Presenters this week Carol Chell, Johnny Ball

What budgets should a company prepare? John Marsh discusses this with Jack Hardy and Sam Howell and highlights a serious scheduling problem.
Introduced by Graham Turner

Reporting the world tonight
Michael Clayton and Peter Woods
With Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore, and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and Weather

Joe is made foreman of the High Chaparral and does the job well. He makes only one mistake - but it turns out to be a very dangerous one indeed.

This week's programme in the series on Man and Science Today.

We're all aware of the damage we're doing to our natural surroundings yet we seem powerless to stop it. 1970 is European Conservation Year - 21 countries trying to get people to care for their environment before it's too late.
But what are the problems facing modern Britain? We have a precious coastline - a coast that we all use, enjoy, and ill-treat.
Everywhere we find dismal and often tragic evidence of how with an increasing population and powerful technology we are demanding too much of our coast. By failing to work with nature we are rapidly degrading our surroundings.
Tonight's programme looks at the work of biologists trying to understand the harm we are doing to our coast and to the seas around our shores. They believe we must find ways of dealing with the problem before it has disastrous consequences for all of us.

Bernard Braden reads from the works of Stephen Leacock

Stephen Leacock, although he lived most of his life in Canada and was for many years Professor of Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, was born 101 years ago in the south of England. Bernard Braden assumes Leacock's role of lecturer and takes a look at the lighter side of life as Leacock saw it.

Out of every hundred children born today, one will prove to be mentally handicapped and may never become fully independent or self-supporting.
How is the news first broken to the parents? What can be done to develop these children? How much progress will they make? Should they be looked after at home or in an institution? What are the problems of living with a backward child?
These are some of the questions discussed in tonight's programme by doctors and parents.

Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow,
Sheridan Morley
followed by News Summary and Weather