Story: "The Little Cat That Could Not Sleep" by Frances Margaret Fox
Illustrated by Shirley Hughes
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
(to 19.00)
with Peter Woods
Weather
Written by Correlli Barnett
The story of restless man: early Britons roaming the country with their flocks; the marching Roman Legions; the Englishman on his horse, in his stagecoach, in his barge; on his train, in his car, and now in his aircraft - always striving to travel farther, faster. Correlli Barnett looks from the air at what we've gained and what we've lost in our search for speed.
"So enthralling that I grudged the time I had to waste in blinking" (Daily Mail)
A series of six films which concentrate on a few hours of intense activity.
What more is there to a launching than a broken bottle of champagne and a ship sliding down the slipway?
This film documents the day that Texaco Great Britain, a 252,000-ton super-tanker over a quarter of a mile long, was to be launched into the River Tyne.
From dawn until 3.30 pm on 26 March this year, eight camera teams watched the preparations essential to a great ship being launched: they show how the people involved are caught up in the tension and atmosphere of an important event.
(Colour)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
adapted for television by Martin Starkie and Nevill Coghill
(Colour)
Johnny Morris visits some of the islands in the Pacific Ocean
"A life of perpetual picnic, in a landscape that lulls you almost to a stupor. Nature does the work. you sit back and let it."
After experiencing the tail of a hurricane when he first arrives, Johnny tours the island, watches village women beating tapa (a cloth made from the bark of the mulberry tree), sees the royal fruit bats (flying foxes), and enjoys a feast - "an authentic Tongan Sunday lunch" - on the edge of the lagoon.
(From Bristol)
A singer and his songs
Andy Roberts sings 'Radio Lady,' 'Just for the record,' an extract from 'Dream Tree Sequence'
