Presenters this week Julie Stevens, Rick Jones
In the story chair, Myrtle Richardson

January falls the snow,
February cold winds blow,
In March peep out the early flowers,
And April comes with sunny showers.
These are the first lines of Play School's opening poem this week, and as it is the first day of the New Year Rick and Julie use ribbon, cardboard, string, and pictures from the Useful Box to make a calendar, which shows a different picture for each month of the year.
Today's story is called 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' by Beatrix Potter
(to 11.20)

Part of a concert of music by the Strauss family given this morning in the Main Hall of the Musikverein.
by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Led and directed by Willi Boskovsky
with dancers from the Vienna State Opera Ballet
Recorded via Eurovision by courtesy of the Austrian Television Service
Introduced by Richard Baker.

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson and Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Brian Saxton, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.
See page 19

Starring Dick Emery
with Kenneth J. Warren, Patsy Rowlands, Mark Singleton and Jerold Wells
also Sandra Fehr and Simon Cord
Special guest artist, Roy Budd

(Colour)

A time of change
A severing of roots
A readjustment

Mrs. Cooke was born in Victorian England. She has had a long, vigorous, independent life. Now after a lifetime of self-sufficiency she feels a prisoner in her own body; after eighteen years sharing a house with her daughter she will share a room with two other old ladies; Mrs. Cooke is moving into a Salvation Army home.
(Colour)

by Alan Plater
With Norman Rodway as Murphy, Nigel Davenport as Donkin
(Norman Rodway is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Colour)

with Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Two great singers and a famous guitarist entertain with songs and melodies old and new in a show which provides a perfect setting for all three. (Colour)

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley.
"He watch'd and wept" (Goldsmith)
(Colour)