Today's story is 'The Fox and the Crow'
Reporting the world tonight Peter Woods and the reporters and 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.
In a return match
Ray Alan, Elizabeth MacLennan, Frank Windsor
encounter
John Junkin, Vivien Heilbron, Terence Alexander
In the chair Brian Redhead
(from Manchester)
Chinese gold smugglers love it, gnomes in Zurich graft for it, Rockefeller doesn't think about it, Soho strippers strip for it, housewives shop with it, and some never have it... money.
The Money Programme searches out the stories where money manipulates, corrupts, and enhances the world we live in.
by Christopher Marlowe
Prospect Theatre Company in the 1969 Edinburgh Festival production recorded at the Piccadilly Theatre, London
with Ian McKellen as King Edward
(Putting Elizabethan drama on the box: page 9)
Michael Dean talks to author and traveller Laurens van der Post who was a prisoner of the Japanese on the day on which the first atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima. In a new book, Night of the New Moon, published today, he reflects on the issue which continues to trouble the conscience of mankind.