Today's story is "John Goes to School" by Peter Wiltshire
Presenters this week Miranda Connell, John White

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

Johnny Rondo, a former gun-fighter, tries to forget the past and make a new life for himself and his 17-year-old son at the High Chaparral. But a man with Johnny's reputation cannot lay down his guns that easily, and three men seeking revenge arrive to challenge him.

This week's programme in the series on man and science today.

Cosmetics, the advertisements assure us, can make us more beautiful, more alluring than ever. We don't entirely believe them, but the very hope that even some of the claims may be true sends us out to spend £100 million yearly on cosmetics - costing as much as £56 a pot.
But, apart from hope, just what are we buying with our money? Are moisturisers really effective in nurturing the skin? Is there really anything that can be done to arrest balding in men?
Tonight's programme, the first of a new series, examines some of the claims made by the manufacturers and looks at the complex industry surrounding them.

Lauded as one of the most romantic cities in the world - but how does it look through the eyes of a child?
Gerald Harrison gets the impressions of Liverpool children while on an Educational Cruise calling at Venice.
(from Manchester)

From the League of Champions John Spencer v Ray Reardon
After 14 games the names of Spencer and Reardon come through to the Final. Can Reardon retain his Pot Black title against Spencer, from whom he took the World title two months ago?
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)

In the 1850s English architects tried to find a style that would go with steam and glass and cast iron and they chose Gothic. In 1850 Gothic was the equivalent of what was 'contemporary' in 1950. In the second of four programmes Sir John Betjeman looks at the work of William Butterfield, G. E. Street and Gilbert Scott

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