Martin Booth talks to John West about equipping the History Room.

Dr Alan Charig visits the Fossil Galleries at the Natural History Museum with Peter Bennet Stone

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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Throughout history the 'dowry' has been part of the wedding arrangements. In 1971 young girls are still bought and sold on the marriage market. Today in Yugoslavia the price is paid in land. In the Solomon Islands strings of shells and porpoise teeth must pass hands before the groom meets for the first time his bride-to-be. Film reports from the television networks of West and East Europe.
Introduced by Derek Hart

by John Malcolm

The night porter's evidence at the trial was purely formal. But why did he lie about one seemingly unimportant detail?

Written by Dave Freeman
Starring Terry Scott
featuring June Whitfield, Peter Butterworth, Frank Thornton, Dilys Watling, Colin Jeavons, Ronnie Brody, Rose Hill

The last film in Andrzej Wajda's famous trilogy of Polish youth in the Second World War
Starring Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzanowska

Outside a Polish provincial town on the first day of peace, a nationalist underground unit lies in wait to ambush a newly arrived Communist District Secretary. When the assassination attempt fails, Maciek, the youngest member of the group, is ordered to complete the assignment.
(This Week's Films: page 13)

with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley