Starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs

A delightful fantasy about a book publisher who, on the eve of his wedding, meets a young lady with powers beyond those of normal persuasion.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

From the United Services Ground, Portsmouth

The closing stages of this second-round match.

David Holmes reviews week-by-week the moves made by the politicians and examines the part played by government in the lives of us all.

Recorded highlights of this morning's ceremony when Her Majesty The Queen took the Salute on Horse Guards Parade, Whitehall, at the Annual Parade in celebration of Her Official Birthday.

by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised in four parts by Harry Green

George Melbury is expecting his daughter Grace to return home from boarding school. Little Hintock, where Mr Melbury has his timber yard, is also the home of Giles Winterborne, Grace's childhood sweetheart.
One of the series which Hardy grouped together as 'Novels of Character and Environment', The Woodlanders was written in 1887. It's been adapted by Harry Green who also adapted Jude the Obscure.
(Repeated: Friday. 9.50 pm)
(Radio Times People: page 4)

Introduced by Arthur Negus
Arthur Negus talks about the chain of events which brought about the sudden drop in value of paperweights and introduces a film which shows how they are made.
(From Bristol: previously shown In Collector's World on 9 February 1971)

Starring Kenneth Williams and The Young Generation
Guest artists Rod McKuen, Don Lusher
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

(Kenneth Williams is in "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" at the Cambridge Theatre, London; The Young Generation are in "Meet Me in London" at the Adelphi Theatre)

John Aspinall master gambler and lover of wild animals looks back over his week.

(Colour)

by James Joyce
Norman Rodway reads "The Boarding House"

Mrs Mooney knew that something was going on between her daughter, Polly, and one of the young men who lodged in her house. She watched and waited. And when the right moment came she dealt with the problem as a cleaver deals with meat. The young man didn't have a chance.

Starring Ann-Margret, Michael Parks
with Janet Margolin, Brad Dexter

Ann-Margret plays the young wife who needs both a rich husband and a virile lover in this unusually warm and gentle drama about a young man (played by Michael Parks) who returns to Main Street, America, to start a new life but quickly succumbs to the pleasures of the past.
His sister is played by Kim Darby, who starred with great success opposite John Wayne in True Grit.
(This Week's Films: page 9)