A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week Valerie Pitts, Peter Reeves
In the story chair, Elizabeth Hunt

This week's poem is about snowdrops, and on Wednesday there are real snow-drops in Play School with some other flowers and shrubs which bloom in winter.
On Tuesday Valerie reads some more adventures of Miffy, a small white rabbit; and on Thursday, after Peter's story about two children moving into a new house, the toys move house.
Dogs, kittens, and donkeys all feature in Elizabeth Hunt's three stories, which are called 'Pepper and the Fox', 'Kerry and Kips', and 'Humbug the Donkey'.
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Five talks on the aims and methods of Science and Engineering.

John Maynard Smith, Professor of Biology, University of Sussex talks about the aims and methods of a research biologist.

by N.F. Simpson.
Starring Pauline Devaney as Middie Paradock, Edwin Apps as Bro Paradock
Guest star, Avis Bunnage as Martha
featuring Geoffrey Hibbert as Humphrey, Terence Brady as Mr. Croxall, Gwendolyn Watts as Gladys, John Ringham as Laurence Grimsby

A weekly series about films and film-makers.

"I do the decoration and the costumes and I write the story and control the actors and make the props and cut the picture - I do the entire thing"
"I don't admire anyone"

A portrait of a formidable personality from the history of the cinema-the discoverer of Marlene Dietrich and the maker of The Blue Angel, The Scarlet Empress, Shanghai Express, Morocco, I, Claudius.
In this programme he talks about his work and demonstrates how he achieved his unique visual effects.

by Evelyn Waugh.
Adapted for television in three parts by Giles Cooper.
Starring Edward Woodward as Guy Crouchback
and Vivian Pickles, Freddie Jones, Sarah Lawson, James Villiers, Basil Dignam, Paul Hardwick, Kenneth Fortescue

(Paul Hardwick is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Anthony Roye is in "Lady Windermere's Fan" at the Phoenix Theatre, London)
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The best in international jazz recorded in concert from Britain's foremost colleges and universities.
This week from The Chelsea College of Science and Technology, University of London:
The Horace Silver Quintet
Second of two programmes by this exciting American group.
Horace Silver (piano), Woody Shaw (trumpet), Tyrone Washington (saxophone), Larry Ridley (bass), Roger Humphries (drums)
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.
(The Horace Silver Quintet appears by arrangement with Harold Davison)
(Next week, from the Oxford Union: 'Jazz from Chicago to Kansas City')

A last look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion