A programme for children at home.
In the story chair, Brian Wildsmith

As this is Bank Holiday week and the end of the summer holidays, Play School is featuring seashells of all kinds and showing different games that can be played with them.
Brian Wildsmith is in the story chair again talking about animal pictures of long ago-the Lascaux cave paintings-and works by Pisanello and Rousseau. There will be another dip into the picture book 'This Is London', exploring the Cockney world within the sound of Bow Bells rather than the grander landmarks of the conventional tour.
(to 11.25)

Fourth day's play at The Oval.
On BBC-1 from 6.5
(to 18.05)

with The Three Bells, The Beat Girls, Rog Whittaker and guest artists.

Isobel Barnett and Eleanor Summerfield compete with Richard Murdoch and Lance Percival under the eye of Peter Haigh.

Tales from the last frontier of the great American West.
Starring James Drury as The Virginian

The trouble caused by the action of a ten-year-old orphan in adopting Trampas as his war-hero father is doubled when his real father-an ex-outlaw-turns up.

A serial in six parts by Duncan Ross.
Starring William Franklyn and Lana Morris
with Cyril Luckham
and Caroline Blakiston

By spying on his own fiancee Ian finds himself a pawn in Gage's chess game.
(First shown on BBC-1)

A documentary film produced for N.B.C. News.
The treasures and the history of the world's most famous museum and art collection introduced by Charles Boyer.
See page 21

followed by The Weather

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