Today's story is "The Magician and the Thistle-wit" by Mary Law McGregor
(Repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 pm)
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Britain has played a traditional power role in the Middle East, and still has major economic interests there. How can we promote and protect those interests in the 1970s?
Presented by Thomas Barman
with Rt Hon Michael Stewart, MP; Rt Hon Sir Alec Douglas-Home, MP; Rt Hon Reginald Maudling, MP; Sir William Luce; Rt Hon Anthony Nutting; Ian Smart

Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and Weather
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Competition for the BBC2 Trophy
Castleford (yellow with black trim) v Leeds (blue with white and amber band)
Castleford, Cup-holders and three times winners of the Floodlit Trophy, at home to the 1969 League Champions
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at the Ronnie Scott Club
Tonight: The Mike Westbrook Concert Band
Whilst he was an art student in 1958 Mike Westbrook first conceived the idea of forming a band to play the sort of jazz he believed in. He left college and came to live in London four years later, and spent the greater part of his time forming the nucleus of what was to become a powerful force in British jazz... Tonight's programme features Mike Westbrook's latest composition. Metropolis, based on his impressions of first visiting London.
Introduced by Ronnie Scott

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Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past 10 years from the movie capital stars Marlon Brando

Brando, perhaps Hollywood's greatest acting discovery of the fifties, plays Harrison Carter MacWhite, America's new and inexperienced ambassador to a South-East Asian state. MacWhite's failure to distinguish between the desire for independence and Communist infiltration almost involves his own country in a major confrontation.
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Perhaps never since the Reformation has the Christian religion passed through such a traumatic time as the last 12 months. Roman Catholic priests openly defying their bishops over the Pope's ruling on birth control; another revolt over the celibacy of the priesthood. The Church's year of change as seen by the cameras of European TV.
Introduced by Derek Hart

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Talk, argument, people, diversion

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