Today's Story is "The Runaway Tram" by Peggy Blakeley
Illustrated by Kota Taniuchi.

(Colour)

First day: the final two hours of play from The Oval

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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Aristide Bruant was a cult figure in the Paris of the 1890s. Toulouse Lautrec designed several posters for Bruant's shows, creating some of his most remarkable images.
George Melly visits a London poster shop to look at this and other works by Lautrec.

Paul Tortelier works with young professional cellists on three Beethoven cello sonatas
with Martin Isepp (piano)
In the Beethoven bicentenary year Tortelier gave classes on all the cello sonatas.

Tonight: Sonata in A major, Op 69

with Christopher van Kampen and Naomi Butterworth

with Percy Thrower from Nymans, Sussex
The last visit this year to the home of the Earl and Countess of Rosse and one of the great gardens of the world.
The whole of this evening's programme is devoted to the very heart of Nymans and perhaps the most romantic part of all-the Wall Garden.

starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett
with Josephine Tewson, New World, Tina Charles and Madeline Smith as Henrietta

(First shown on BBC1)
(Colour)

Starring Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck
with Jarl Kulle

Ingmar Bergman's first film in colour is a broad comedy about a music critic's unsuccessful attempts to interview a famous cellist whose biography he is writing. It is also his revenge on the critics who try to interpret and analyse his films.
(This Week's Films: page 9)