The experts discuss trees
(Crystal Palace, Wenvoe West, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield transmitters only)

Today's programme for the very young is Bird and Butterfly

by Michael Bond
with Beryl Cooke

'If you ask me, that's not just any old balloon, Grandpa,' said Mr Peck, 'I reckon it's something special. Look - there's a label tied on the side.' 'And a bag,' added Uncle Washington. 'Looks important to me,' agreed Uncle Ponty. 'I wonder what's in it?' And that's how Thursday, a waif-and-stray mouse, arrives

With Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves
Catch up with the latest news from the Blue Peter team just back from their adventures in Ceylon. While they were there, they saw lots of elephants but none quite like Lulu...

In part 13 of the film series based on the well-known story of the famous castaway, Friday and Robinson come to grips with the mutineers.

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

Ronald Allison spotlights events and people making the news around Town

A contest in speed and wits between families from all over the United Kingdom introduced by Robert Robinson
The Amey Family from Birmingham v The Trussell Family from Peterborough

by Robert Barr
Starring James Ellis, John Slater, Derek Waring
with Douglas Fielding

Pete Simmonds is out from prison, looking for the man who informed on him. But not only the informer has to live in fear of reprisal... Simmonds is strong, violent, and the witnesses at his trial were promised police protection on the day of his release...
(For cast list see Tuesday, page 32)

Starring The George Mitchell Singers
featuring John Boulter, Dai Francis, Tony Mercer
with The Television Toppers
and The Trio Athenee
Margaret Savage, Delia Wicks, Penny Jewkes, Pauline Whitaker, Les Rawlings

(John Boulter, Dai Francis, Tony Mercer and the Television Toppers are in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough; The George Mitchell Singers and Television Toppers in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the Congress Theatre, Eastbourne)

People, places and problems that matter most to Britain and the world, introduced by Robin Day with Panorama reporters Michael Charlton, Richard Kershaw, Robert MacNeil, Julian Pettifer

With Robert Dougall and the BBC's correspondents and reporters around the world
and Weather

Written by Ray Jenkins
Starring Jon Finch, Sarah Brackett

Every war has a flash-point, a fuse, a detonator - something, however small, that triggers it off. In 1914 it was an assassin's bullet at Sarajevo. What could trigger off an atomic war today? The Centaurans think they have the answer. And Simon, of all people, appears to be helping them...

by Hugh Leonard.
Starring Milo O'Shea as Bunjy Kennefick
with Anna Manahan as Mrs Kennefick

Bunjy is torn between loyalties at home and at the office. Should he be at the blessing of the bench or at the opening of the new office wing?
See page 12

A daily look at what matters in the news and out of it
Presented all this week by Kenneth Allsop with on-the-spot reports by Linda Blandford, Bernard Falk, David Lomax, Fyfe Robertson and Denis Tuohy and special contributions from Keith Kyle, Robert McKenzie and Olivier Todd including a round-up of the day's news in pictures
The Liberal Party Assembly starts at Brighton later this week and on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, there will be special 24 Hours reports

Products - ideas - techniques. The export drive: spotlight on the men, the methods, the markets that are earning Britain's living abroad

A Suffolk ship-builder with foreign order books full still finds he's facing a critical time through anomalies of the regional development map

John Pearse shows a group of friends how to 'pick' melodies in the style of four famous American folk guitarists. This week it's Mississippi John Hurt and 'My Creole Belle'

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