Thursday is Ideas Day and the story is "Teeko the Squirrel" by Ron Riches
(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)

A duel of words and wit between Michael Trubshawe, Peter Haigh, Alan Pegler and Olga Franklin, Isobel Black, Myvanwy Jenn
Referee, Robert Robinson
(Colour)

Introduced by Brian Widlake, John Tusa, Alan Watson, Peter Ross and including a report on the big business of the business conventions in the USA.

This is a new 'seven billion dollar industry without a smoke-stack' with towns and cities rivalling one another to attract the big spending conventioneers. Not just Americans either. Increasingly international companies are meeting in the United States rather than anywhere else.

(Colour)

Six of Britain's top TV playwrights were given the opportunity to write the plays they had always wanted to write. The six, including Alun Owen, Barry Bermange, Keith Dewhurst, James Forsyth, and John Mortimer, have between them won about every award in the book.
John Hopkins's play Beyond the Sunrise is about two African politicians - one a modern politician, the other the guardian of traditional values - who are caught up in a conflict of loyalties which ends in bloodshed and sacrifice
with Johnny Sekka as The Chief, Calvin Lockhart as Akanu, Joseph O'Conor as Aston
John Hopkins - his career and his future - see pages 52-55
(Colour)

followed by Weather
(Colour)

with Joan Bakewell talking to Harold Pinter in the first of a new series of in-depth interviews
(Colour)