A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Miranda Connell, Johnny Ball

This week from Monday to Friday Play School offers stories, songs, activities, and entertainment; but the poem that begins each programme is specially chosen for those who have to stay indoors with coughs and sneezes.
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger,
Sneeze on Tuesday, meet a stranger,
Sneeze on Wednesday, get a letter,
Sneeze on Thursday, something better

Today's story is called 'The Little Red Hen'
(to 11.20)

How a baby grows in the womb and how the mother's body adapts to its needs.

Introduced by Joan Bakewell.
With Two Consultant Obstetricians.
(Shown yesterday on BBC-1)

See page 12

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.

Starring Dick Emery
with Victor Maddern, Janet Brown, Mark Singleton, Roger Avon and Jenny White
Special guest artist, Trisha Noble

(Colour)

A time of change
A severing of roots
A readjustment

Todmorden, Lancashire-the carnival goes on in spite of the rain and the news that one of the town's largest cotton mills is to close. Tonight's film looks at the lives of three mill workers who have just received notice of redundancy: Jacob Fielden, 56, senior foreman; Michael Redmond, 31, overlooker; and Sandra Walker, 20, weaver.

See page 19
(Colour)

by Alan Plater
With Nigel Davenport as Donkin and Norman Rodway as Murphy
with Avril Elgar as Margaret, Anne Stallybrass as Kate, Geoffrey Bayldon as Palmer, Peter Stephens as Captain Carruthers
(Norman Rodway is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

Murphy is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Donkin is, as ever, 'running like hell'. They find themselves reluctantly sharing a cabin on a Mediterranean cruise. Murphy just wants to read his library book on home wine-making, but Donkin has other ideas and persuades the steward to send a little feminine company in their direction.
(Colour)

from The Talk of the Town in the heart of London.
Kenneth Williams introduces
Tonight's star, Sandie Shaw
from America, The Keeners
from Guyana, Sol Raye
and from Britain, Roy Budd
(Colour)

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley.
"Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong" (Dryden)
(Colour)