Story "The Kind Elephant" by Pat Gibson
told by Richard Baker.

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)

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(to 19.00)

with Peter Woods.
Weather
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Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Today: The Army Game
First the Home Guard came by its affectionate label of 'Dad's Army'. But since before 1939 the Territorial Army somehow has always been 'The Terriers'. Ex-National Servicemen joined to fulfil their reserve training obligations and some stayed on. Volunteers join because they like the idea of part-time military life. But the Territorial Army has always been a political ping-pong ball. In 1965 it was threatened with reorganisation and drastic pruning to save £20 million a year. But then came a reprieve. And in April this year a drive was started to recruit another 10,000 men. Today it has a new name - the Territorial and Army Voluntary Reserve - and a new look, with new weapons and a new job to do.
What makes a quiet civilian family man want to fire guns and drive armoured cars for a fortnight a year and one evening a week? Do they feel part of a serious fighting force? Or do they just play the army game?
(Radio Times People: page 4)
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A singer and his songs
Livingston Taylor sings 'Dr Man,' 'Carolina Day, 'Dixi'

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by J.M. Synge
[Starring] John Hurt, Sinead Cusack
with Pauline Delany, Joe Lynch and Kevin Flood

(Radio Times People: page 4)
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