Today's story is "Harry and the lady next door" by Gene Zion.

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)

A fortnightly series of programmes for doctors

Presented by Bill Coleman
(Publications: page 12)

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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Bob Goalby (US) v Christy O'Connor (Ireland) at Ballybunion
The match that will decide the final score in the series.

Goalby, US Masters champion of 1968, meets O'Connor, winner of the world-record prize of £25,000 in last year's Player Classic, on one of Ireland's finest natural seaside links.
Prize-money: $4,000 to the winner $2,000 to the loser

Maxwell Boyd, Barrie Gill and Gordon Wilkins cover the motoring news of the week.
Does Vauxhall's new car mean more profits and prosperity for Luton?
The AA and the RAC - is there room in Britain for both of them?
Is the motor car a smog machine? The Minister of the Environment, The Rt Hon Peter Walker, MP, defends his 'clean car' anti-pollution policy.

Starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner
with Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead

A brilliant young writer, Fedja, meets the beautiful Pauline on the way to the casino at Wiesbaden where she and her father are habitual patrons at the gambling tables. In an effort to help cancel the family's debts Fedja stakes his life savings at roulette.
Gregory Peck plays the writer who himself becomes a slave to the tables in this story inspired by Dostoevsky's The Gambler.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

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

(Colour)