A programme for children at home
Presenters this week, Dawn Keeler, Johnny Ball
Today's story: 'The Flying Steam Roller' by Jon Chalon

Postman, nurse, scientist - or astronaut perhaps-have you ever thought what you'd like to be one day?
This week Play School is about the different work people do.
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The total ruin of Germany after the Second World War is a familiar picture. But was it as bad as it looked?
Introduced by John Tidmarsh

Reporting: John Timpson and Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.

Followed by The Weather

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A film series about the untamed West
A pioneer settler and his two sons fighting to keep their hard-won cattle tand in the lawless territory of California during the closing years of last century.

Joe Barker, an embittered lawman on his last assignment, arrives at the Lancer ranch hoping Murdoch will renew an offer of partnership made before Johnny and Scott came home. Trouble follows swiftly when Joe realises he is no longer needed.
(Colour)

by Jimmy Perry
[Starring] Terry Scott and Hugh Lloyd
with John Clive, Leon Thau, Lynn Dalby, Anne de Vigier, Chris Gannon, Roger Brierley, Linda James, Colin Spaull, James McManus
and featuring Bernard Spear

'Once more into the breach, dear gnomes'... this is Big's battle-cry in tonight's story, when the Gnomes of 25 Telegraph Road go to war. It is a war about an oppressed minority which Small tries to settle peacefully, but Big seizes the opportunity to enhance a new bellicose inventiveness.
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A series of six documentary films in which the flavour of a vanishing Britain is captured by Terence Carroll
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Since the Beeching Plan, rural branch railway lines have been ripped up with as much vigour as they were originally put down in the great 'railway mania' of the 1840s. Very few are left now, and this film records the final two days of the line between King's Lynn and Dereham, twenty-six miles that served the scattered inhabitants of a lovely part of Norfolk for more than 120 years.

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The return series

The sixth of thirteen matches in which the Americans are seeking revenge for their defeat in the first series.
Al Geiberger U.S.A. v. Martin Roesink, Holland at Portmarnock, Ireland
Roesink, claimed to be the longest hitter in golf, tackles the 1966 American P.G.A. Champion.
Prize-money: $4,000 to the winner; $3,000 to the loser
Position after five matches: U.S.A. 3: The World 2
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The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
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