Today's story is "The Bird with the Broken Wing" (traditional)
With Carol Chell, Johnny Ball

(to 19.00)

Introduced by Derek Hart

(Linked with Radio 3, Friday 7.0 pm. For publication and NEC correspondence course see page 12)

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.

Margaret Morris is 79. Her name, like Isadora Duncan's, is synonymous with dance innovation. A life-long vegetarian, she behaves, in her own words, as if she were 25. She talks of her youth but also of the here and now.

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

There are today thousands of British citizens who are separated from their wives and families, refused permission to work and refused admission to Britain. They hold British passports and may be forgiven for asking 'What are they worth?' Those Asians in East Africa who chose to become British citizens understandably now call themselves 'the forgotten people.' The East African governments tell them they are not wanted - despite having lived there most of their lives. Both Labour and Conservative immigration policies have denied them automatic right of entry to Britain - despite passports which once guaranteed exactly that.
The East African governments say it's not their responsibility; the British government says it has the situation under review. Tonight Man Alive looks at the plight of these British citizens and discusses some of the points the government's latest review will have to consider.

(Colour)

From the League of Champions tonight featuring John Spencer v David Taylor
The current World Snooker Champion and holder of the Pot Black Trophy receives his first challenge in this new series. His opponent, David Taylor, makes his debut on Pot Black and is a former World Amateur Champion.
Introduced by Alan Weeks

(from Birmingham)
(Colour)

Tchaikovky's 80-year-old grand-niece Galina von Meck remembers her life in both Tsarist and revolutionary Russia.