do our abilities change with age? What do middle-aged and older people do well, and what do they do badly? When are people at their most creative?
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.
Followed by The Weather
(Colour)
A duel of words and wit between
The Resident Gentlemen
Kenneth Williams, Denis Norden, Michael Trubshaweand The Challenging Ladies
Drusilla Beyfus, Maggie Fitzgibbon, Jacki PiperReferee, Robert Robinson
(Colour)
Introduced by Brian Widlake and John Tusa
Including
The U.S. Bank Invasion
Have you thought of moving your account to an American bank?
As each month goes by more of .them are opening in Britain.
What have they got to offer you? Why are they breaking into the British bank scene?
Peter Ross reports.
(Colour)
by Robert Furnival
with Francis Matthews as Dr. Andrew Seth and Janet Chappell as Lucy Mallow
A survey recently carried out for a town in the Home Counties discovered that one in ten of its population was a mental patient, who although not in need of admittance to hospital nevertheless required treatment of some kind. This startling fact is highlighted by tonight's play about Lucy Mallow, a young girl who is mentally disturbed. She is a borderline case; ill enough for regular treatment but not for hospitalisation. Today she is to meet Dr. Seth, an overworked psychiatrist, who is to see how Lucy is getting on. Viewers are also invited to attend this interview which is to have far-reaching effects on the girl's future.
(Colour)
Horizon - Man and Science Today
Most great scientific discoveries of the past have been made by someone having the luck to observe some process in nature and then realising its wider implications. Newton and Watt are obvious examples. Today the starting point of any discovery remains the observation of nature to see how It works, and with sophisticated instruments volumes are added daily to our store of knowledge. This sort of work, pure science, is engaging thousands of scientists in this country, and the observations they are making today dictate the technological changes of the future.
Tonight's programme reviews progress being made in just a few of the laboratories where work has been going on during 1969 in astronomy, biology, botany, and meteorology. It looks at some of the men whose fundamental experiments might today be only part completed or improperly understood but which in the future we might choose to call significant 'discoveries.'
(Colour)
by Compton MacKenzie
A second chance to see this dramatisation in six parts by Ray Lawler
Michael has learnt that Lord Saxby, who has just died, was his father. Meanwhile he and Alan are making preparations prior to going up to Oxford.
(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)
