Today's story is "Magpie builds a nest" (trad) retold by Michael Rosen.
Presenters this week, Julie Stevens, Johnny Silvo
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
and Weather
When an arrogant young Army officer makes an error of judgment while trying to arrest a neighbouring rancher, the men of the High Chaparral are caught in the middle of a full-scale attack.
This week's programme in the series on Man and Science today.
"It was a memorable experience of being attacked. Fear, surprise, and I felt a certain degree of satisfaction in that he stopped attacking me when I behaved submissively. I had a strange feeling I was dealing with a very highly evolved animal, and in a sense it was a privilege."
It was while filming his work on wolf behaviour that the attack on Dr Fox occurred. He's one of a group of scientists appearing in tonight's programme who are studying the fast-vanishing packs of wolves in the wild. They are trying to penetrate a veil of legend and superstition: to understand more of the wolves' behaviour, what of value they feed on, and whether it would ever be possible to manage them in the wild.
Yet this work is a race against time. Although on the US government's list of endangered species, the wolf is still hunted in Alaska, the only place with a viable population of some 3,000 animals. With the Russians hunting their few remaining packs as a risk to agriculture, the wolf is yet another species in danger of extinction.
A nonstop sing-in of familiar tunes with Kiki Dee, Heathmore, Lois Lane, Jackie Lee, Mike Redway, Tom Saffery, Andee Silver, Danny Street and the Fine Tooth Combs
Steam and gas and electricity, crime and grime and industry, but out of it all came, thank goodness, Architecture - public buildings, big houses for industrialists, and garden suburbs.
In the third of four programmes Sir John Betjeman looks at the work of Alfred Waterhouse and Norman Shaw.
Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley
(Colour)
