A programme for children at home.
In the story chair, Norman Mitchell
Today's story is called "Bits and Pieces and the Old Woman" by Frances Lindsay.
(The picturebooks for next week are "Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert McCloskey; "Tobias Pilgrim Builds a Starship" by Malcolm Carder)
(to 11.20)
Nine programmes on advances and research in the biology of reproduction of man and mammals.
Introduced by Graham Chedd.
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.
(Colour)
A film series introduced by Bernard Venables.
Leslie Brewer float fishing for chub on a quiet reach of the River Avon in Hampshire.
(Colour)
by William Emms
Starring Ewen Solon
with Callum Mill
Guest stars: Alex Scott, Alan Tilvern
Smith is faced with a very difficult moral problem when he is informed that there are several illegal immigrants working at the docks.
The return series
With five matches to play, the winner of the biggest first prize in golf history - £20,000 as Golfer of the Year in 1967 - comes to Wales to represent the Americans, who are seeking revenge for defeat in an earlier series.
Gay Brewer (U.S.A.) v. Harold Henning (South Africa) at Royal St. David's, Harlech
Prize-money: Winner, $4,000 - loser, $3,000
(Colour)
America's First Lady of Comedy
"People just assume I don't go to a beauty parlour. That's ridiculous... they have a special entrance for me marked 'Emergency'!"
"Thank goodness I feel better than I look... if I didn't I'd be a very sick woman!"
"The only way to get out of bed every morning with a big smile on your face is to go to bed with a hanger in your mouth!"
with Warde Donovan and The Roy Budd Trio.
(Colour)
Ian Trethowan looks back over the past week in Parliament and introduces reports on big debates in both Houses, questions to Ministers, significant moves behind the scenes, and the effects of M.P.s' work inside and outside Westminster.
With Hardiman Scott, David Holmes.
(Colour)
(Colour)
by John Burke
Dramatised by Hugh Leonard
Ronnie's party is well under way, and his mother Alice is waiting for her husband Tom to get home from the office to help keep order. The doorbell goes, but it isn't Tom - it's Simon Potter, a rather strange little boy whom the others, particularly Ronnie, don't like, and persecute. But he does know some pretty unusual and horrifying variations on children's party games...
(Colour)
with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley
"Thank heaven I don't have to go out and enjoy it" (Logan Smith)
(Colour)
