Today's story: "Noah's Ark" by Trevor Blakemore
Illustrated by Mina Martinez
Guest storyteller Colin Jeavons

with Richard Whitmore; Weather

Rich countries are industrialised. Poor countries are not. Should the poor be trying to catch up with the rich? Or should we be scaling down our own production and consumption closer to theirs? In this programme - the first in a series of six on the relationship between the rich and poor countries - John Percival argues that the spread of modern industry, far from solving the problems of poverty in the world, actually makes it worse.

The programme shows girls in Ceylon thrown out of work by modern machine looms, families in Ghana forced out of their homes by the demands of a big foreign firm, and one of our own unemployed, a skilled tradesman, made jobless by so-called progress. Industry brings its own problems in its train - pollution; the exhaustion of resources; and benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor.
(Are you being exploited?: pages 6-7)

Cliff Michelmore covers the world of Motoring with Barrie Gill and Dick Tracey
Tonight, action from yesterday's Spanish Grand Prix.
Analysis of the rising cost of car insurance and the reasons behind it.
Argument at the annual meeting this week of the Pedestrians Association whose President The Bishop of Chester campaigns to limit the freedom of the motor car in the interests of safety.
(Radio Times People: page 4)

by Rosemary Anne Sisson
The first of six plays
[Starring] Annette Crosbie as Catherine of Aragon
Starring Keith Michel as Henry VIII
with Dorothy Tutin as Anne Boleyn
with Patrick Troughton

(Keith Michell at home: pages 56-58)

Richard Williams looks at the news, the views, and the sounds of today's music. In the studio Linda Hoyle, Jackson Browne and any guests who may drop in
(This Week's Sounds; page 11)