Today's story: "The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark" by Jill Tomlinson
(Repeated: BBC1, BBC Wales at 4.20)

Introduced by Arthur Garratt

The most famous statue in the world, dug up in a field in 1820. For over a century she s been the symbol of feminine perfection - this mutilated giantess with a figure measuring 43-37-47. One contemporary report says that she was found intact. So what happened to her arms? What did she look like before her amputation? And under what curious circumstances did the signed corner of her plinth vanish completely?
Yvonne Mitchell, the actress and writer, visits the Louvre in Paris and tries to piece together the many contradictions that make up the story of the Venus de Milo.

The people, the stories, and the action behind the one commodity no one can do without - money.
Together with the Money-Minder

"The isolation the ancientness the changing light on hills and valleys. In this Celtic-Scandinavian kingdom time does not matter."

In this week's programme Sir John Betjeman revisits the Isle of Man which he has known and loved since student days, and finds that the magnetism of the past is still very much present.

Television's fastest spectacular bringing back the Magic of the Minstrels
Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
featuring John Boulter, Dai Francis, Margaret Savage, Andy Cole, Peter Kaye
with The Television Toppers
and Les Rawlings, Elspeth Hands, Delia Wicks, Les Want, Jean McGuire, Benny Garcia

(The Black and White Minstrels are appearing in "Magic of the Minstrels" at the Victoria Palace, London, and in "The Black and White Minstrel Show" at the New Theatre, Hull)

A special edition on Human Rights Day and on the eve of the 25th Anniversary of UNICEF including a film The Rights of a Child art and comments from children in England and America.
Guest chairman, Des Wilson

Starring Nikolai Cherkasov

Eisenstein's individually composed images, Prokofiev's striking score, and Cherkasov's magnificent performance in the title role make Ivan the Terrible the greatest achievement of Eisenstein's distinguished career.
In Part 1 young Ivan incurs the wrath of the landowners while trying to unite Russia and finds himself in a precarious position as a result of intrigue by the Boyars and the hatred of the all-powerful Staritzky family.

(Eisenstein - genius in disgrace; This Week's Films: page 11)
(Part 2 next Thursday)