Today's story is "Indian Two Feet and His Horse" by Margaret Friskey
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.35 pm)
(Colour)
Second day
The final two hours of play direct from Lord's introduced by Peter West
An investigation of transport today and in the next ten years.
How much importance needs to be given to public transport? Does the growth of motor car ownership mean an inevitable reduction of other types of urban transport?
with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
Weather
Introduced by Derek Hart and Brian Widlake
Six programmes on the Common Market
The Deutschmark crisis last month threw the Common Market into disarray and showed that the plans drawn up for a European currency are a long way from the realities of the international money market. Britain was on the sidelines then, but, if we join, the Six would almost certainly want to end our role as banker to the world. But has Britain other financial skills which could work to our advantage in the Common Market?
(Fifth programme: next Thursday)
Introduced by David Jones
Robert Lowell and Jonathan Miller
Robert Lowell is America's outstanding living poet. He is also a considerable dramatist for whom the ancient myth of Prometheus who stole fire from the gods and was punished for his audacity has a special meaning. In his own version of Aeschylus's tragedy Prometheus Bound, the intellectual rebel is pitted against political tyranny in a drama which Lowell sees as a parallel with the condition of contemporary America.
David Jones introduces Kenneth Haigh in scenes from the play, which opens next week at the Mermaid Theatre, and talks to Robert Lowell and the director Jonathan Miller about the reasons for the adaptation and the ideas behind the play.
Young Virtuoso
Mischa Dichter, a New Yorker, born in Shanghai of Polish parents, is the latest in a long line of American pianists to have distinguished himself on the international circuit. He won the Silver Medal in the Tchaikovsky Competition - one of the most coveted pianistic honours. Tonight he plays one of Liszt's Mephisto waltzes.
(David Jones is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Colour)
by Peter Yeldham
Starring Richard Briers, Anne Rogers, Julia Lockwood
with Dudley Foster, Leslie Lawton
A highly successful confidence trick pulled by Charlie and the girls almost ends in disaster.
by Thomas Hardy
Another chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Harry Green
The regular weekly look at the City, the Stock Market, and the world of investment.
Presented by Paul Griffiths with, this week, Robert Head, City editor of The Daily Mirror.
Produced by the Money Programme Unit
Television Doctor looks at the importance of keeping fit.
And businessman Tim Brooke-Taylor shows how to keep in trim on the way to work.
(Colour)
