6.5 Maths Models and Methods
6.30 Housing in Birmingham: 2
6.55 Images: Viewing the Invisible
7.20 Organic Chemistry: AzoDyes
7.45 Drinking Behaviour in Animals
11.22 Subtitle Slot with subtitles for hearing-impaired children
Going to Work
Overcoming Handicaps
11.42 Pages from Ceefax
2.1 Scene. Access to TV
A programme made by teenagers young people in Wakefield talk about living in care, and pupils from Twyford High School, London, examine graffiti.
The Lawn Tennis Championships featuring the semi-finals of the Men's Singles
Commentators
DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT
GERALD WILLIAMS , BARRY DAVIES
MARK COX, BILL THRELFALL
ANN JONES and VIRGINIA WADE
with subtitles, followed by Weather
A 13-part personal history of the United States written and narrated by Alistair Cooke ,
11: The Promise Fulfilled and the Promise Broken
Alistair Cooke journeys from the era of wonderful nonsense to the depression.
The British, or at least the English, have always taken a supercilious we know best' attitude. Cooke takes that same overbearing and omniscient attitude. It mars a series that would otherwise be superlative.
(WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, GAZETTE)
'America' has substance, the weight of research and thought, and it has a point of view It is history masterfully related. And it is excellent television. (SAN DIEGO UNION) Cooke doesn't have any personal viewpoint or any personal vision. (TIME OUT) Directed by DAVID HEYCOCK
Produced by MICHAEL gill
from the Midlands
Roses conjure up an image of typical English cottage gardens in high summer. But in tonight s programme Geoff Hamilton and rose breeder David Austin visit two of the Midlands' most unusual gardens.
In the industrial village of Pinxton, Viola Barrett has filled her garden with all types of species and hybrid roses, creating a living history of their development while at Portmeirion Potteries in Stoke, Susan Williams-Ellis has planted many new and unusual varieties of roses around the factory, producing recreational areas for the staff and providing inspiration for the paintings she creates for this famous pottery.
BBC Pebble Mill
starring
I'll be Loving You, Sometimes
Rhoda's up-to-now rather smooth romance with Joe gets a little bumpy when he decides on a cooling-off period. So Rhoda arranges a date with Mr Grime !
Written by NORMAN BARASCH , CARROLL MOORE Directed by ALAN RAFKIN
The second in a series about six remarkable women, all born around 1900, in an age when it was difficult for them to fulfil their talents.
Naomi Mitchison interviewed by Leonie Caldecott
Naomi Mitchison has written over 80 books, as well as poems, plays and articles. Her literary output has been phenomenal, and controversial. In the 30s and 40s she was well ahead of her time, writing from the women's point of view about life and love. She was involved in the early struggle for birth control. She has also been a farmer who only gave up driving a tractor when she was 80, and owns a Scottish fishing trawler.
Naomi Mitchison is the mother of five and is also honorary mother of an African tribe which she visits every year. She talks about her full life.
(Subtitles on Ceefax page 270)
Tonight, celebrating its 100th television appearance, the popular musical challenge features regular contestants Frank Muir , John Amis
Ian Wallace and Denis Norden under the musical chairmanship of Steve Race
Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPE
Presented by John Tusa , Peter Snow , Donald MacCormick , Olivia O'Leary
King Nine will not Return starring
What has happened to Captain Embry's crew when his plane crashlands in the desert - and is he so lucky to have survived?