Today's story is "The Man Who Collected Hats" by Joanne Cole
Over a quarter of the total public purse is actually spent by Local Authorities. Plymouth spends £30-million a year. Where does the money come from? How is it spent? To what extent is Plymouth independent of Whitehall?
Presented by Jim Sharpe, Nuffield College, Oxford
Reporting the world tonight
Michael Clayton, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and Weather
[Starring] Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Gambon, Edith Macarthur
Guest stars Joseph Greig, John Stone, Gordon Richardson
Gavin Ker defends his bonded tenant against torture and a monstrous charge.
(Colour)
A quiz series
This week: Television
John Tusa asks Michael Frayn, Robert Robinson, Lord Willis for facts and opinions about programmes past and present.
Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past ten years from the movie capital stars Doris Day, Rock Hudson with Tony Randall
Motherhood, space travel, the Confederate flag - just a few aspects of 'the American Way of Life' gleefully guyed in Lover Come Back.
Produced in 1962 by Universal - and one of the most successful of the Doris Day-Rock Hudson comedies - tonight's film provides a humorous and highly irreverent look behind the scenes in Madison Avenue, at the ad-men who sell us the crackle in our cornflakes.
Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley