Today's story is "Desmond and the Fire" by Althea

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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After four matches of this 13-match filmed series the States lead 3-1.

Tonight: Ray Floyd (US) v Haruo Yasuda (Japan) at Killarney, Eire
Yasuda, first Eastern golfer to play in a US v World series, helped Japan to come second in the 1969 World Cup. He meets the 15-stone Floyd, a Ryder Cup player and former US PGA Champion, on a course which, with its lake and mountain background, is one of the most picturesque in the world.

Prize-money: $4,000 to the winner $2,000 to the loser

Wheelbase covers the world of motoring

Tonight Barrie Gill reviews the 1971 motor racing scene. Meet the champions Graham Hill, Denny Hulme, Jackie Stewart, and John Surtees and see them in action against the all-conquering Ferraris of Italy in the South African Grand Prix and the Race of the Champions at Brands Hatch.

Gordon Wilkins reports on the car of the week, the new V-12 Jaguar E-type and Judith Jackson drives it on the long straight roads of northern France.
On the opening night of the New York motor show Maxwell Boyd looks at America's answer to the small car invasion from Europe and sums up the dollar prospects for the new £10,000 Rolls-Royce convertible in the United States.
(Radio Times People: page 5)

Starring Lana Turner, John Gavin
with Sandra Dee, Dan O'Herlihy, Susan Kohner, Robert Alda, Juanita Moore

A young widow comes to New York determined to make a career on Broadway.
The glamorous Lana Turner stars as the actress forced to weigh career against personal happiness in the adaptation of a best-selling novel which is also concerned with one of America's foremost problems of today - the colour question.
It's a remake of the 1930s version with Claudette Colbert, Warren Williams and Louise Beavers, and started life as a novel by Fannie Hurst.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley