Today's story is "Patrick" by Quentin Blake
(Story published by Jonathan Cape)

Again the North Sea reveals its surprises as Dr David Bellamy explores the submarine forest which surrounds our coast. Pollution is already threatening its diversity of animal life.
Natural history film from Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hamburg)

with Martin Bell reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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A Television Literary Quiz

"He owns six different split-level ranch-type houses made all of fieldstone in Livingston, and last year with his wife and his two little daughters, who are so beautiful that they are already under contract to Metro, and so brilliant that they should be in college..."

Who wrote it? Do you like it?
Alan Brien asks David Cecil, John Betjeman, Alison Lurie, Claire Tomalin

BBC2 crosses the Channel to bring you some of the best programmes from
ORTF2 - La Deuxieme Chaine. Introduced by Derek Hart

(Excerpts from A Midsummer Night's Dream)
One of the most outrageously imaginative of French Television directors, Jean-Christophe Averty, uses every known form of electronic effect to create a bewildering, dazzling, and totally unconventional version of Shakespeare.

Roberto Rossellini's epic film about the most famous of French kings begins when Louis is 22. Since the death of Louis XIII in 1643, the hated Cardinal Mazarin has been the real master of France. Mazarin is now on his deathbed and for the first time the young king can begin to take control of the destiny of France.

Presented by Martin Bell in London and Peter Woods in Paris The News as viewers of the ORTF2 network have seen it tonight

Relaxed late evening light entertainment in the French manner