Make Yourself at Home

Introduced by Saleem Shahed
including

Wah Re Bhole: Bhola and his daughter-in-law face life in a new land
with K.C. Gould and Lalita Ahmed

Once Upon a Time: A story for mothers and children at home

(from BBC Midlands)

12.50 Interval

Discs and talents of young people

1.25 Interval

For the very young
Pippin and Tog watch the farmers through the hedge.

1.53 Interval

For teachers, parents and older children, this series previews some of the documentary programmes for Secondary Schools which will be transmitted in the next school year.

1.55 Scene: What it Means to be Old
A programme from the Humanities series for 14-16-year-olds, designed to make pupils think and talk. The series returns in the autumn term.

2.20* Going to Work: Assembly Line
From the careers series for young school leavers, this film is concerned with work in a large cycle factory.

2.40* New Horizons: Monkeys, Apes and Men: The Singular Ape
One of a group of programmes for students of 16-18 which examines the affinities between man and other primates.
Introduced by Caroline Medawar

A programme for children under 5

by Norman Hunter
With George Benson

Today: The King with the Paper Face

A German version of the story by Hans Christian Andersen

The soldier sets about rescuing the Princess with the aid of the three magic dogs.
Story told by Leigh Crutchley

Introduced by Norman Tozer with Jan Leeming and John Earle
People, places, events, ideas, and inventions

Tom Tom starts April with an odd mixture of Volcanoes... lions... magnets... skiing...
(From BBC South and West)

The varied adventures of Hector the Dog and Zaza the Cat, not forgetting Mrs Kiki Frog.

The facts, the people, the background of the nation's capital

Nationwide
The news, features, opinions of the country at large, co-ordinated by Michael Barratt from BBC studios throughout the UK.

Written by Christopher Bond
Starring John Barrie, Richard Leech, Barry Justice with Irene Hamilton

Dr Conrad goes out on an emergency call. Edmund redeems himself and probably saves a life. Dr Somers receives grave news concerning Nella.

Introduced by Raymond Baxter with James Burke

by Alan Melville
Starring Julian Orchard as Rupert Haliburton
with Vivienne Bennett as Miss Barnett, Ballard Berkeley as Col. Satchwell-Simpson, Janie Booth as Bessie, Lally Bowers as Daphne Delaney, Joyce Cary as Lady Henderson, Judith Furse as Muriel Crump, Colin Gordon as Arthur Plenderleith, Deryck Guyler as Mr Benson, Patricia Hayes as Miss Batchelor, John Le Mesurier as Mr Prentice, Tony Sympson as Thatcher

(Tony Sympson is in "Fiddler on the Roof" at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds.
(by arrangement with Stanley and Michael Joseph)
Presenting Danny La Rue, Show Business Personality of the Year
and Cheryl Kennedy, Ken Wilson, Les Samourai, Ken Goodwin, The Keeners and David Ellen, George Giles
Chairman Leonard Sachs

With Richard Baker and Weather

by Alan Plater
[Starring] Nigel Davenport as Donkin, Norman Rodway as Murphy, Stephanie Bidmead as Mrs Mellish, Fiona Walker as Susan, John Bryans as Mr Mellish, Jill Melford as Mrs Donkin
(First shown on BBC2)
(Norman Rodway is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

"It was the sheer fluency and ease of the writing that struck me most about
'The Curse of The Donkins'... Mr Plater gave us an extremely entertaining and swift-flowing 75 minutes." - Michael Billington (The Times)

A daily look at what matters in the news and out of it
Presented all this week by David Dimbleby with the latest news in pictures

John Updike, the American writer, talks to Melvyn Bragg about life in a small American town, and how it has influenced his work.
John Updike's novels are rooted in two small towns: Shillington, Pennsylvania, which was his childhood home and the basis of his first four novels; and Ipswich, Mass, which provided the background for his last book, the best-selling "Couples", and where he now lives.