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A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Julie Stevens, Wally Whyton
Today's story is called "What Anna Saved" by Inger and Lasse Sandberg

All sorts of things are collected in the Play School Useful Box: today Julie uses sweet papers, egg cartons, and empty cardboard boxes to make a house. There's a house on wheels - an old gypsy caravan - to see on Tuesday, and Julie and Wally have a sing-song round the campfire. Among the places the windows show this week are a big river where wild bears go to fish, and a zoo where some chimpanzees are having a tea party.
(to 11.20)

Contributors

Presenter:
Julie Stevens
Presenter:
Wally Whyton
Author (What Anna Saved):
Inger Sandberg
Author (What Anna Saved):
Lasse Sandberg

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. (Colour)

Contributors

Newsreader:
John Timpson
Newsreader:
Peter Woods
Reporter:
Martin Bell
Reporter:
Michael Blakey
Reporter:
Michael Clayton
Reporter:
Tom Mangold
Reporter:
Brian Saxton
Reporter:
David Tindall
Reporter:
Richard Whitmore

Adapted by Neil Shand from the "Beachcomber" column of the Daily Express.
Starring Spike Milligan
with Hattie Jacques
and featuring George Benson, Clive Dunn, Julian Orchard, Leon Thau, Frank Thornton
and with Betty Marsden
Also appearing this week: Ruth Kettlewell, Dianne Greaves
(Colour)

Contributors

Author:
Beachcomber [J.B. Morton]
Adapted by:
Neil Shand
Additional material:
Ken Hoare
Music:
Dennis Wilson
Design:
Chris Pemsel
Producer:
John Howard Davies
Dr. Strabismus:
Spike Milligan
[Actress]:
Hattie Jacques
[Actor]:
George Benson
[Actor]:
Clive Dunn
[Actor]:
Julian Orchard
[Actor]:
Leon Thau
[Actor]:
Frank Thornton
[Actress]:
Betty Marsden
[Actress]:
Ruth Kettlewell
[Actress]:
Dianne Greaves

A documentary series that looks at our changing attitudes to the countryside.
With John Betjeman.

An island of contrasts - of Cowes Week and sand paintings; Royalty and gnomes; trippers and yachts-men; Keats and the Blue Lagoon; Queen Victoria still remembered in an English playground.
from the South and West
(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Betjeman
Directed and produced by:
Michael Croucher

Starring Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor
with Madhur Jaffrey.

This delightful film set in India twenty years ago after Independence, follows the adventures of a company of actors led by an Englishman, who tour the country performing Shakespeare.
But as the old Imperial culture declines, the Buckinghams, as the troupe is called, find it increasingly hard to get bookings.

When the film was first shown at the London Film Festival in 1965, it charmed audiences with its gentle nostalgia, and shifts between comedy and sadness.
Geoffrey Kendal, who plays Felicity Kendal's father in the film, is, in fact, her real-life father.

Contributors

Music:
Satyajit Ray
Screenwriter:
R. Prawer Jhabvala
Screenwriter/Director:
James Ivory
Producer:
Ismail Merchant
Lizzie Buckingham:
Felicity Kendal
Sanju:
Shashi Kapoor
Manjula:
Madhur Jaffrey
Mr. Buckingham:
Geoffrey Kendal
Mrs. Buckingham:
Laura Liddell
The Maharajah:
Utpal Dutt

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley.
"I'm damned if I see it, he said" (Sir Henry Newbolt)

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Michael Dean
Presenter:
Joan Bakewell
Presenter:
Tony Bilbow
Presenter:
Brian King
Presenter:
Sheridan Morley

BBC Two England

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