Today's story is 'The Ha Ha Bird' by Penelope Janic

for the Guinness Trophy
First day

The final two hours' play from Headingley, Leeds

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

An 'incomplete' word game
In a display of unparalleled lexicological dexterity, words are built up letter by letter and the two teams accuse each other of inadvertently completing words or of having no word to complete.
John Junkin, Vivien Heilbron, Terence Alexander
encounter
Ray Alan, Elizabeth MacLennan, Frank Windsor
In the chair Brian Redhead
(from Manchester) (see page 10)

Japan's fantastic economic boom has created a secondary explosion... organised leisure.
With millions of Japanese finding spare time on their hands and spare money in their pockets, their flirtation with the West has been intensified.
The Money Programme discovers a world where model girls have plastic surgery as a matter of course, where baseball is more of an obsession than in America... and unearths the Japanese equivalent of Bingo! All part of one of the world's fastest growing industries... leisure.

by William Shakespeare
Prospect Theatre Company in the 1969 Edinburgh Festival production with Ian McKellen as King Richard

In the year 1398, King Richard II arbitrarily exiles Henry Bolingbroke and the Duke of Norfolk, then confiscates the property of John of Gaunt (Bolingbroke's father), when the old man dies. Bolingbroke invades England and Richard is eventually forced to surrender to him and is later murdered at Pomfret Castle.

(Colour)
(McKellen - 'the greatest Shakespearean actor alive': cover story on page 6)

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