Today's story is "Lucy and Tom's Day" by Shirley Hughes

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)

with Peter Woods
Weather

Mild and bitter humour, with sweet and sour songs that will tickle your palate - if you get the drift of: Henry Livings, Alex Glasgow, The Fivepenny Piece and their guest Derek Fuke
(from Manchester)

Introduced by David Jones

Film Extras
Film extras, known until recently in the trade as 'cattle,' are the stuffing without which no film could be made. There are 2,500 extras in the London area alone. Review takes a young girl, an old woman and a middle-aged man and looks at the film industry through their eyes.

Alan Bennett visits Bernard Berenson
Alan Bennett recalls an informal visit to the famous art historian and collector Bernard Berenson on the eve of the second world war.

The Tribal Image
The Ethnography section of the British Museum has recently found a new home in Piccadilly. Review went there to take a close look at the strange and beautiful primitive sculptures in the newly housed collection.

Solar Plexus
Nucleus is a group which brings together some of the most exciting talents of rock and modern jazz in Britain. Trumpeter Ian Carr, who formed the band, has written a suite called Solar Plexus which explores the conflict between the human body and the abstract background of the modern world.
Review asked choreographer David Drew to help realise it for television.

(David Jones is a member of the RSC)
(Colour)

by Honore de Balzac
A second chance to see this dramatisation in five parts by Ray Lawler
Starring Margaret Tyzack

Bette and Valerie have established themselves in the house which Hector has provided for Valerie. One evening both Crevel and Hector were at Valerie's when her long-lost lover, Henri Montes, arrived unexpectedly.

An opera by Gunther Schuller
Libretto by the composer suggested by the works of Franz Kafka
starring Simn Estes as Carter Jones

The black baritone Simon Estes sings the title role in this highly acclaimed new opera. The central theme is that of a man subject to persecution by persons unknown, for reasons unknown to him.

Ambrosian Opera Chorus
The Jazz Combo
Alan Branscombe (piano), Les Condon (trumpet), Ronnie Stevenson (percussion), Ronnie Ross (alto sax), Tony Roberts (clarinet), Keith Christie (trombone), Spike Heatley (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
leader Trevor Williams
conducted by Gunther Schuller

(Dennis Wicks appears by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; David Bowman by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera)