A programme for children at home.
In the story chair, H. E. Todd

There are many ways of making a picture, and in Play School this week you will see a different way each day.
On Tuesday Miranda Connell reads the story of 'St. George and the Fiery Dragon' by Elizabeth and Gerald Rose, and as it's Dressing-up Day, do you think Rick Jones will become St. George or the Dragon?
On Thursday the arched window will show two children exploring the ruins of Tintagel Castle and Merlin's Cave. Some people believe King Arthur once had his castle at Tintagel, and the story that day is the legend of how Arthur became King.
H. E. Todd returns to the story-teller's chair with three more stories about Bobby Brewster.
(to 11.25)

Little more than a hundred years ago all that man knew of his past was what was written in the Bible and by classical writers.
Glyn Daniel tells the story of how the prehistory of man came to take its proper place in our general scheme of knowledge.
(First shown on BBC-1)

Written by William Inge.
A series of outstanding film dramas.
This week starring Anne Bancroft and Jack Warden

The marriage between socialite Faye Garrit and her rough-hewn former baseball star husband reaches a crucial stage when his sense of being a 'has been' leads him to outbursts of violence.

A special edition featuring a new opera jointly commissioned by BBC-2 and the Cheltenham Festival.

Music by the young English composer Gordon Crosse and words by W.B. Yeats from his one-act play Purgatory - a violent Irish story of murder in a doomed family.
The opera produced by Vladek Sheybal who is seen at work with the composer and the cast.
The New Opera Company
The Delphos Ensemble
Leader, Jurgen Hess

by Ronald Eyre.
The second of five new films on the theme of love and marriage.
With John Collin as Baines
and Eileen Atkins as The Girl
and Robert Sansom as P/OP

followed by The Weather

A last look around the world of television.
Comments, Criticism, Discussion
with Denis Tuohy, Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean and tonight's guests.