Today's story "The Duck Pond" by Malcolm Carrick

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)

Is an Elected Members Committee the best way of sharing responsibility? What are the alternatives?

with Peter Woods
Reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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The world today
More and more camera teams from European television networks are travelling the world reporting on people, politics, cults and traditions.
Tonight's programme brings edited versions of some of the documentary films shown recently on television in East and West Europe.
Introduced by Derek Hart

by Henry James
Dramatised in six parts by Jack Pulman
Starring Cyril Cusack as Bob Assingham, Daniel Massey as Prince Amerigo, Gayle Hunnicutt as Charlotte Stant, Barry Morse as Adam Verver, Jill Townsend as Maggie Verver, Kathleen Byron as Fanny Assingham

Maggie Verver, a rich American, is to marry an impoverished Italian Prince. The subsequent events are studied in fascinating depths by Henry James in this the last of his full-length novels.
(How the BBC found an elegant Charlotte and a loving Maggie: cover story, pages 8-9)

with guest stars Nicol Williamson, Anne Evans, Roy Budd Trio
and featuring Julian Orchard
(Anne Evans appears by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera)

The first of three films made in Cuba since the revolution
Starring Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Nunez, Adela Legra, Adolfo Llaurado, Ramon Brito

Three love stories set in 1895, 1933 and 1959 represent the three occasions on which the Cuban people have been forced to fight for their independence.
Awarded the Grand Prix at the Moscow Film Festival, and admired by critics for its artistic freedom and Integrity, Humberto Solas's atmospheric film failed to secure a commercial distribution in Britain.
(This Week's Films: page 9)