Story: "The Quentin Blake Bird" by Joanne Cole
Illustrated by Quentin Blake
A series of ten programmes
Insects have no internal skeleton. They have hard bodies with soft centres. Although not growing large, they are extraordinarily numerous: four out of five known species are insects.
Introduced by Tony Soper with Professor John Currey
(From Bristol: first shown on BBC1)
Weather
from The Magnolias, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Percy Thrower deals with seasonal work in the greenhouse; storing geraniums for the winter; planting of lilies; and he shows how we can make the most of the last flowers from the garden for decoration in the house.
(from Birmingham)
Everybody does, of course, one way or another. The bill for education makes up almost half the local rates bill and a good proportion of our income tax. But others, the parents of half-a-million children, also pay up to £1,000 a head each year to have their children educated privately. The Money Programme looks at the shape of the private education business, explains how parents - and some private schools - pay less by tax-avoidance devices, and asks, do they get better value for their money?
David Taylor goes to Lancing College, and other private schools, to see how they manage their affairs.
Presented by Brian Widlake
with Paul Griffiths and Robert McKenzie
Starring Douglas Fairbanks
with Marguerite de la Motte, Noah Beery, Robert McKim
In 19th-century Spanish California, the many wrongs of the despotic Governor are righted by the mysterious masked avenger Zorro who leaves his famous mark on all his defeated opponents.
In his first costume picture, Douglas Fairbanks established the movie character in which he was to become a legend-that of the gay daredevil adventurer whose flamboyant swashbuckling charmed a generation.
Barry Askew introduces a look at the stories, the issues and the people from the world of information, comment and opinion.
Will newspapers become redundant?
Short of money, short of newsprint, short of readers; yet Fleet Street still prints, like Caxton, with ink on paper. Can technology change that? Ian Breach reports.
with Peter Woods; Weather
