Today's story: 'The Day I Bathed Seven Chairs' by Janet Browning
Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.
(to 11.20)

Bridge building, eye surgery, the manufacture of micro-circuits... all these fields and many others may benefit from laser technology.
Introduced by Professor Oliver Heavens
with Dr. Zoltan Kiss, David Hunt, Desmond Smart, David Beach, David Hardwick, Bernard Gonsalves

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

by John Lucarotti
[Starring] Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Gambon, Joseph Brady, Edith MacArthur
Guest star, Kenneth Farrington

Mario Vecchi, a young Italian physician, tries to save the life of Gavin's friend Andrew Johnstone. The patient dies, and the Johnstones demand Vecchi's life as a murderer. Gavin seeks protection for Vecchi from the law, but will he get it? Or will he have to admit that on the Border violence can be met only by violence?
(Colour)

A film series introduced by Bernard Venables

Float-fishing on the Bridgewater Canal in Somerset on a summer's day.

There is no more exciting sight to the angler than the cluster of oily bubbles which come breaking at the surface-a clue that the tench has at last been attracted through the mud-bottomed, weed jungle to where your baitis resting. Tentative mouthings round your hook follow. Then the atmosphere of the lazy late summer's day alters from the tense to the intense. As the angler strikes, the behaviour of the lethargic tench is transformed to a bold and cunning strategy. The fish plunges deep, using the weeds to try to lose the hook or break the line; success for the fishermen is never sure until the glistening tench is safely landed.
(Colour)

by Clifford Simak
Dramatised by Clive Exton
With David Buck as Jon Hoff, Ronald Lacey as Joe Manx and Owen Berry as Joshua

A community of the future - puritan, superstitious, inward-looking - confined within The Ship. They have been there for generations, and have long forgotten whatever purpose put them there. They worship meaningless symbols with elaborate ritual. They know that one day they will feel a tremor in the ship, but only one young man has inherited the secret of what must be done when the tremor comes.
(Colour)

Weltspiegel, Continents sans Visa A Toda Plana, Estafeta, Realta
These are just some of the television programmes in both West and East Europe which regularly contribute to Europa. The programme has been called a European window on the world. Each week it looks at the stories and issues that have informed, entertained, and sometimes angered viewers across a continent.
It examines their attitudes and prejudices and, in so doing, perhaps recognises some of our own.
Introduced this week by Jack Pizzey

with Ella Fitzgerald and Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Two great singers and a famous guitarist entertain with songs and melodies old and new in a show which provides a perfect setting for all three.
(Colour)

(Colour)

with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)