A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Marla Landi, Brian Cant
In the story chair, Richard Baker

This week Richard Baker is the story-teller today and on Wednesday and Friday-not quite the same serious man who usually reads the news, but a more informal Richard Baker telling some stories which he has already tried out with his own children who watch Play School at home.
When Marla's car breaks down on Tuesday, Brian dresses up as a garage mechanic and tries to help her, and on the same day there is a picture story about Little Pete and a car.
Today's story is called 'The Three Lazy Sons'
(to 11.25)

Five programmes on the problems of the mid-life period.

Unlike adolescence or old age, middle age is hard to pin down. Is there any pattern at all in the kind of problems people encounter then?
The opinions of: Dr. D.B. Bromley, Dr. Alex Comfort, Professor Elliott Jaques, Dr. Andrew Crowcroft, Dan Jacobson, A Consultant Psychiatrist.
(Shown yesterday on BBC-1)
See page 16

Highlights of famous revues.
Introduced by Alan Melville.
Starring this week: Marcia Ashton, Hermione Baddeley, Douglas Byng, Patrick Cargill, Neil Fitzwilliam, Josephine Gordon, Barrie Gosney, John Hewer, Brian Hunt, Peter Reeves, Joan Sims, Ronnie Stevens, Barbara Windsor, Aubrey Woods

by Derrick Sherwin
[Starring] Moray Watson, Bernard Horsfall as The Timekeepers and Lyndon Brook as Simon
with Eileen Colgan as The Sister, Anna Perry as Nurse Susan Lloyd, Derrick Sherwin as The Anaesthetist, Roger Ostime as The Doctor, Geraldine Moffatt as Sarah

The fourth of six documentaries on showmen and the shows they promote.

The man who runs the Royal Shakespeare Company, 140 actors, two theatres, a touring unit, a film company in the making... one of the most powerful theatre groups in the world.
See page 23

What do children in the more remote Scottish villages do with their spare time? How do they look to the future?
Harold Williamson looks for the answers in the villages of Falkland and Kingskettle.
"There's not much to do, we have to play our make up games"
"I'd rather live in a village - there's lot of clean air around"
From the North

A film series starring James Drury as The Virginian.

A wayward cowboy tries to reform and win back the affection of his wife and son, but it is easier said than done.
(Colour)

Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests.
(Colour)