A programme for children at home.
In the story chair, Ronald Eyre
(to 11.25)

A thriller serial in five parts by Michael Gilbert.
Security Executive has instructed Brian Calder to investigate the murder of a top-level agent. He has narrowed the suspects down to three-all members of Brent's Club. But while questioning the first, he finds himself threatened. (Repeat)

A filmed series in which Arnold Palmer and Gary Player are challenged in eighteen-hole match play by pairs drawn from the elite of America's professional tournament circuit.

This week: Arnold Palmer and Gary Player v. Dave Ragan and Joe Campbell played at the Riviera Country Club, Los Angeles.

From the British Museum
Written and introduced by Robert Erskine.

Tonight's programme looks at the Museum's collection of African art, and culminates with the magnificent bronzes and ivories from Ife and Benin.

To many people Africa is still merely a land of primitive technology, childish institutions, and rampant superstition. To some its culture is only interesting as a survival of the habits of our own primitive forebears.
Tonight's programme does much to dispel this view. Discoveries over the last few decades have revealed numerous new facts about African history. For instance, while Europe was still in the depths of the Dark Ages, Africans were making objects of quite extraordinary beauty and subtlety-like the portrait head in bronze from the city of Ife in Nigeria. But discoveries like the Ife heads, while they change preconceived ideas about African history and culture, frequently pose more questions than they answer. This is one of the most fascinating features of 'Unexpected Africa'.

A monthly report from the world of music.
including:

Christmas Carols
Outside broadcast cameras attend a rehearsal for the annual Christmas Concert at Broadstairs.
Conductor, The Rt. Hon. Edward Heath, M.P.

Peter Ustinov making further explorations in musical character.
Tonight: The world of the composer

Karlheinz Stockhausen
An encounter with the controversial atomic age composer.

Introduced by Bernard Keeffe.

Preference and prejudice towards books and writers.
Introduced by Robert Robinson.
With Bernardine Bishop, Anthony Blond, Alan Coren, John Gross.

followed by The Weather

Stay up a little longer with Denis Tuohy, Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and Philip Jenkinson with Film Requests.
Letters to Philip Jenkinson should be addressed c/o Late Night Line-Up, [address removed]