In the story chair, Charles Leno
Today's story is called "The Magician and The Dragon" by Donald Bisset
(The picturebook for next week is 'Alexander's Flycycle' by Elizabeth and Gerald Rose)
(to 11.20)
A series of four programmes.
The Japanese crashed into the modern world in a hundred years of pragmatic adaptation to Western ideas. The same realism found an answer to their population problem.
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.
(Colour)
A film series introduced by Bernard Venables.
Herbert Normington spinning for salmon on the River Lune in Westmorland in May. (Colour)
by Jack Gerson.
Starring Ewen Solon
with James Grant and Callum Mill
Johnny Cain is back again and Smith's holiday in Switzerland develops into another case for the investigation branch.
Tonight: Jack Nicklaus, U.S.A. v. Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentina at Royal Birkdale.
For the first time in their careers the British Open champions of 1966 and 1967 meet in head-on competition in the seventh of this thirteen-match series.
Prize-money: $4,000 to the winner; $3,000 to the loser
(Colour)
for the Wills Trophies
Direct from the Empire Pool, Wembley.
Tonight's competition will decide The Men's World Champion, The Ladies' World Champion, The World Pairs Champion, The World Ice Dance Champions
The end of the Olympic season is usually the occasion when several top skaters from the international scene become professionals, either as trainers or ice show performers. In tonight's programme you can see some of the stars from this year's Winter Olympics and Amateur World Championships make their first bid for a professional world title.
Organised by the International Professional Skating Association
(Colour)
(Colour)
by Richard Matheson.
Dramatised by Hugh Leonard.
(Colour)
with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley.
Wait and see (Asquith)
(Colour)