Today's story is "Bert's Boot" by Jean Watson

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

Again the North Sea reveals its surprises as Dr David Bellamy explores the submarine forest which surrounds our coast. Pollution is already threatening its diversity of animal life.
(Natural history film from Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hamburg))

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

The people, the stories and the action behind the one commodity no one can do without - money.
The Money Minder, our up-to-the-minute news feature on the Stock Market explores and explains the world of bulls, bears and boomlets.

"I found purely as a result of the programme that I had cancer. Until that day I suspected nothing."
The author of this letter discovered her cancer through self-examination, after seeing the first showing of this programme in the Television Doctor series in which a doctor explains how and why it should be done.
[Repeat]
(A new series begins on 28 November)

Topical arts magazine
Introduced by David Jones

Stripped Down to What's Real
'You may think it's a different reality, but when you've stripped the fur off an animal, you're down to the sinew, the blood and the flesh' - the human figure, violent, assaulted, caged like an animal: the images of Francis Bacon's paintings, art that cries out for your attention.
This week Bacon becomes the first English artist to be honoured in his lifetime by a major exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. In tonight's film this reticent painter talks about his art and his view of life.

The King's Road to Park Lane
A large part of Belgravia and Mayfair - The Grosvenor Estate - has been in private ownership for the past 250 years. Over this time its appearance has naturally changed.
Terence Bendixson, architecture and planning journalist, looks at the strategy for the future proposed today by the Grosvenor Estate.

The Rambert goes on Tour
Tonight, to mark the Ballet Rambert's tour of the South and West, Joseph Scoglio dances a solo from the Rambert's attractive ballet, arranged to English 16th-century court music, 'Tis Goodly Sport.

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

Written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke-Taylor
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
and featuring Henry McGee
with Norman Mitchell, Corbet Woodall, Katya Wyeth, Maria O'Brien, Ken Halliwell, Walter Henry, Patrick Milner
and the voice of Cilla Black

When every musician is stolen by the Maestro, The Goodies work in harmony.