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Some fishes are able to glide through the air, but only three groups of animal have true organs of flight-birds, bats, and insects. John Barlee deals today chiefly with birds and illustrates various methods of flight by film he has taken himself.
(BBC recording of the programme first shown on March 9)
(to 11.45)
Contributors
Presenter:
John
Barlee
Producer:
F. R.
Elwell
Bwrw golwg dros bynciau'r dydd mewn sgwrs a ffilm-a chyfle i gwrdd a rhai sy'n amlwg yn y newyddion.
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.30)
Introduced by Donald Holms.
John West, the ship designer, and Sir Hugh Casson, the architect, tell us about their work together on the new liner, Canberra.
Contributors
Presenter:
Donald
Holms
Guest:
John
West
Guest:
Sir Hugh
Casson
Presented by:
Peter
Scroggs
For the Very Young
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
(BBC film)
(to 14.45)
Contributors
Puppeteer:
Audrey
Atterbury
Puppeteer:
Molly
Gibson
Voices:
Eileen
Browne
Voices:
Josefina
Ray
Voices:
Peter
Hawkins
Script and music:
Maria
Bird
Shirley Abicair who tells a story of Tumbarumba
Contributors
Storyteller:
Shirley
Abicair
Presented by:
John Hunter
Blair
A serial in six episodes by R.F. Delderfield.
With Peter Wyngarde, John Moffatt, Rupert Davies
(BBC recording of the broadcast on June 29, 1958)
Contributors
Author/Adapted by:
R.F.
Delderfield
Producer:
Desmond
O'Donovan
Guitarist:
Alberto
Velez
Fights arranged by:
Terry
Baker
Film Cameraman:
David
Prosser
Film Editor:
Ron de
Mattos
Designer:
Frederick
Knapman
John Silver:
Peter
Wyngarde
Gabriel Pew:
Nigel
Arkwright
Black Dog:
Gertan
Klauber
Captain Flint:
Rupert
Davies
Darby Magraw:
Michael
Corcoran
Ben Gunn:
John
Moffatt
Jabez Patmore:
Gordon
Gostelow
Billy Bones:
Olaf
Pooley
Israel Hands:
Sean
Lynch
Tom Morgan:
Neil
Hallett
Anderson:
Rodney
Burke
Davis:
Terry
Baker
Dolores:
Margarita
Old Ben Gunn:
Meadows
White
Jim Hawkins:
John H.
Watson
Seaman:
Alastair
Hunter
Patrick Moore tells you about this month's main astronomical events. There is to be an eclipse of the Moon, and this week the little planet Mercury will be easy to see in the evening sky.
Ramon Lane, a young Northumbrian astronomer, shows a film of his own observatory; he explains how he built it, and describes how he uses his telescope to study celestial objects and to photograph them.
Contributors
Presenter:
Patrick
Moore
Guest:
Ramon
Lane
Presented by:
Graham
Gauld
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20
Preparing for the new season's Vegetables planting Asparagus, Exhibition Leeks, Parsnips, Carrots, and Beet
Percy Thrower introduces Harold Fowles, Professional foreman gardener and Ronald W. Sidwell, Horticulturist from the Vale of Evesham.
From the BBC's Midland television studio
Contributors
Presenter:
Percy
Thrower
Guest:
Harold
Fowles
Guest:
Ronald W.
Sidwell
Presented by:
Paul
Morby
Look around with Cliff Michelmore.
Sport-Music-People
Cinema-Theatre-Argument
with Derek Hart, Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week, Noel Harrison
Contributors
Presenter:
Cliff
Michelmore
Reporter:
Derek
Hart
Reporter:
Geoffrey Johnson
Smith
Singer/guitarist:
Noel
Harrison
Producer:
Donald
Baverstock
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton.
[Starring] Tony Hancock
featuring Sidney James
with John Vere, Hugh Lloyd, Mario Fabrizi, Laurie Webb, Graham Leaman, Arthur Mullard
Contributors
Writer:
Alan
Simpson
Writer:
Ray
Galton
Incidental music composed and Orchestra conducted by:
Wally
Stott
Producer:
Duncan
Wood
Anthony Aloysius Hancock:
Tony
Hancock
Sidney Balmoral James:
Sidney
James
Man from the Ministry:
John
Vere
Council official:
Hugh
Lloyd
Professional Marcher:
Mario
Fabrizi
2nd Workman:
Laurie
Webb
[Actor]:
Graham
Leaman
Workman:
Arthur
Mullard
In tonight's recording Perry Como welcomes Star Guests and The Mitchell Ayres Orchestra, The Ray Charles Singers, The Louis Da Pron Dancers.
Written by Goodman Ace, Morton Green and George Foster and Jay Burton.
Contributors
Presenter/singer:
Perry
Como
Musicians:
The Mitchell Ayres
Orchestra
Singers:
The Ray Charles
Singers
Dancers:
The Louis Da Pron
Dancers
Producer for NBC:
Clark
Jones
Writer:
Goodman
Ace
Writer:
Morton
Green
Writer:
George
Foster
Writer:
Jay
Burton
Edited for BBC television by:
Philip
Barker
Film editor:
Richard
Barclay
A film series.
True stories of the American West.
A prospector and his wife take a short cut across the desert in search of the rich goldfields that lie beyond. This means exposure to all the dangers and horrors of what was later to become known as 'Death Valley'.
A series of wild-life programmes.
Introduced by Peter Scott.
The fascinating homes which bees, beetles, wasps, and termites build for themselves are shown in two remarkable films from Hungary and France.
(BBC recording)
See page 4
Contributors
Presenter:
Peter
Scott
Guest speaker:
J. D. Carthy,
Ph.D.
Editor:
John
Merritt
Producer:
Nicholas
Crocker
The week's business in Parliament is over. Tonight two M.P.s face a group of their constituents in the Pavilion, Keswick.
Fred Peart M.P., Member (Labour) for Workington and William Whitelaw M.P. M.C.,
Member (Conservative) for Penrith and the Border.
In the chair, Kenneth Harris who calls for questions from the floor.
Contributors
Panellist:
Fred
Peart
Panellist:
William
Whitelaw
Chairman:
Kenneth
Harris
Presented by:
Stanley
Hyland
The Final of the Men's Doubles Championship
Direct from the Queen's Club, London.
(The Men's Singles Final will be televised tomorrow in Evening Grandstand)
Contributors
Commentator:
Dan
Maskell
followed by Weather and Close Down