A programme for children at home
Presenters this week, Miranda Connell, Rick Jones
Today's story: 'Lazy Jack'

I know a man who always wore
A saucepan on his head...
There are all kinds of nonsense rhymes, songs, and games in Play School this week
See colour feature on page 32
(to 11.20)

The World Tonight
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
(Colour)

Translated and adapted by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin from two plays by Eugene Labiche and Marc Michel.
Starring Patrick Cargill as Legrainard, Hattie Jacques as Madame Legrainard
with guest stars Barbara Windsor as Chiquette, Anton Rodgers as Regalas and Georgina Cookson as Madame de Pontmele
Also Marcia Ashton as Celine, Julian Orchard as Dardenboeut, Sarah Crichton, Mary Healey, Nina Huby, Beverley Scott, Juliette St. David as Flower assistants

A shopkeeper who has a daughter of marriageable age spends his time dissuading suitors from pursuing her... then a young artist arrives at the shop to return a handbag belonging to the shopkeeper's wife, which he has found on a bus.
(Colour)

with The MacDonald Sisters
The Island of Lewis, largest of the Outer Hebrides, lives by its tweed industry - an industry which has evolved a vast cycle of Gaelic work songs.
This documentary is based on these songs and attempts to give an impression of an island that is still steeped in its Gaelic tradition.

(from Scotland)
(Colour)

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

Johnny's divided loyalties place his father in great danger when bitter dispute between the cattle men seems likely to flare into open conflict.
(Colour)

£10,000 for the winner
Gary Player, South Africa v. Jack Nicklaus, U.S.A. at Muirfield
The play-off for supremacy following The Big Three in Japan, in which Arnold Palmer was eliminated and Player and Nicklaus finished all square after fifty-four holes. Player won his first British Open at Muirfield. So did Nicklaus. Now these two great rivals, vividly contrasting in build and technique, who have both won the Open on each side of the Atlantic, return to these Scottish links for this special match. A total of £16,000 is at stake.
(Colour)

(Les Amants de Teruel)
Written and directed by Raymond Roleau
A modern ballet starring Ludmila Tcherina

A modern version of the seventeenth-century tale about a young girl who marries an elderly duke, because she thinks her poor lover has been killed, and then discovers that he is still alive.
(Colour)

(Colour)