A programme for children at home.
In the story chair, Ruth Goring
Today's story is called 'The Cat and the Lettuce Leaf'

(to 11.25)

Fourteen programmes on the laws that affect our daily lives.
Introduced by John Edmunds.

This programme deals with those areas of motoring law where, because of the danger of death, the law prescribes absolute standards of behaviour from motorists. It also includes part of a Scotland Yard lecture on modern experiments in traffic (and accident) control; and tests carried out by a police surgeon on a drunken motorist.
With Superintendent Mahaffy, Traffic Department, New Scotland Yard
Charles D. Brandreth, A.A. Lawyer and a Police Surgeon

A further play-off between teams from
London (West) - Irene Thomas, Christopher Anderson, Neil Stein
and Dover - Beryl Harrison, John Henderson, Ronald Robertson
Introduced by Derek Hart.

David Fairhall and Penny Bowles cover the world of ships, boats, and the sea.

What is it like on board the fastest warship in the world? Who first thought of making a 70 m.p.h. patrol boat built of wood and powered by three gas turbine engines? Waterline reports from the South Coast shipyard which has five navies queueing up to buy Britain's marine best-seller at £600,000 a time.
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A thriller in six parts by Victor Canning.
Starring Terence Longdon, Isobel Black, Peter Vaughan

Ex-crook Jim Raikes reverts to his criminal talents to qualify for a crime syndicate. As he faces the final selection committee, another candidate is exposed as a spy and killed.
(Shown on Saturday)

Solti rehearses Don Juan by Richard Strauss
with the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Led by John Ludlow
and discusses the work with John Culshaw.

This 'tone poem', written when Strauss was only twenty-four, established him immediately at the forefront of his art. Intense, passionate, full of exuberance and colour, Don Juan remains one of the supreme achievements of the romantic imagination.
(Georg Solti and the Royal Opera House Orchestra appear by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
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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

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