A programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Julie Stevens, Johnny Ball
Today's story is called "Little Pete and the Ladybird" by Leila Berg.

This week's Play School looks at lots of different animals. It starts each day with a farmyard counting rhyme. Today Julie makes a cardboard box into a stable for a horse. Through the windows on Tuesday there are some polar bears at the zoo. Wednesday is Pets Day, so Peter the rabbit, the goldfish, the birds, and the white mice are in Play School. And Johnny and Julie show the toys how to fish with magnets. On Thursday, through the windows, there is a huge fish-so big that a man can ride on its back. And on Friday Athene Seyler comes to Play School to tell the story of Henny-Penny, the little red hen.
(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)

Translated and adapted by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin from two plays by Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel.
Starring Patrick Cargill as Legrainard, Hattie Jacques as Madame Legrainard
with guest stars Barbara Windsor as Chiquette, Anton Rodgers as Regalas and Georgina Cookson as Madame de Pontmele
Also Marcia Ashton as Celine, Julian Orchard as Dardenboeut, Sarah Crichton, Mary Healey, Nina Huby, Beverley Scott, Juliette St. David as Flower assistants

A shopkeeper who has a daughter of marriageable age spends his time dissuading suitors from pursuing her... then a young artist arrives at the shop to return a handbag belonging to the shopkeeper's wife, which he has found on a bus.
(Colour)

A series of six films about the lives of people who have achieved success working in Paris.

The final week of rehearsal for the Centenary Show of the Folies - featuring the three leading girls, the American choreographer, and a cast of 150.
(Colour)

by Athol Fugard
with Michael Bryant and Ronald Lacey

In 1955 Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson competed together in the Mille Miglia. The emotional pressure on the two men is what fascinated Athol Fugard when he wrote this play. We have all admired the great racing drivers from a distance. This play tells us what makes them exceptional. Fugard has great insight into people and a special talent for being able to write about them truthfully; this combination makes "Mille Miglia" a very exciting and moving study of the men behind the wheel.
(Colour)

(Colour)

A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley with a discussion on "Mille Miglia" including Stirling Moss and Denis Jenkinson.
(Colour)