Today's story: "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" by Edward Lear.
(Repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
The Ministry of Transport, to help choose which roads to improve next, values the saving of one human life at £8,800. Why, in allocating resources within the health service or roads programme, should we price human life? What price should it be?
Presented by Alan Williams
with David Marquand, MP; Dr Henry Miller; Michael Zander
Reporting the world tonight
Michael Clayton, Peter Woods
and Weather
(Colour)
by Tom Wright
[Starring] Michael Gambon, Edith Macarthur
Guest stars Andrew Keir, Denis Quilley
To win the return of his stolen beasts Gavin Ker captures the son of the man who took them. The boy is to be hanged in three days if the beasts are not returned.
(Colour)
A quiz series
This week: Architecture
John Tusa asks Judy Hillman, Patrick Nuttgens, Sir John Betjeman for facts and opinions about buildings and towns
(Colour)
Tonight's film in this season of outstanding films of the past ten years from the movie capital stars Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau
Cowboy Jack Burns is an individualist at war with the jet age. Now the fences and highways have made his kind of life almost impossible, the lone cowboy makes a last defiant bid for freedom.
This intelligent, thought-provoking film, released by Universal in 1962, contains two outstanding performances - Kirk Douglas as Jack Burns and Walter Matthau as the Sheriff who becomes the reluctant agent of progress in bringing Burns to heel.
(Colour)
Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley
(Colour)
