Today's story is called "The Pencil and the Ruler" by Donald Bisset.
(to 11.20)

First day's play at Lord's.
(On BBC-1 and BBC Wales from 6.15)
(to 18.15)

Six programmes to stimulate the creative use of materials familiar in everyday life.

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.
(Colour)

Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motor cycling.

The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races are the fastest and most famous events of their kind in the world. In sixty-one years the lap record has climbed from forty to just over 108 miles an hour. This year the target is 'the ton plus ten'.
TT veterans Geoff Duke and Stanley Woods join Mike Hailwood on the Wheelbase reporting team to examine future prospects for motor cycle sport in Britain. (Colour)

Hong Kong is Britain's biggest colony and the sterling area's brightest success story, but last year came the riots and people wondered whether China had called in the bailiffs while the lease still had thirty years to run. The three and a half million Chinese, crowded into their capitalist haven of Hong Kong, free from Maoist economics, depend as much on food supplies bought from the mainland as Peking depends on the £200 million or more of valuable foreign exchange provided.
John Tusa reports.

Blue and Manolito are allowed to go and buy cattle, but nothing goes according to plan.
(Colour)

by Henry James
(Shown on Saturday)
(Colour)

(Colour)

with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King and Sheridan Morley.
(Colour)