"When Willy Went to the Wedding" written and illustrated by Judith Kerr
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
When Angela Reynolds left school she wanted 'to work with babies.' Instead she went to work at the mill. Why?
with John Edmunds; Weather
Joan Bakewell talks with Lady Dowding
As a little girl of 8, Lady Dowding dreamed that one day she would marry a man called Hugh, and in 1951 she did: Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding of Battle of Britain fame. He arrived at her Tunbridge Wells home, 'with a trunk, a desk and a chair.' Under her influence he became a vegetarian, never wore leather or fur and developed a great love of animals.
Some of those who were closely associated with the growth of Radio and Television since 1922 talk to David Franklin about the pioneering days of music broadcasting
Taking part: Philip Bate, Sir Arthur Bliss, CH, KCVO, Sir Adrian Boult, CH, D.Mus, Maurice Cole, Sidonie Goossens, Harry Mortimer, OBE, Eric Robinson, OBE, Stanford Robinson, OBE, Kenneth Wright, OBE with film and TV excerpts from 1922-1972
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: What Shall We Do With Granny?: Part 2
Do we care for our parents as well in old age as they did for us as children?
When grandparents get too old to look after themselves they can become an intolerable strain on the family. Yet the alternative, an old people's home, may seem callous and cruel.
Last week Man Alive looked at the problems for elderly relatives and their families. This week Desmond Wilcox looks for some of the answers.
A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
(Also on BBC1)
Basil Taylor looks at the work of artists who portrayed the monuments and antiquities of Britain and gave posterity a sensitive record of English architecture.
The last of three films starring Will Hay
with Graham Moffatt and Moore Marriott
By mistake, headmaster Will Hay is appointed governor of one of the toughest prisons in England. With boundless but misdirected enthusiasm he sets about a programme of reform.
(This Week's Films: page 11)
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