Wednesday is Pets Day and Brian Cant tells his own story Messing About on the River
(repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)

Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by Weather
(Colour)

Pieter Bruegel, the elder, died 400 years ago. He lived and worked in the Netherlands in the middle of the 16th century and was one of the great witnesses of his age. He described the lives of ordinary working men and women in town and country. In his paintings of religious subjects he placed biblical events in contemporary contexts and so described the facts of oppression and religious persecution. He showed realistic activity taken to fantastic extremes and described the fantastic in completely realistic terms. His terrifying vision of 'The Triumph of Death' anticipated by three-and-a-half centuries the familiar landscapes of modern war
A film by Paul Haesaerts for the Flemish Service of Belgian Radio and Television
English version and commentary by Michael Dibb
(Colour)

The cry used to be, 'We've struck oil!', but these days it's 'Gas Below!'
An award-winning film

(Colour)

John Spencer (present world snooker champion) v. Ray Reardon (former Welsh amateur snooker champion)

Both players have coped with top quality opposition to get to the final. Can Spencer establish his superiority in this TV snooker series as well as in the more formal snooker world, or has the underdog Reardon still got more surprises for us? The prize, the BBC2 Pot Black Trophy, will be presented by David Nixon.
Introduced by Keith Macklin
(from BBC Midlands)
(Colour)

Rowan and Martin invite you to laugh-a-second-time at their Laugh-In
This week's star guest Don Rickles
and featuring Judy Carne, Arte Johnson, Ruth Buzzi, Henry Gibson, Goldie Hawn, Dave Madden, Gary Owens, Alan Sues, Jo Anne Worley, J.J. Barry and Chelsea Brown

(Colour)

[Starring] Stanley Holloway
Stanley Holloway reminisces about the early days of his career and the times when less fortunate colleagues stormed around the countryside performing in barns, gas-lit halls, and on village greens. Of course both 'Sam' and 'Albert' have something to say

(Colour)

by Nikos Kazantzakis
A second chance to see this dramatisation in six parts by Jack Pulman
To save the village Manolios confessed to the murder of Youssoufaki, and to save him Katerina also confessed. The Agha killed her but Manolios was saved by the discovery of Hussein's guilt. While talking to his friends, Manolios has committed himself to God's service
(shown on Saturday)

(Colour)

followed by Weather
(Colour)

Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley
(Colour)