Today's story is 'The Turnip' by Julian Tuwin
Presenters this week Diane Dorgan, Rick Jones

Ten programmes about Europe's discovery of the outside world.

'What can be more difficult than to guide a ship engulfed, where only water and heaven may be seen?' How did the early explorers guide their ships and what kind of ship did they make the voyages in?

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

The High Chaparral is the home of a pioneer family in the newly won West; is the prize the settlers must hold against outlaws and Indians; and spells adventure in the wild Arizona territory of 1870.

Billy Blue faces the biggest - and most dangerous-test of his life when he is challenged to a showdown by a professional and ruthless young gunfighter.

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

Each of us eats about half a ton of food a year, of which 3 lbs is likely to be chemical additives. They are included by food manufacturers to colour, flavour, preserve and improve their products. In the last year three have been banned; Ponceau MX, a colouring, brominated vegetable oil, an emulsifier, and cyclamates, which were used as sweeteners. Their withdrawal has heightened a growing uncertainty about the use of additives.
Are they necessary? Are they safe? How are we protected?
As well as trying to answer these questions the programme reveals some surprising facts about our so-called 'natural' foods.
Introduced by Christopher Chataway

From the League of Champions tonight's programme features Rex Williams v
Kingsley Kennerley
An all-Midland affair in the second round of this series. Williams holds the top break of 50 to date. Can it be topped?
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)

By the time Alexandra Tolstoy was born her father had written most of his great novels. She is his last surviving child and the twelfth of his 13 children.

In this film she movingly recalls the years she was Tolstoy's secretary and confidant. Life for the Tolstoy family on their country estate south of Moscow was often turbulent. Alexandra stood in the middle of the battle which developed between her parents, and tried to protect her father against the excesses of his wife's hysteria. In 1910, tired and sick, Tolstoy took the step he had contemplated for so many years - and left for the Caucasus to search for peace and solitude. He fell ill on the way and was put to bed in a station-master's cottage.
Alexandra was with him during those last few days as he died.
(Tolstoy's daughter talks of her father: page 8)

Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley