A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'Family Tree' by Jean and Gareth Adamson
Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.
(Colour)
(to 11.20)

Five programmes that look at France through French eyes

with the Divanac'h family, Lesconil

Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News.

Followed by The Weather

(Colour)

A duel of words and wit between
The Resident Gentlemen

Kenneth Williams, Denis Norden, Michael Trubshaweand The Challenging Ladies

Katie Boyle, Sylvia Syms, Penny Spencer Referee, Robert Robinson
(Colour)

Looking at the news and the men behind the news in the world of money
Introduced by Brian Widlake, John Tusa
with Graham Turner, Peter Ross
(Colour)

by Friedrich Durrenmatt
translated by Robert David Macdonald
[Starring] John Gielgud and Alec Guinness
John Gielgud is in 'Forty Years On' at the Apollo Theatre, London
See cover story on page 3
(Colour)

Horizon - Man and Science Today

When this programme was first screened in January, The Times reviewed it as a 'fascinating nightmare of the locusts... women rushing into their fields, flapping pieces of cloth, made a macabre but marvellous ballet.'
A plague of locusts: few natural disasters provoke more distaste, more horror, more fear, than this great biblical threat. But now, once again, locusts are on the move. From India to West Africa and from the Mediterranean to Tanzania there is a real threat of plague.
The desert locust has been in recession for several years, but for some two years now it has been breeding quietly, unseen, in the vastness of the Empty Quarter in Southern Arabia, in the southern Sahara, and along the shores of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Huge swarms appeared last spring and summer and by the autumn the experts were prophesying the worst plague for many years-a plague that could threaten one-fifth of the land surface of the world and threaten the food supplies of millions of people.
A Horizon unit spent several weeks filming at the 'storm-centre' of the plague in Ethiopia.
(Colour)

A progress report live from the G.P.O. Tower, London, on the fifth day of the Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race in which more than 300 competitors are trying to win £60,000 in prizes for the fastest and most enterprising flights between London and New York.
See colour feature on page 31
(Colour)

by Anthony Trollope
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Gurney

Melmotte has been elected to the House of Commons. He has been given two days to produce £80,000 to pay for Pickering, and is trying to persuade Marie to make over her fortune to him.
(Shown on Saturday)
(Colour)

(Colour)

The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)