Here's a picture: a funny clown.
Today's story "The Circus" by Brian Wildsmith.

7.0 Interval

with Peter Woods; Weather

Esther Rantzen talks to Professor Hyman Levy.
A hundred years ago a carpenter called Marcus Levy escaped from the Russian Tsar by swimming across a river which divided Lithuania from Poland. He arrived in England with a piece of paper in his pocket marked: 'I I want to go to Edinburgh.' There he worked as a street-seller of sponges and came home to discuss the works of Spinoza and Maimonides.
One of his eight children, Hymie, later became Professor of Mathematics and Dean of the Royal College of Science. Now aged 82, he looks back, in the first of four programmes, with a sense of humour and intellect as bright as ever, on his family, his street battles, and his first day at school.

Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Can you read this? Could you write it? Robert Payne is a bright 16-year-old - normal in every way except that he can barely read and write. He's just one of the bright, likeable children in tonight's Man Alive. He suffers from what some experts call dyslexia. Dyslexic children find it very difficult to learn what comes so naturally to most of us. They are not necessarily dull - indeed, many are more intelligent than average. But they often spend their school lives in misery and frustration - thought of as stupid. Is enough being done for them? Why do some experts argue that dyslexia is nothing but a label used to excuse backward children? In the first of two programmes, Jim Douglas Henry and a Man Alive film team look at those who are frequently written off with 'could do better.'

It is hard to imagine trees spoiling a landscape. But Christopher Harris, a local forester and conservationist, says it is happening in the Cotswold Hills today, and if we are not careful, this area of outstanding natural beauty could lose its traditional appearance completely.

Tonight's film in this season of British films
Starring Sarah Miles

Cass has left her husband Matthew Langdon and returned to the tiny fishing port in Western Ireland where she was brought up. She finds that nothing there seems to have changed - not even her childhood sweetheart Colin Foley.
(Sarah Miles interview and This Week's Films: page 11)

and Weather

with Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley, Ray Taylor .