Produced and presented by Saleem Shahed
(from Birmingham: repeated on Wednesday at 12.25 pm)

by Margot Tyrie
An interpretation of Psalm 104
From the Priory Church of St Laurence, Blackmore, Essex
Gelineau Psalm sung by the Choir of St Laurence, Blackmore

Introduced by David Richardson

John Cherrington reports on increasing farm income from recreational use of land.

(from Birmingham)

Weather for farmers

In 1769 John Parker brought his new bride Theresa to live at Saltram House, near Plymouth. Their letters reveal the story of a tragically short marriage and the house recalls their hopes and ambitions and their way of life.
(Book: page 12)

What do tourists buy to remind them of a European holiday?

Antiques with Max Robertson
Customers Gillian Toll, Peter Arne
(from Bristol)
(Books: page 12)

Twenty-five years of international music-making
Michael Flanders introduces something of the gaiety, colour and tunefulness of the International Music Eisteddfod which this year celebrates its silver jubilee.

Introduced by Derek Fowlds
with Christie, Prasanna Rao
Charlie Atom, Barrie Gosney, William Shearer

by Alan and Joan Root

Rain falling on the high, dry Chyulu Hills of Kenya filters through the lava soil until it emerges as cool, running springs at Mzima. Zebra and elephant visit the oasis to drink, but this unusual African portrait is more concerned with the animals that live at the Springs. It is a strange world in which frogs climb trees, birds swim, turtle and crocodile feed side by side, and the lumbering hippopotamus takes on a new grace in the unique underwater photography of Alan Root.
Commentary by Anthony Smith
(From Bristol: first shown on BBC2)

What should we be aiming at? What can we hope for? Bernard Levin probes some hopes and schemes for the future

This week: The Theatre
Alan Plater points to some hopeful developments, describes what he wants to see come of them and discusses his ideas and ideals
with Peter Shaffer, The Ven Edward Carpenter, Baroness Lee and Kit Pedler

Stories in the Bible told with pictures
Adapted for television and produced by Molly Cox

by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, and Clive Dunn
featuring John Laurie as Pte Frazer, James Beck as Pte Walker, Arnold Ridley as Pte Godfrey and Ian Lavender as Pte Pike

Paul Newman stars in the third of a short season of his greatest films, tonight with Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Jackie Gleason

Tense, exciting, captivating are not adjectives one would associate with the game of pool - a sort of American snooker - not, that is, until one has seen "The Hustler."

Paul Newman, in one of his finest performances, is the ambitious young pool shark and Jackie Gleason the ageing master he is determined to defeat in this outstanding drama set in the sordid, twilight world of the pool hall.
Minnesota Fats really exists. He dominated the American professional billiards circuit throughout the 30s and 40s. Since "The Hustler," he has become a minor celebrity playing exhibition matches up and down the country.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

with Robert Dougall
and Weather

"For a country to have a great writer," a character in one of Solzhenitsyn's novels remarks, "is like having another government." Alexander Solzhenitsyn is such a writer. Ever since the publication in 1962 of his first novel, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," to the literary event a few weeks ago when his latest novel "August 1914" reached the West, Solzhenitsyn has been called "the living conscience of his nation." In 1970 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A reluctant public figure, he is above all a great writer in the classic Russian tradition of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, writing about human suffering and the essential spiritual power of man. But for the official Soviet party-line he is "an alien element."

Tonight's dramatised documentary compilation tells the story of Solzhenitsyn's trials and tribulations in the labour camps and his single-handed battle against the official suppression of his works. It explores his aims as a writer and a humanist. It is based on documentary texts and extracts from his books.

Solzhenitsyn is played by Freddie Jones

(The world's greatest writer - rejected in his own country: page 3)

A series of discussions between leading Britons, Europeans and other international figures on the future of the European Community - and how it could affect Britain.

'The British... and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some of their affairs for the mutual and general advantage.' (1941)
Churchill said that if Britain had to choose between the United States and Europe, we would choose America. But if we now choose Europe and the Common Market, how will our relations with America be affected? And what is the American attitude towards the European Community? Brian Widlake flies to Washington with Lord Harlech, former British Ambassador to the United States, to discuss these questions with George Ball, former US Under-Secretary of State.