Today's story is "Thomas Has a Bath" by Gunilla Wolde

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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James Astor talks to E. H. Shepard
In 1924, Ernest Shepard was commissioned to illustrate A. A. Milne's classic Winnie the Pooh. These drawings, together with those for Wind in the Willows, established him as one of the world's most famous illustrators.

The people, the stories, and the action behind the one commodity no one can do without - money. Together with the Money-Minder - a regular feature with up-to-the-minute news of the Stock Market.

from Hall's Croft, Stratford-upon-Avon
Percy Thrower and Harold Goodyear, Head Gardener of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust look to the coming season and the plants that will be used to provide colour in the Shakespeare gardens at Stratford-upon-Avon.

The international singing star from Greece in the third of a new series also featuring The Athenians with special guests The Pattersons, Gheorghe Zamfir and the Rumanian Folk Ensemble and the Black Theatre of Prague

(The Black Theatre of Prague are appearing in Danny La Rue's Show at the Palace Theatre, London)

and Weather

features
Allan Taylor - British singer/songwriter
Warhorse - a five-piece group
Richard Williams looks at the LP charts together with a selection of the new releases.
(This Week's Sounds: page 11)

(The Virtuous Isidore)
The final film in BBC2's special three-part tribute to the great French actor Starring Fernandel with Francoise Rosay

Fernandel was very young when he appeared in this delightful comedy based on the Maupassant short story about a village idiot who, given a cash prize for his chaste life, suddenly decides to mend his ways.
(Another Maupassant story, Bel Ami: Friday, 10.10 pm)
(This Week's Films: page 9)