The demand for new and better roads knows no limits. The annual budget for roads does. How does the Ministry of Transport choose which roads to work on next? How does it make sure it gets value for money?
Professor Alan Williams, University of York examines these questions with two members of the Ministry of Transport:
John Dole, Assistant Secretary, Highways Group
Geoffrey Searle, Head of the Highway Economics Unit

Reporting the world tonight
Michael Clayton and Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and Weather

by Roy Russell
[Starring] Michael Gambon, Edith Macarthur
Guest stars John Grieve, Aubrey Richards

The Quacksalvers who trick their way into the Slitrig and win the friendship and gratitude of the Kers are either to be pitied and helped, or rogues. Gavin Ker has to endure much before he finds out which.
(Colour)

A quiz series
This week: Design
John Tusa asks Shirley Conran, John Vaughan Sir Hugh Casson for facts and opinions about design and decoration

Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past ten years from the movie capital stars Tony Curtis, James Franciscus

A true story - with Tony Curtis giving one of his finest performances as a young Pima Indian who found that the hero's welcome he received as a result of being one of the six men who placed the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 was more than he could bear.
Previously shown in Britain with 15 minutes removed from the ending, this powerful film is now in its original version.