Today's story is 'Fella and Spot' Written and told by Elizabeth Hunt
Presenters this week Miranda Connell, Brian Cant

for the Guinness Trophy
Fourth day
Introduced by Peter West

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
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A pioneer settler and his two sons fighting to keep their hard-won cattle land in the lawless territory of California during the closing years of last century.

Jelly is badly mauled by a cougar and to save his life Murdoch and Scott must find medical aid quickly. But in the nearest town they find that the only doctor is behind bars accused of being a dangerous phoney. Just how dangerous they have yet to discover...
There's a touch of romance about the settings for the Lancer stories. They are largely filmed on the 23,000-acre estate Rancho San Carlos, created in California by a wealthy Englishman in the 1920s. He lived there in baronial style stocking the acres with wild boar imported from Russia which were hunted by stars like Clark Gable, Ward Bond, and Robert Taylor.

This week's programme in the series on Man and Science Today.

In the 24 hours that make up this Monday, about 620 people in these islands will die of heart disease. The figure for the equivalent Monday in August 1900, even allowing for the change in the size of the population, would have been half that. Over the last 70 years heart disease has become an epidemic.
Something must have changed: perhaps it's our habits or perhaps it's in our environment. What has changed, and what we can do about it, is what this programme sets out to discover.

A non-stop sing-in of familiar tunes with Kiki Dee, Heathmore, Lois Lane, Jackie Lee, Mike Redway, Tom Saffery, Andee Silver, Danny Street, The Fine Tooth Combs

George Pearson, now 95, grand old man of silent films and a leading British film director of his day, was a mere 93 when this programme was made.
He movingly recalls some of his early years: seeing moving pictures for the first time more than 70 years ago; making some of his first films during the Great War; turning Betty Balfour into a star in the early 1920s...
The programme includes excerpts from some of Pearson's films: Christmas Day in the Workhouse (1914), Nothing Else Matters (1920), Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep (1922), Reveille (1924)

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