Today's story: "The Duck Pond" (trad)
Retold by Malcolm Carrick

Today's programme examines things that can go wrong in young adulthood, in the prime of life, in middle age and in old age.
Introduced by Michael Molyneux

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

The people, the stories and the action behind the one commodity no one can do without-money.
The Money Minder, our up-to-the-minute news feature on the Stock Market, explores and explains the world of bulls, bears and boomlets.

with Percy Thrower from Hodnet Hall, Shropshire
Hodnet Hall is best known for its man-made lakes and water gardens created by Brigadier Heber Percy, father of the present owner. This evening, therefore, Percy Thrower concentrates on aquatic and marginal plants and deep-water oxygenating plants. He also deals with the seasonal care of chrysanthemums and dahlias.

Topical arts magazine
Introduced by Keith Dewhurst

Short Story
A journey to the seaside, a cab, a train, a small hotel, a film crew on location and the search for someone once imagined... This is a film about the celebrated short-story writer William Trevor, who has a new book published this week - and it's more like one of his own stories than a portrait of a writer. It tells of his thoughts and the events on his way to try to find "the general", a character he created now given life once more by an actor, Alastair Sim, in a forthcoming BBC television play - "The General's Day".

Seven Years to Learn to Paint an Egg
Believe it or not, that's how long it takes! Egg-painting is just one of the extraordinary crafts in this rare film of present-day Chinese at work in Peking, still making the intricate ivory and jade objects for which the Chinese are traditionally famous.
Presented by Joan Griffiths

Annette Peacock
A unique opportunity to see and hear a new singing star from the States.

(This Week's Sounds: page 11)
(Colour)

Written by Michael Frayn and Eleanor Bron
with John Bird
[Starring] Eleanor Bron, John Bird, Barrie Ingham in a new weekly series

and Weather

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