Today's story is "Josh Jolly and the Flag" by Mrs J. Tomsett

(Colour)

(to 19.00)

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
Weather

The first in the series of repeats of Bird's-Eye View is an aerial tour of the emptiest and most beautiful corner of Britain, in the company of William Carrocher.

For centuries Highlanders have been drifting away - driven off their lands by the difficulties of their environment and, above all, by the cruel events of history. Today the far north-west shows a legacy of 200 years of exploitation and misguided paternalism. The helicopter flew 3,000 miles, criss-crossing from Skye to Orkney, from Balmoral to St Kilda the loneliest of all the British Isles. The camera looked down on misty lochs which once sheltered Bonnie Prince Charlie; on the roofless villages of deserted Hebridean islands; on crofters scratching a living from stony fields; on hydro-electric dams and forestry plantations which are intended to bring people back to the Highlands.
If there is wilderness anywhere in Britain it is here; but for how long will it withstand the pressures of our ever-expanding population?

"It took an Englishman to make the best film about the Highlands yet" (Daily Record)
"An outstanding script which had just the right mixture of humour and pathos, of the sentimental and the lyrical" (The Scotsman)
[Repeat]

A singer and his songs
Country Joe MacDonald sings Ballad of Jean Duprez

by Anton Chekhov
translated by Elisaveta Fen
[Starring] Freddie Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Ann Bell and Roland Culver

"Perfectly cast... beautifully directed" (Evening News)
(Ann Dyson is a member of the RSC)
(Radio Times People: page 5)