A programme for children at home.

(to 11.25)

A film series.
This week: Arnold Palmer and Gary Player v. Jack Nicklaus and Phil Rodgers
played at the Los Angeles Country club, California.

by James O'Connor.

with Tony Selby as Danny
and including Rita Webb as Britannia, Glynn Edwards as Prisoner Officer Johnson, George Sewell as Johnny May

"In every way an extraordinary play... the strongest, grimmest, pro-for being insipid"
(Daily Sketch)
"The play achieved the shattering effect at which it aimed" (The Times)
"...glittered with comedy and tears, compassion and careful anger .. had me nearer to tears than anything I've seen for a long time" (Daily Mirror)
"O'Connor's underworld dialogue is the most authentic in the business" (The Observer)
(First shown on BBC-1)

Three Clear Sundays, which is about the events that lead a young man into the condemned cell convicted of capital murder, is in a very real sense the life of its author - he calls it his 'emotional autobiography'. James O'Connor thought about the play from the time he was reprieved from the condemned cell all through ten years on Dartmoor; and when he came to write it he poured all of himself into it. But although it is the story of a man who has suffered and feels outrage, it is compassionate, and even humorous.

Elizabethan Music from Hatfield House.
with Julian Bream (lute), Valda Aveling (virginals), Robert Spencer (voice and lute),
The Ambrosian Consort
Patricia Clark (soprano), Jean Allister (contralto), Edgar Fleet (tenor), John McCarthy (tenor), Christopher Keyte (bass)

At Hatfield House Queen Elizabeth I learned of her accession to the throne. Here, in the home of the Cecil family, are the virginals on which the Queen is said to have played: they are heard in this programme.

followed by The Weather

Ian Trethowan looks back over the past week in Parliament and introduces reports on big debates in both Houses, questions to Ministers, significant moves behind the scenes, and the effects of M.P.s' work inside and outside Westminster.
with the BBC's Parliamentary and Political News Staff.

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