A programme for children at home.
Today's story: "Boots" by Katherine Hoskyns and Jenny Joseph
(Colour)
(to 11.20)
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
(Colour)
by Pat Flower
With Suzanne Neve, Tenniel Evans
She is saving up for her trousseau and works in the evenings as secretary to a writer. Tonight he has dictated an outline of his latest thriller on to a tape recorder for her. Gradually she realises that the central character in the thriller bears an uncanny and indeed terrifying resemblance to herself.
"The play was compelling" (Daily Mirror)
"Miss Neve cleverly conveyed the impression of mounting hysteria" (Daily Telegraph)
"Suzanne Neve managed to pull off a very difficult trick: the way a woman behaves when she believes she is alone" (Observer)
(Colour)
European television crosses the frontiers of the more remote areas of the world to report on those countries which for reasons of distance or politics still remain relatively unknown.
Directed by Pierre Kast for O.R.T.F., Paris
(Colour)
Tonight: the 1954 production The Glenn Miller Story
Starring James Stewart, June Allyson
and featuring guest stars Louis Armstrong, Frances Langford, Gene Krupa, Ben Pollack, The Modernaires
Glenn Miller, one of the most notable dance band musicians of his time, became one of the great morale boosters when he joined the U.S. Air Force during the Second World War. He died tragically when a single-engined plane in which he was flying to Paris disappeared over the English Channel.
(Colour)
(Colour)
A last look around the daily scene.
(Colour)
