The first day from Brighton.
A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Miranda Connell, Terence Holland
In the story chair, Charles Leno
The poem which starts Play School each day this week is about a man who lived in a teapot-and on Thursday Miranda Connell and Terence Holland build some strange-shaped houses out of cardboard boxes. The picturebook is 'Veronica Goes to Petunia's Farm' by Rosier Duvoisin-Veronica is a hippopotamus and Petunia a goose.
Charles Leno is back again with some stories about the identical twins, Bill and Fred.
Further reports from Brighton.
(to 12.30; 14.00-17.00)
Ten programmes in which Magnus Magnusson enquires into the problems and methods of psychology today.
What are the causes of behaviour?
What makes people tick?
with Dr. Reginald Beech, Dr. Jeffrey Gray, A psychoanalyst
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Six films... Six children... Six worlds...
'She arrived here out of the blue one night with the Children's Officer from her home town... '
by Alun Owen.
[Starring] Keith Barron as John Lord, John Collin as Macallus, Geraldine Moffatt as Monica Lord, Malcolm Taylor as Waters, Brian Osborne as Barman
Journalist Jim Lord, returning to his native Liverpool to interview a 'pop' poet, finds himself interviewed instead. 'You wander in here, high enough to give yourself the necessary amount of courage to project all the unpleasant aspects of your own failures and frustrations on to me and rudely at that, and I'm supposed to react in some way that'll do your work for you, give you your "story".'
Kenneth Williams introduces tonight's star
from Greece, Nana Mouskouri
from Russia, The Ygrouchki Trio
from Cuba, Roberto Blanco
and from France, Les Masques
The music of I Motorini
Life ...in the animal world
Most animals respond to visual cues and the extent of this response has been measured in such classic experiments as Niko Tinbergen's study of instinct. The range of visual stimuli in the animal world, including that of man, is described by
Dr. Stuart Anstie, University of Bristol
Dr. David Blest, University of London
Richard Coss, Compagnie de l'Esthetique Industrielle
Dr. Michael Cullen, University of Oxford
Programme introduced by Dr. Desmond Morris, Zoological Society of London.
From the West
by Mrs. Gaskell.
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by David Turner.
Margaret Hale has met John Thornton, the industrialist. They are attracted, but each is antagonistic to what the other stands for.
(Shown last Tuesday)
followed by The Weather
A last look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.