Today's story: "Mrs Mopples Washing Line" by Anita Hewitt
Illustrated by Robert Broomfield
Presenters this week: Julie Stevens, Johnnie Silvo
(Colour)
with Ann Ladbury
Ten programmes based on a three-piece outfit of dress, coat and trousers specially designed for the series.
(Repeated: BBC1, Thursday, 12.30 pm. Publication including pattern: page 15)
with Peter Woods
Weather
A Western adventure series
Starring Pete Duel as Smith and Ben Murphy as Jones
with guest stars Vera Miles, Charles H. Gray
A posse's dogged perseverance is rewarded by the capture of Smith and Jones. Their situation is decidedly unhealthy but they are rescued at gunpoint with astonishing speed and efficiency. Their friends in need? Two children!
A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir, Madeline Smith, David Langton and Patrick Campbell, Isabel Dean, John Julius Norwich
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)
Many children are today taught in ways entirely different from their parents - so different that there is sometimes concern about falling standards and lack of discipline.
Tonight, Horizon looks at some of these changes and the reasoning behind them. Much of this so-called 'child-centred' approach is based on the implications of the work of Professor Jean Piaget. The programme shows his work and some fascinating attempts to revise the teaching of maths, science, music and the arts.
Christopher Searle, the London teacher suspended earlier this year for publishing his pupils' poems, explains his method and some of his students take part. He is one example of a teacher who is attempting to implement child-centred methods in an educational priority area. But just how well understood are the theories and practice that lie behind some of these changes? And how good is the teacher training which should support them?
(Radio Times People: page 4)
by Sean Hignett
[Starring] Frank Windsor as Victor
with Derek Anders as Harper
'Little tiny red stains like rain-drops gone rusty ...'
BBC Scotland
(Frank Windsor: page 13)
with Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley, Ray Taylor
