A programme for children under 5.
Story: Mr Bits and Pieces' Lucky Dip by Frances Lindsay

(Repeated on BBC1 at 3.55 pm)
Book, Play School: Ready to Play, £1.50 from bookshops. Play On (record REC 332, cassette ZCM 332); Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away (record REC 242 or cassette MRMC 004), from record shops

in The Chimp
Stan and Ollie move in the best circles until the circus goes broke, but parting gifts of fellow performers keep them well up to scratch.
A HAL ROACH film
Directed by JAMES PARROTT

Based on the novel by JULES VERNE
The Courier of the Tsar is the secondary title of this seven-episode serial based on the famous adventure story.
In the first episode, as Michael Strogoff sets out on his journey to make contact with the Archduke Dimitri , the brother of the Tsar, a former colonel in the Imperial Guard, Ivan Ogareff , who is half-Tartar by birth, escapes from prison to join the Tartars and lead them in a war of independence.
Music by VLADIMIR COSMA
A film by JEAN PIERHE DECOURT
English version directed by LOUIS ELMAN for DE LANE LEA. London
A TF1/TECHNISONOR co-production

The last in the present series of seven programmes, made by young people for young people, comes from the London Borough of Hammersmith.
' ... Once upon a time. somewhere in the big city, seven little children met a man from the BBC who asked them if they'd like to be in the movies and see their name in lights. "Gosh! Super!" they said " We will all be stars! " ' But things never turn out the way you expect, do they?
' This is what they did instead and Adam and the Ants and Linx did it with them.'
Made with the help of the COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

including sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather

With JOHN THAW
Ten programmes for and about parents who are concerned about the way they treat their young children.
1: Happy Families?
The case history of a London family helps to explain why some parents abuse their children. In this case isolation from family and friends, unsuitable housing and, above all, the parents' own deferent and difficult childhoods contributed to the problem.
Director MARION ALLINSON Producer BERNARD ADAMS (Part 2: tomorrow 6.40)
Viewers in Scotland only who want help and advice can ring [number removed]Woddis On ... page 85

' with perhaps a different melody.' In this, his first television special for five years, singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan returns to the music scene and features many of his old hits together with his latest chart success ' What's in a kiss?'. Other new songs, penned during his ' years of contemplation ', are also featured.
Special guest Barbara Dickson
Lighting PETER BOOTH. Sound ROGER GUEST Designer NIGEL JONES
Executive producer JIM DUMIGNAN Producer DAVE WILLIAMS Director TONY WOLFE BBC Birmingham

by Douglas Adams
Adapted in six parts from the BBC Radio series
Starring Simon Jones and David Dixon and the voice of Peter Jones
featuring Joe Melia and Martin Benson

Arthur Dent is not convinced when his best friend, Ford Prefect, tells him that the world is about to end in 12 minutes. Should he remain lying in front of the bulldozers intent on demolishing his house to make way for a bypass? Or should he accept the offer of rescue from Ford, who reveals that he is an alien from the planet of Betelgeuse (pronounced Bee-tle-jooce), and not from Guildford after all?
(The award-winning Radio programme can be heard on Radio 4: Wed 12.27 pm)

Spend and Prosper A portrait of John Maynard Keynes
Hailed as the greatest economic scientist of our time, his theory of Employment, Interest and Money was responsible for much of the post-war affluence of many Western nations. What exactly were his ideas? And where have they gone today? Quentin Bell , J. K. Galbraith , Dame Ninette de Valois and others describe the man who was at the heart of the 1930s Bloomsbury set, who considered unemployment to be wasteful and cruel, and who advocated running economies in deficit in order to sustain a ' precious and precarious civilisation'. He succeeded personally and internationally. He married a Russian ballet dancer, started the Cambridge Arts Theatre with his own money, and founded the Arts Council. Narrator PAUL VAUGHAN
Film editor ELLIN HARE
Editor SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Producer CHRISTOPHER LA Fontaine

The first of three programmes
Tommy Farr - Boxer
In the 83 years since Bob Fitz simmons won the World Heavyweight Championship, no Briton has come closer to gaining the ultimate title than Tommy Farr , who in 1937 so nearly beat the ' Brown Bomber ' Joe Louis. TOMMY FARR relates to Frank Keat ing his early years mining in the Rhondda, to becoming Britain's heavyweight hero of the 30s.
Film editor
GEOFFREY BOTTERILL
Producer JEFF GODDARD (Fred Davis : Thursday 10.20 pm)

Peter Snow, Charles Wheeler , John Tusa and Peter Hobday present an informed account of what's happening in the world; news and weather from LINDA ALEXANDER , plus sports results from DAVID ICKE.
Producer JOHN HOLME
Directors ALEX SAWARD and JOHN WILKINSON Assignment editors
GEORGE WALKER and JOHN MAHONEY Editor GEORGE CAREY