A programme for children at home
Presenters this week, Carol Chell, Lionel Morton
Today's story: "Bod's Present" by Michael and Joanne Cole

A machine that can make hundreds of chocolate bars in an hour, a train that climbs a mountain, and a forest of Christmas trees are some of the things to be seen through the Play School windows this week.
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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)

The High Chaparral ...is the bid of a family seeking roots in the newly won West
...is the threat to the new settlers from Mexicans and Indians

With Tucson under the control of ruthless outlaws the army is called in. But the people who appealed for help are anything but grateful when the magnificent cavalry soldiers actually arrive.
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Co-starring John Junkin, Tim Brooke-Taylor
with Roland MacLeod, Mary Miller, Peter Pocock, Petra Markham, Tony Holland, Barry du Boulay

(Colour)

by John Foster
Cast in order of appearance:
John Breslin as Thompson, Jean Marsh as Alex, Robert MacLeod as Neale, Garfield Morgan as Wolfe, Tenniel Evans as Baker, Mary Webster as Lyn

The interview of Professor Michael Thompson has been designed by a TV current affairs programme as a piece of systematic destruction of a public figure. But it turns out differently. Thompson skilfully uses the programme as a platform for his controversial ideas, and, as a result, the TV company's switchboard is jammed with protests from irate viewers and reporters seeking a good knocking story. Wolfe, the programme's editor, is furious at the interviewer's failure. Viewers, he points out, only like success. It is like a Roman circus - the more blood seen to be spilt, the higher the ratings. That is why viewers should never see what goes on behind the screen, as Thirty-Minute Theatre shows you tonight.
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A series of profiles on the life and work of artists of international stature

Sean Kenny is perhaps most famous in this country as a designer of stage sets -
for example, Blitz, Maggie May, The Four Musketeers, and the National Theatre's production of Uncle Vanya. Kenny may not resemble anyone's idea of a visionary. Nonetheless, as his words reveal, he is a man with a vision. He is really convinced that the kind of rooms we live in shape our work, that the way school books are printed affect learning and character, that 'useless' shapes of steel or concrete in a street, park, or room can usefully animate people's lives.
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A last look around the daily scene with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley

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