A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Ann Morrish, Rick Jones

Play School starts with a different well-known rhyme each day this week. Here are some clues:
Monday: Bells on her toes
Tuesday: He had ten thousand men
Wednesday: Where oh where can he be?
Thursday: Up above the world so high
Friday: If all the trees were bread and cheese
Today's story is called Whistle for Willie
Written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
(to 11.25)

Fourth day's play at Lord's.
(Also on BBC-1 and BBC Wales)
(to 18.15)

Ten programmes in which Christopher Chataway looks at careers open to young people of average or high academic ability.
First shown on BBC-1

With Dennis Wilson's Orchestra.

by M. Charles Cohen
Starring Bob Monkhouse as Jerry Janus

Jerry Janus is the apparently brassy, over-confident disc jockey of a Canadian TV station's 'Past Midnight Show.' His wife, however, is threatening to leave him and in an excruciating crescendo of dashes between control board and outside phone he tries to stave off his impending domestic tragedy while keeping the show running to its split-second schedule.

The third programme in a new series in which the world-famous eighty-year-old opera producer Carl Ebert works in rehearsal conditions with young professional singers.
Tonight, scenes from Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande
including part of Act 1 scene 1, Golaud's discovery of Melisande; and Act 2 scene 1, Pelleas and Melisande by the fountain.
Next master class: August 7

Tales from the last frontier of the great American West.
A film series starring James Drury as The Virginian.
See page 17

followed by The Weather

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