Today's story is "Tom and Sam" by Pat Hutchins

(to 19.00)

Introduced by Brian Jackson
with Paul Grist, Raymond Mason, Ivan Beavis, Eric Young, Rex Wei, John Bloomfield, Robert Lee, Me Me Lay

with Martin Bell reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
Weather

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

This week: The Act of Abortion
The Abortion Act of 1967 is to be reviewed - when a committee of open-minded citizens can be formed. The trouble is that most people already have their opinions: they don't want to be confused by the facts. But the fact is that well-intentioned legislation has resulted in a few mind-bending illogicalities. Some private abortionists are reputed to be coining £10,000 a year, while the National Health Service, overburdened with serious cases awaiting treatment, is sometimes reluctant to terminate pregnancies.
This week, on film and m the studio, Man Alive examines the difficulties which surround the women who want and those who perform the act of abortion.

From the League of Champions tonight featuring Kingsley Kennerley v Gary Owen
Two Midland players confront each other for the first time. Owen so far has the distinction of scoring the highest break - 53. Can he improve upon it?
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)

by Ingmar Bergman
Translated by Paul Britten Austin
with Frank Finlay as Andrew Firth, Gemma Jones as Anna Firth, John Carson as Ellis Anderson, Mark Dignam as Anna's Father, Annette Crosbie as Katherine, Caroline Blakiston as Esther and Joss Ackland as Albert

The smooth surface of a marriage cracks into violence in this first British television play by Sweden's best-known film director-writer.

"This is marriage with the lid off ...quite outside the conventional range of TV drama" (Daily Express)
"...superlatively played by Frank Finlay and Gemma Jones and a positive galaxy of distinguished players in tiny parts... admiration and enjoyment came together most exceptionally" (Sunday Times)
"...very disturbing play, and a very good one... a play of real substance and private insights" (The Guardian)
Winner of the SFTA award for best drama production of 1970.
(Radio Times People: page 4)

The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins, MP for the Opposition

Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley