A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Miranda Connell, Rick Jones
In the story chair, Gerald Young

(to 11.25)

Characteristic forms of English art discussed by Basil Taylor.

The portrait brings before us a multitude of individuals, famous or obscure, and provides many historical clues to the structure of English society and the development of taste and manners.

A duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell with Naomi Chance, Norman Hartnell and Kenneth Williams with Dilys Laye, Leslie Sands.
Referee, Joe Melia

Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring.

More than a million drivers are convicted of motoring offences in Britain each year. Eighty thousand are disqualified from driving, five thousand go to prison.
Dr. T.C. Willett, Lecturer in Sociology at Reading University, and Maxwell Boyd, Motoring Editor of the Sunday Times, examine the growing evidence that an unhappy and unbalanced life is likely to lead to a motoring offence. Do most motorists, in fact, 'drive as they live'?

A thriller in five parts by Eddie Boyd.
Starring Patrick Allen, Roddy McMillan
with Madeleine Christie, Anne Kristen

Johnny has found that Julia was the victim of subtle persecution - obscene letters, phone calls, and so on - all of which point to him as the persecutor.
(Shown on Saturday)

Second of three programmes of rehearsal, interview, and performance in which piano concertos are directed, in the original style, from the keyboard.

Tonight: Andor Foldes plays the solo piano and conducts the London Mozart Orchestra, leader, Maurice Clare, in Beethoven's Concerto No. 1, in C major.
Before an invited audience at the Fairfield Hall, Croydon

(Daniel Barenboim is soloist-conductor in Mozart's Piano Concerto in B Flat (K.595): February 3)

Ian Trethowan looks back over the past week in Parliament and introduces reports on big debates in both Houses, questions to Ministers, significant moves behind the scenes, and the effects of M.P.s' work inside and outside Westminster.
With Hardiman Scott, David Holmes.

followed by The Weather

Including
Desert Island Plunder
This month sees the twenty-fifth anniversary of the famous radio programme Desert Island Discs.
Tonight Roy Plomley with the aid of film from the BBC archives and elsewhere, recalls some of his most memorable castaways.