A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'The Steeplejack' by Molly Cox
(Colour)
(to 11.20)
Ten programmes about Europe's discovery of the outside world
In the hundred years after the conquest, towns and churches spread all over the Spanish colonies in Central and South America. The English made several unsuccessful attempts at colonisation before they took root farther north.
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods
Followed by The Weather
(Colour)
by N.J. Crisp
Starring Marius Goring
with Ann Morrish
and Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth, Valerie Murray
Guest stars, Michael Gwynn, Glyn Houston, Stella Tanner
That little Lucille died a violent death was certain; how she died was more obscure. Dr. Hardy's painstaking research and insistence on accuracy finally establishes the truth But sometimes emotions are stronger than scientific evidence the unreasoning heart of man overrules his head.
(Colour)
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)
The series in which famous sports stars tell their own stories and express their own opinions against the backcloth of their own exciting action
For more than ten years Henry Cooper has been British heavyweight champion. He also holds the Commonwealth and European titles. Tonight Roar of the Crowd presents a study of Cooper as he trains for and fights his fifty-second contest: a man still with ambitions at thirty-five, undergoing the grind of training, refuting those who feel he should retire...
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Among those appearing:
Jim Wicks, Manager
Danny Holland, Trainer and 'cuts' man
Mrs. Albina Cooper The champion's wife
and Harry Carpenter, BBC Boxing Correspondent
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(Colour)
A series of personal choices of prose and poetry with John Neville
Given before an invited audience at the Collegiate Theatre, London
(Colour)
(Colour)
The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)