A programme for children at home.
(to 11.30)

7.30 Growth and Play: 5: How to Form a Playgroup
A series of ten programmes.
Many parents are meeting the shortage of Nursery Schools by getting together to form Playgroups, run as far as possible in accordance with professional standards. This programme gives practical advice on organisation, equipment, and materials.
Audrey Calveley, Phyllis Lloyd
Introduced by Tony Gibson.
First transmission on BBC 1, May 3. 1964

8.0 Steel: 5: Forging
Written and produced by Peter Bennet Stone.
A series of ten programmes.
The blacksmith's skill, the art of forging, is dying at last; the judgment of hand and eye is giving way to automation. This programme looks at the most recent advances in forging technique.
Introduced by Franklin Engelmann, Jack Ashley.

8.30 Fothergale Co. Ltd.: 9: Taking Stock
The last in the present series of programmes showing how modern economic ideas and techniques can be applied to industrial and business management.
Introduced by Ronald Brech.
In tonight's programme a group of businessmen, who have been taking courses in Management at different colleges of Further Education, come into the studio to discuss the programmes and the economic ideas they have covered.
A further series of Fothergale programmes begins on April 27

9.0 The Arab World: 3: Arab Civilisation
Ninety million people in search of a future.
A series of eight programmes outlining historical and other factors affecting their choice.
A tenth-century Arabic writer described the people of the North as 'uncivilised,... their bodies are large, their nature gross, their manners harsh, their understanding dull, and their tongues heavy'. With three centuries of the rich Islamic civilisation behind him, perhaps his superior attitude was justified.

[Starring] Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll
with Akim Tamiroff, William Frawley

Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests.