Thursday is Ideas Day and the story is Henrietta's Hat by Mabel Watts

(repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 pm)

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 Fyfe Robertson, Colin Gordon, Terence Brady and Wendy Craig, Deborah Watling, Charlotte Bingham
Referee Robert Robinson
(Colour)

The news and the men behind the news in the world of money, introduced by Brian Widlake, John Tusa, Alan Watson, Peter Ross

(Colour)

The eternal triangle can change shape but always has three sides.
[Starring] Denholm Elliott as Walter, John Ronane as Eric, Lynn Farleigh as Marie
(Colour)

followed by Weather
(Colour)

with Joan Bakewell talking to Clive Barnes, Drama Critic of the New York Times

(Colour)