A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Valerie Pitts, Brian Cant
Today's story is called "Make Way for Ducklings" by Robert McCloskey

"Here we come a-piping
In Springtime and in May..."
That's how this week's poem begins. There is a lot going on out of doors at this time of year, so Play School will have in it spring flowers, fruit blossoms, birds' nests and young ducklings. On Tuesday, for the first time, the programme will be shown in colour when Valerie and Brian take the toys for a special day out into the country. On Wednesday, through the windows, we visit Julian D'Albie in his riverside garden for a story about his cat. For Friday's science experiment, Brian uses a duck floating on the water, but this time a toy duck.
(to 11.20)

Five programmes on outside interests for women at home.
Introduced by John Stockbridge.
(Shown on Sunday on BBC-1)

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)

Written by Marty Feldman and Barry Took.
Starring Marty Feldman
co-starring John Junkin, Tim Brooke-Taylor

(Colour)

Written by Robert Erskine.

From the early beginnings of Hinduism in the vast flat lands of South India have come mystic and beautiful works of art.
Robert Erskine tells the classic legends of the Hindu canon from the sixth-century rock carvings of Mahaballipuram to the celebrated Chola bronzes at Tanjore. (Colour)

The Rt. Hon. Barbara Castle, M.P., First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity
The Rt. Hon. William Ross, M.P., Secretary of State for Scotland
and The Rt. Hon. George Thomas, M.P., Secretary of State for Wales answer questions from studio audiences in Glasgow, Manchester, and Cardiff.
A Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Labour Party
(Also on BBC-1 and BBC Wales)

Adapted by Patrick Garland from the works of John Aubrey
With Roy Dotrice as John Aubrey

(A BBC-tv-Talent Associates production)
(Colour)

Roy Dotrice as John Aubrey in Brief Lives
Tonight's much-praised production started life at the Hampstead Theatre Club in 1967. Since then it has had a run on Broadway, New York, and at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
The play is an adaptation from the outrageous memoirs of the seventeenth-century gossip John Aubrey. It attempts to represent the final day in his life and to capture the essence of what might be called 'Jacobean kitchen-sink.'
Aubrey potters about the set which is a huge and elaborate Jacobean room, cluttered with curiosities and antiquities collected throughout his lifetime. It is as if one is simply paying a visit to the house of an old man who lives on his own in some discomfort, and who makes up for absence of friends by bringing to life reminiscences of people he knew -some famous, some obscure-recounting scandalous gossip and anecdotes. In between, he eats, drinks, reads, writes, washes, and dozes.
Roy Dotrice is the only actor, and throughout the performance never leaves the set.

(Colour)

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley.
"An' the gobble-uns'll git you
Ef you don't watch" (James Riley)
(Colour)