A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Marla Landi, Terence Holland
In the story chair, Norman Mitchell

I stoop and swoop On the air, or loop
Through the trees, and then go soaring, O!
This is part of the poem about birds which starts Play School each day this week.
It is Norman Mitchell's first visit to Play School and he will tell a story about a robot called 'Grotty', and a Russian tale called 'Slipper, Straw, and Bubble'.
(to 11.25)

A large dam carries a tremendous load and if it fails the result is widespread devastation. A dam designer must combine an intimate feeling for clay or concrete together with an ability in higher mathematics.
Presented by Professor S. R. Sparkes and Graham Tombs.

Highlights of famous revues introduced by Alan Melville.
Starring this week Hermione Baddeley, Ronnie Barker, Joan Heal, James Kenney,
Dilys Laye, Joan Sims, Jimmy Thompson, Elisabeth Welch in excerpts from Rise Above It (1942), Sky High (1942), Sweet and Low (1943), A La Carte (1948), Intimacy at Eight-Thirty (1955), For Amusement Only (1956).

A weekly series about films and film-makers.

Paul Mayersberg examines the work of the director of T. Men, Winchester 73, The Man from Laramie, The Tin Star, Man of the West, God's Little Acre and talks to him about these films and his latest project Dandy in Aspic.

A group of three plays by Harold Pinter.
With Derek Godfrey as Law, Harold Pinter as Stott, Kika Markham as Jane

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor, John Pritchard
playing music made famous by this great American jazz composer.
John Dankworth introduces part of the concert recorded last night at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
(Duke Ellington appears by arrangement with Harold Davison and Norman Granz)

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