Today's story is 'The Big Rain' by Francoise

The Open University begins its degree courses in January 1971. They are based upon correspondence packages, integrated with series of television and radio programmes produced by the BBC, residential courses, and a regionally organised tutorial and counselling system.
What sort of courses will the University provide? How are they being prepared? And what kind of students are they intended for?

Barrie Gill covers the Spanish Grand Prix.
There were only 16 places on the grid at Jarama last Sunday for the second round of the 1970 Formula One World Championship. Ten 'seeded' drivers, including five former world champions, were guaranteed a race but for the first time top men like McLaren, Siffert, and Andretti had to compete in practice for the remaining six places at the start. Race organisers say that drivers and cars have become too expensive to have an unlimited number on the grid. Will this spoil the spectacle and reduce the public interest in Grand Prix racing?

by George Eliot
A second chance to see this dramatisation in six parts by Alexander Baron

(Maxine Audley is in "Conduct Unbecoming" at the Queen's Theatre, London)

A Portrait of George Eliot by Don Taylor
with Sheila Allen as Marian Evans

Marian Evans from Nuneaton became world-famous in 1859, at the age of 39, as George Eliot, the author of Adam Bede. In the next 20 years she wrote six more novels, among them The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. But fame came to her comparatively late in life.
This film, first shown in Omnibus on the 150th anniversary of her birth, shows what happened to the ugly girl from the Midlands before she became a great novelist.
(Sheila Allen is an associate member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

A film from Czechoslovakia starring Michal Pospisil, Hanus Bor

The adventures of a group of boys who steal an airship and make a forced landing on an unknown island.