With Sue MacGregor World Assembly on Ageing: by the year 2000, there'll be nearly 600 million people in the world over 60. MARGARET PERCY reports on the United Nations Assembly being held this week in Vienna to look at the plight of old people the world over.
Round and Round the Garden: ANNE SUTER reflects on our national obsession with gardening. The Animal Family by RANDALL JARRELL abridged in six parts by PAT MCLOUGHLIN
Read by Nigel Hawthorne 1: The Hunter
There was once a lonely hunter who wistfully remembered a happy family life with his dead parents. And then one day he heard a mermaid singing ...'
(Music: Honegger's Pastorale d'ete)
Editor WYN KNOWLES