A programme for children at home
Today's story: "Two Can Toucan" by David McKee
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(Colour)
(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
(Colour)

A duel of words and wit between
Raymond Baxter, Hugh Paddick, Ted Moult
and
Moira Lister, Mary Peach, Imogen Hassall
Referee, Robert Robinson
(Colour)

Starting at Singapore, he travels by road and rail through Malaya to Northern Thailand.

'The lovely cool hills of Chieng Mai... I imagine when men disappear from home for ever, they must finish up in places like this.'
In this last programme in the series Johnny travels 500 miles north of Bangkok to the ancient city of Chieng Mai. Here he comes across a village entirely devoted to the making of umbrellas and parasols, and visits the Mieow-a primitive hill tribe, in the remote Northern mountains. He also sees some exciting sword-fighting, classical dancing, elephants at work with teak, and Thai boxing, the rules of which would not have suited the Marquess of Queensberry.
From the South and West
(Colour)

with Robert Erskine

The potters of China and Persia started by admiring characteristics of each other's work and ended in industrial dispute.
(Colour)

Feature films from a decade of movie-making
Starring Richard Attenborough
with Dorothy Alison, Donald Houston, Bernard Lee

Is the man upstairs a criminal or mentally disturbed but harmless? The police and the Mental Welfare Officer have decidedly different opinions.

(Colour)

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