Today's story is "The Secret Present" by John Yoeman
Illustrated by Quentin Blake

played over The Old Course, St Andrews
The all-important third round - the one the tournament-hardened professional golfers fear - the round which for someone will provide the springboard to tomorrow's success.
The closing stages of today's vital play are introduced by Harry Carpenter direct from St Andrews.

Reporting the world tonight Peter Woods and the BBC News correspondents
and Weather

Journey through Brazil, Argentina, and Chile with Johnny Morris

'Rio is not so much a city as a landscape with buildings and white surf and beaches ....A boisterous, vigorous society where the individual is still very much on his own..."
To the Latin-Americans all Europeans are 'gringos' and, like most tourists in Rio de Janeiro, Johnny Morris visits Copacabana Beach, Sugar Loaf Mountain, and a favella, one of the mountain-side squatter villages in the centre of the city. He also discovers a pavement artist with a difference and a park full of cats.
(From Bristol)
(Johnny Morris - the man with the loose-leaf passport: page 14)

by Anthony Trollope
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Simon Raven
Starring Colin Blakely, Rachel Gurney

London in the 1870s is gripped in a fever of speculation. The latest figure to emerge at the centre of this scene is Augustus Melmotte, a man reputed to possess a large fortune.

Are tower blocks obsolete?
Alison and Peter Smithson are British architects with an international reputation.
Currently working on a new development in Poplar, they demonstrate their belief in a practical alternative to tower blocks; a substitute, in their opinion, as new and relevant for London as the first Georgian square.

A series of personal choices of prose and poetry with Judi Dench
Given before an invited audience at the Lamda Theatre, London.
Alan Bennett might have been an Oxford don but for a quirk of fate which catapulted him into the world of 'showbiz.' This is reflected in his choice of poetry and prose which he reads with Judi Dench. Not that there's much high academic seriousness - hilarity keeps breaking through.

Highlights of the vital third round
Introduced by Harry Carpenter

Michael Dean looks back over the week with William Rushton, James Cameron
and other people, other views