Today's story is "The Scribble" by Phyllis Jowitt

An investigation of transport today and in the next ten years.

For 80 years engineers have been devising novel means of moving people. Although Paris had a moving pavement in 1900, such ideas have never been taken seriously by city planners. There is some reason to believe opinion is changing.

"Next to God, Shakespeare has created most" - (Balzac)

William Shakespeare was born 407 years ago today in Stratford-upon-Avon, and died there on the same day 52 years later.
This film goes behind the scenes of the RSC in Stratford to watch the various stages of a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. It also explores Shakespeare's life and writings against the setting of Stratford and the Warwickshire countryside.

With John Barton, Christopher Gable, Roger Howells, Ben Kingsley, Estelle Kohler, Christopher Morley, Trevor Nunn, Ian Richardson, Barry Stanton
Written and directed by Lorna Pegram
A BBC Tv/Patria Pictures co-production
(Radio Times People: page 5)

An evening at Wilton's Music-Hall, Grace's Alley, Wellclose Square, London, 1860
starring Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Keith Michell, Pat Kirkwood, Warren Mitchell, Ronnie Barker, Bill Fraser, Gina Astralita, Eric Robinson
Introduced by Billy Russell.

Wilton's Music-Hall in the East End of London has survived against all the odds and, though now standing empty, represents the only unaltered music-hall of its type in the country. Tonight the gas lamps are lighted once again, the audience take their places, and the warmth and gaiety of the 'Wilton's' of 100 years ago comes to the screen.

Looking at the problem of Venereal Diseases.

The World as seen through European Eyes
Introduced by Derek Hart

with Nicholas Johnson, Commissioner of US Federal Communications Commission