A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'The Leaning Tower' by Joanne Cole with live illustrations by the Wherehouse-La Mama Group
(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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A duel of words and wit between
Magnus Magnusson, Henry Longhurst, Graham Hill
and
Nemone Lethbridge, Julia Foster, Barbara Blake
Referee, Robert Robinson
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Starting at Singapore, he travels by road and rail through Malaya to Northern Thailand.

"The temple of the Emerald Buddha... is such a delightful demonstration of sheer happiness... an ingenious, hilarious, architectural giggle."

Of Bangkok's 21-million population, ninety-four per cent are Buddhist and in this film Johnny visits Wat Bencha-the marble monastery-where he sees the monks at work and at prayer. He also visits the grounds of the Grand Palace and the fabulous Temple of the Emerald Buddha. The film ends with a tour of the Klongs. They form a maze of waterways through the city and the surrounding countryside, and the people live in houses that are open at the water's edge. Here too is the Floating Market where sampans are piled high with every kind of fruit and vegetable and where, from a boat, it is possible to buy anything from candles to a cup of coffee or a joint of meat.
From the South and West
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with Robert Erskine

Perhaps the ancient inhabitants of the Cycladic Islands felt that Nature's unpredictable generosity and parsimony was best personified as a capricious goddess, for their commonest image was a little marble female figurine.

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Feature films from a decade of movie-making.

Dress design and the world of high fashion have a glamour that rouses a primitive excitement in almost all women. For old Madame Alice in her nearly-deserted salon the great days had passed long before 1938 when this story begins. But for Martha Watkins the great days must be now, and she sees opportunity within her grasp...
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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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