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)
Today's programme deals with three islands: Barbados, the first place in the Commonwealth in which sugar cane was planted; Grenada, the 'Spice Island' of the West; and St. Vincent, the home of arrowroot and the best Sea Island cotton.
Introduced by George Lamming.
For the Very Young
Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your children and invites them to join in songs and games.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
(A BBC television film)
Family Affairs
Family Pastimes: 2: Water Sports
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Caldecott and their son Barrie offer practical tips on how to enjoy swimming, under-water swimming, and water-ski-ing.
Pram Parade
Edrlysi Roberts looks at some prams of the past, and reviews the prams of today.
National Birthday Trust Fund
Lady Rhys-Williams, D.B.E., the Chairman, reports on the progress of an investigation into the welfare of mothers and babies at birth.
Introduced by Betty Lait.
3.15 Report from Paris
Wynford Vaughan Thomas in London talks with friends in the Radiodiffusion Television Francaise studio in Paris.
(to 15.30)
by Frank Richards.
(This episode was originally broadcast on August 3, 1957)
A series of three programmes introduced by Gerald Durrell.
Last year Gerald Durrell and his wife explored the British Cameroons in search of 'beef'- West African wild-life. In this series they show some of the animals they found, and viewers meet Cholmondeley, the chimpanzee they brought back from Africa with them.
(Previously televised on April 2)
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.10 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.15-6.20
Thomas Mitchell plays the part of the famous American author in the film series based on his short stories
About a cowboy with a conscience, who believes that the only way to keep out of trouble is not to wear a gun.
Look around with Derek Hart.
Sport-Music-People
Cinema-Theatre-Argument
with Geoffrey Johnson Smith and this week: Lucille Mapp, Noel Harrison
Written by Sidney Nelson and Maurice Harrison
[Starring] Charlie Chester as Educated Evans, the famous character created by Edgar Wallace.
[Starring] Kenneth McKellar with his guest: Patricia Bredin and the BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Jack Leon
From the BBC's television studio in Scotland
A new comedy by Peter Coke
Televised direct from the Cambridge Theatre, London, by arrangement with Michael Codron in association with Allan Davis, Ltd
by Arthur Hailey.
The play is set in Canada at the present time.
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A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party
The Rt. Hon. Hugh Gaitskell, C.B.E., M.P.
Alan Birch, F.C.I.S. Chairman, Economic Committee of the T.U.C.
Frank Cousins, General Secretary, Transport and General Workers' Union
discuss some of the problems affecting the British economy both now and in the future.
How evolution looks today, a hundred years after Darwin.
Speakers in the programme include:
L. Harrison Matthews, Sc.D., F.R.S., Professor Sir Solly Zuckerman, C.B., M.D., D.Sc., F.B.S., Dr. H.B.D. Kettlewell, M.A., M.B.
The series introduced by William van Essen.
Film by Macqueen Film Organisation
The second of a series of six weekly programmes
followed by Weather and Close Down