Today's story is 'Lucy and Tom's Day' by Shirley Hughes
A monthly series of programmes for doctors
The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People
by Professor George Porter
The earth, whose rotation we use to divide our time into days, is not a very accurate timekeeper. The smaller things are, the faster they move, or oscillate, and the shorter the intervals of time they tick away. We can use atoms to make clocks which are accurate to less than a second in a thousand years, but we can also demonstrate some remarkably accurate chemical and biological clocks.
(Fourth lecture: Wednesday. 6.30 pm)
Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woodswith Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Michael Sullivan,
David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and Weather
by Jan Read
[Starring] Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Gambon, Edith MacArthur
The Laird of Cocklaws defends his castle against an English force. Gavin Ker supports him, but knows full well that Cocklaws's motives are as big a sham as the attack itself.
Guest stars Roddy McMillan, John Harvey, Hilda Braid
(Colour)
A new quiz series
This week: Journalism
John Tusa asks Bernard Levin, Rene Cutforth, Dame Joan Vickers MP for facts and opinions about The Press
Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past ten years from the movie capital stars Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin
La dolce vita was never sweeter than for Rock Hudson, as a wealthy industrialist holidaying at his Italian villa with playmate Gina Lollobrigida. But he arrives three months early to find his villa operating as a hotel, and himself the unwilling host to a party of tourists.
Tonight's film was made by Universal-International in 1961 on location in Italy. It marked Bobby Darin's screen debut.
Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow,
Sheridan Morley
by James Elroy Flecker
adapted for television by Rex Tucker from the stage version by Basil Dean
[starring] Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud
with Nyree Dawn Porter, Corin Redgrave, Anthony Ainley
(An Eastern spectacular: page 13)
