Today's story is 'Ring-a-Roses' by Raymond Briggs

An introduction to the social sciences

Although we may not know quite what to think about situations we aren't used to, that doesn't stop us having views about them. But would we admit that these views were wrong?
Introduced by Derek Hart
(Linked with Radio 3, Study: Fridays, 7.0 pm)
This series with the correspondence course, provides useful preparatory experience for intending Open University students.
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Reporting the world tonight

John Timpson and Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and Weather

A duel of words and wit between Antonia Fraser, Michael Hordern, Jonathan Cecil and Michael Trubshawe, Patricia Cutts, Lynne Bretonn
Referee Robert Robinson

Looking at the news and the men behind the news in the world of money
Introduced by Brian Widlake, Alan Watson, John Tusa including a colour film about Development Areas. Is the Development Area policy working and does it justify the public money we spend on it? North Devon is one of the development areas, and Alan Watson has been there to discover the effects of Government policy. Does it remain an area of double cream and depopulation, unemployment and natural beauty, or is heavy industry about to descend? Do North Devonians know what they want? Can they find a compromise between 'grass and brass'?

Each Thursday one of the Line-Up team makes a personal choice
Tonight: Joan Bakewell talks to the international pianist Fou Ts'ong who, in the words of one critic, 'has played himself steadily and continuously into the front rank of his generation's pianists'