Today's story: "The Rain Puddle" by Adelaide Holl

A second start in mathematics

Endless belts, the London Underground, and why s, u, and m are all the same: classification of networks leads to the central idea of a matrix.
Introduced by Alan Tammadge

with Peter Woods
Weather

They have treasured memories of other times - firm views about present times.
In the race for today few of us spare enough time to listen - even to learn - from people who also know about yesterday, as they talk to the Man Alive reporters.

Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Jo Yablonski, his wife and his daughter, were killed in their Clarkesville home. Yablonski, a trade union leader in this troubled coal-mining area, stood out as a lone voice against unjust management and corrupt trade union practices. He was silenced by a gang of hired killers in the most savage moment of a long and angry history of industrial strife and corruption.
Sympathisers for his cause fight on against callous employers and a suspect union. Wild-cat strikers picketing for the resignation of their own union president carry guns. Union officials protest their innocence, and Yablonski's grown-up sons insist on their guilt.
The mood on both sides is one of anger and fear; and in the middle the vast majority of mineworkers who want only to earn their money in peace.

In the last programme of the series Johnnie Cradock gives his choice of wines and suggestions for wine storage.
(This week's recipe: page 13)

by Robert Sheckley
Dramatised by Jack Pulman
[Starring] Charles Tingwell as Mark Blaine, Dallia Penn as Marie Thorne, Donald Morley as Reject

A story based on the intriguing proposition that at some time in the future an ageing man might be able, for a price, to transfer his mind into a young body.
(Colour) [Repeat]

Tonight you can match your wits against Joyce Grenfell, Paul Jennings, Robin Ray
Guest musician Alexander Gibson
Chairman Joseph Cooper