Story: "Hiccups" by Malcolm Carrick
(Repeated today on BBC2 at 3.45)
(Colour)
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Story: "Hiccups" by Malcolm Carrick
(Repeated today on BBC2 at 3.45)
(Colour)
Sledge-dogs were fierce, but wolves were even fiercer, so when a boy living in the snows of Northern Siberia made a pet of a wolf-cub, the villagers became suspicious
A film starring Leslie Howard, David Niven
with Rosamund John
The story of aircraft-designer R.J. Mitchell whose inspired determination gave Britain World War II's most formidable fighter - the Spitfire - just in time to meet the enemy onslaught.
Scenes from an Elizabethan life by Alison Plowden
Book 70p: see page 66
For this highly original production from Australia cartoonist Bruce Petty created an incredible assembly of wheels, cogs, pulleys and string on which the money game is played with all the fervour and drama of a major sporting event.
See the amazing economics machine in action as six contestants battle for the championship - no holds barred. And remember it's the same game in which we are all involved!
An Australian Broadcasting Commission production
with Percy Thrower from Clacks Farm, Worcestershire
Sowing peas and other crops for succession; in the greenhouse, sowing runner beans.
(from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Tuesday afternoon, BBC1)
featuring The Mansudai Dance Company
An artistic entertainment by a skilful and dedicated troupe from Pyongyang, the capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. These artists perform for the first time in England a colourful programme of exotic dances, acrobatics and comedy.
Introduced by Philip Oakes
Televised by arrangement with Victor Hochhauser Ltd
(Colour)
told by Malcolm Muggeridge
She carried the Red Flag at miners' parades while a teacher at a girls' school; associated with Trotskyites; fought in the Spanish Civil War. Yet T.S. Eliot, Gide, Camus and Iris Murdoch agree that her book "Waiting on God" is a spiritual classic.
In Holy Week 1938 Christ entered her being once and for all. But she refused to join the Church and thus, as Gide put it, became the patron saint of all outsiders. This young Frenchwoman died in England 30 years ago, and is buried in a pauper's grave.
Among those taking part:
Andre Weil, her brother, a leading mathematician
Jacques Soustelle, politician and one-time associate of De Gaulle
(Colour)
Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Eva Marie Saint
with Charles Bronson, Robert Webber
Dr Edward Hewitt is the respected principal of a small private school. But his passionate affair with the beautiful and unconventional Laura Reynolds threatens to destroy his career - and his marriage.