A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'The Moon in the Puddle' by John Eyers
Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.
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(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
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by Ray Jenkins
Starring Marius Goring
with Ann Morrish
and Victor Winding, Michael Farnsworth, Valerie Murray
Guest star, Daphne Heard

Eddie, a pensioner, spends much of his time in a betting shop working out his half-crown accumulators.
After a win of forty pounds he is found strangled in his own home. His grandson, who lived with him, is missing.
Would the boy murder his own grandfather? Why is he trying to leave the country with forty pounds in his pocket?
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by Fanny Cradock
A 40-page booklet 'Giving a Dinner Party' by Fanny and Johnnie Cradock has been published at 2s. 6d. Order through your bookseller, or send crossed P.O. (not stamps) for 3s. 3d. (inc. post and packing) to BBC Publications, [address removed].
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On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, presenting Sacha Guitry's witty and spectacular story of the greatest epoch in French history, as told by Talleyrand

starring Daniel Gelin as the young Bonaparte, Raymond Pellegrin as Napoleon, Sacha Guitry as Talleyrand, Michele Morgan as Josephine
with Danielle Darrieux, Orson Welles, Erich von Stroheim, Maria Schell, Micheline Presle, Patachou, Jean Gabin, Yves Montand
Written and directed by Sacha Guitry

Besides writing and directing Napoleon, Sacha Guitry also acts the role of Talleyrand. As a kind of commentator he relates anecdotes from Napoleon's life to a group of friends, each anecdote illustrated by a flashback to the scene itself. Guitry's delivery is superb, and he successfully reserves all the witty lines for himself.
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