Today's story is 'The Language of Flowers' by Anna Home
Presenters this week Mary Miller, Johnny Ball
Trade with the East brought Europeans face to face for the first time with the developed civilisations of India, China, and Japan. What happened when they met?
Reporting: 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
including the BBC Campaign Report
David Dimbleby, Ludovic Kennedy and the BBC Election team with Hardiman Scott and David Holmes present the news and opinions of the General Election Campaign
and Weather
Buck meets a very attractive woman and falls in love. But she is not everyone's idea of a perfect lady-especially as she can out-shoot, outride, and very nearly outeuss any man on the ranch.
Why do women in more primitive places seem to have babies so much more easily than they do in England? Do women everywhere have cravings during the first few months of pregnancy? Do they all get tired towards the end? Do they all need to rest afterwards?
These are just some of the questions raised in this week's programme, which compares pregnancy and childbirth in five different places: in Colne, Lancashire; Esher, Surrey; Buk in the Highlands of New Guinea; Andheri in the hills of India; and the fishing village of Taipo in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
Written and produced by John Percival
From the League of Champions tonight's programme features John Pulman v Ray Reardon
Current world champion Reardon takes on the runner-up to establish who comes out top in League 2 before the semi-finals start.
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)
On behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party
(also on BBC1 and BBC Wales)
plus the BBC Campaign Report and Weather
Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley
