Little Boy Blue
Come blow your horn
Today's story: "Hare and Hedgehog" by Euan Cooper-Willis
Illustrated by Horst Lemke.
Presenters this week Sarah Long, Derek Griffiths

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

Good food, good company, and a big helping of do-it-ourselves is the recipe for Miss Cross's club for the elderly in Teignmouth, Devon.
(Book: page 12)

with Richard Whitmore reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad.
Weather.

A Western adventure series with Hannibal Heyes and Jed 'Kid' Curry, two of the roughest, toughest, nicest and kindest - outlaws who ever rode the West.
Starring Pete Duel as Smith and Ben Murphy as Jones with guest stars Jack Kelly, Rory Calhoun, Joe Flynn, Paul Fix.

When Smith and Jones are chosen by an old prospector to share his fabulous gold strike it all seems too good to be true. And it is.

A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir, Katharine Whitehorn, Patrick Cargill and Patrick Campbell, Rosemary Leach, Denis Norden
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)

Just after sunrise every morning of the year, a queue of mothers carrying their small children wait at the gates of a former RAF base near the mouth of the River Gambia in West Africa.They come to a Medical Research Council Clinic for help. Their children have malaria.
Today, most people probably consider malaria a disease of the past - but it is still far from beaten. In Africa malaria is still the major cause of death in children, and one million people still die from it every year.
Now, one hope is for a vaccine against the disease, and a Horizon team recently visited Gambia to film several unique research projects, studying both the disease and how it is transmitted by the mosquito. It gives a fascinating insight into a frontier of science and also reveals an intriguing picture of a part of Africa where a killer-disease is still accepted as a way of life.

by Reg Hill
The 250th programme presents Nigel Davenport as Major Bartholomew in "An Affair of Honour"
with Michael Pennington as Martin, Penelope Wilton as Lucy, Frederick Pyne as Shatters

All's fair in love and war for the mad Major Bartholomew... even Russian roulette with a love-sick subaltern.
(Radio Times People: page 5)

and Weather

The critic and Literary Manager of the National Theatre talks to Sheridan Morley about his life and his work, including Soldiers, the controversial play about Winston Churchill; the erotic review Oh! Calcutta; and the Roman Polanski film of Macbeth which opens this week.