A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Valerie Pitts, Rick Jones

Today's story is called 'Gennarino'
Written and Illustrated by Nicola Simbari.

Today's programme has to do with the sea and boats: sailing boats made from match-boxes, a picturebook about fishing boats, and some songs that sailors used to sing. On Wednesday a brilliant bird from the jungle, a macaw, comes to visit the other Play School pets. On Thursday Rick makes a big picture of the sea and through the windows Pipaluk, the baby polar bear from London Zoo, has a look at his own swimming pool. Valerie does an experiment on Friday with toy sailing boats and Rick reads Maurice Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are.

(to 11.20)

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.
followed by The Weather
(Colour)

BBC-2 presents this complete opera direct from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
See columns 3 and 4
(Colour)

(Colour)

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley.
(Colour)