A programme for children at home
Presenters this week, Julie Stevens, Brian Cant
Today's story: "Monsieur Bussy the Celebrated Hamster" by Pascale Claude-Lafontaine

I saw a dog,
Who wasn't a dog
And a cat,
Who wasn't a cat...
Today Julie wonders how an animal like that would look and she tries making a clay model of it. Tomorrow, Dressing-Up Day, Brian has a guess and uses a sheet to make himself into a strange animal. Later in the week Julie and Brian ask you what you think it looks like and suggest you paint a picture.
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Reporting: John Timpson and Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Sullivan, 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
...and spells adventure in the Arizona territory of 1870

Kilroy is a saddle tramp who walks into the High Chaparral, his saddle over his shoulder. Buck knows something of his past and is uneasy, Blue admires his ability with a gun, Big John his skill at the chess-board. He soon becomes a popular and valuable member of the team, but the past has a way of catching up with a man.
(Colour)

Written by Spike Milligan and Neil Shand
[Starring] Spike Milligan
with John Bluthal, Neil Shand and Fanny Carby, Alan Clare, Philippe Le Bars, Anthony Trent, Jenny Lee Wright, Charlie Young, Graham Mallard, Alex Macintosh, Michael Malnick.
Special guests, Clement Freud, Bernard Miles

(Colour)

A series which explores living memory

"The old days were the days for filming. I think there was more humanity in our old films. I think it was because we didn't know so much about it. When you know too much about a thing you're apt to put more mechanical effort into your work - you forget all the humanities."
George Pearson, who celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday this month, was one of Britain's leading film directors in the great days of silent pictures.
In tonight's film he movingly recalls some of his early years: seeing moving pictures for the first time more than seventy years ago; making some of his first films during the first world war; turning Betty Balfour into a star in the early 1920s...
The programme includes excerpts from some of Pearson's films: Christmas Day in The Workhouse (1914) Nothing Else Matters (1920) Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922) Reveille (1924)
(April 14: The Narrow-boat Men)
(Colour)

Three matches left to play in this nine-match series-and the Americans are one point behind.
Tonight: Madson Rudolph, U.S.A. v. Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentina at Hoylake
De Vicenzo, the 1967 British Open Champion, returns to the course where he won his title to meet Rudolph, a Walker Cup star before he began winning prizes on America's professional circuit.
Prize-money: $4,000 to the winner; $3,000 to the loser
Score after six matches: U.S.A. 2 1/2: The World 3 1/2

(Colour)

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with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)