Starring Glenn Ford, Valli, Claude Rains with Oscar Homolka, Cedric Hardwicke, Lloyd Bridges

Six climbers, six lives - and six different reasons for climbing the treacherous Alpine peak.
Filmed largely on location in the Alps, The White Tower is regarded as the definitive mountain movie.
Glenn Ford turns in a quietly remarkable performance as an American schoolteacher who is persuaded to join a hazardous expedition led by Carla Alten (played by the Italian actress Alida Valli, who then liked to be billed simply as 'Valli'.)
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followed by Weather
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Percy Thrower returns to Nether Winchendon House in Buckinghamshire, to the south gardens running down to the river Thame
(from BBC Midlands)
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by Nikos Kazantzakis
Dramatised in six parts by Jack Pulman

Pope Fotis and Manolios have been branded as Bolsheviks by the Bishop. They decided that the only course left open to them was to seize their property by force
(Repeated Wednesday, 10.40 pm)
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In James Cameron's own series of documentary films...
'It seems like a century ago, but it is in fact two years, when Israel seemed the most vulnerable place on earth. I was here when the Israelis heard they had won. Now here I am again on... The 730th Day of the Six-Day War
For tonight's exciting film James Cameron returns to Israel on the second anniversary of the June war. He retraces the lightning advance of the Israeli army, and finds the people filled with doubts but determined to survive

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Players: Rob Buckman, Dai Davies, Adrian Edwards, Bill Gutteridge, Robert Orledge, Maggie Scott, Ian Taylor
Writers: All the above and Clive James and David Turner
(from BBC Midlands: recorded at the Studio Theatre, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham)
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Gerald Harrison talks to boys and girls at Brighton and Maidenhead.

"My Dad tells jokes that anyone could tell, but he tells them the worst of the lot" (8-year-old girl)
"I put my tape recorder outside the bedroom when my Mum and Dad were quarrelling - Mum found it quite a giggle!" (10-year-old-boy)
(from BBC North)
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A schoolboy's vision of life seen from the cloister of a public boarding school is the subject of this week's edition of the new weekly arts magazine presented by James Mossman
Tim King, who was 16 1/2 when he made this film, today received the first prize in the Movie Maker Ten Best Amateur Films of the Year Competition
Review shows the winning film. In the studio, Tim King, a dozen sixth-formers, and Lindsay Anderson, who directed If...

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with P. J. Kavanagh who takes a personal look back at television programmes and issues of the past seven days
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Starring Robert Newton, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Emlyn Williams
with Enid Stamp Taylor

An ambitious shopkeeper in a small Scottish town causes his family suffering and disgrace