"Tinker, Tailor" by Peter Charlton
Guest storyteller Colin Jeavons

When the issue falls to the Private Member, how does he take his decision?
Presented by Robert McKenzie
With William Hamling, MP and Richard Hornby, MP

with Richard Whitmore
Reporting the world tonight
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Jim Douglas Henry talks to Lotte Reiniger

Seventy-two-year-old Lotte Reiniger first made her name in films in Berlin during the 20s as the great pioneer of film animation. She now lives in the Abbey Arts Centre in north London, and is still as active as ever.

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

This week: Alive and Well and Living in Malta
5.30 am and Major Dan Bonar, pacing the roof of his house, greets the dawn with a skirl of his bagpipes. Another day in Malta has begun; a day when a retired colonial policeman will play golf with a retired shop-keeper; a retired Kenyan farmer will play polo; one retired businessman will hoe his marrows and another will play with his collapsible motor-bike. For the bronchial, asthmatic and arthritic as well as the plain hard-up, Malta is a place in the sun where it is still possible to live well, if not extravagantly, on £1,000 a year. Also, for those who have lived and worked in what once were called our colonies, Malta can seem the nearest place to home where the sun does still shine. This is not a film about politicians or the British military presence; it is not even about a representative cross-section of the British in Malta. It is about some of the English abroad. Fifty years ago they would, perhaps, have been destined to govern outposts of our Empire. Today there is no Empire, so their destiny is Malta where, for some of them at least, the setting sun of Imperial grandeur still lingers nostalgically on.

BBC2 Snooker Competition
A League of Champions compete for the 1972 Pot Black Trophy
Tonight: John Spencer v Fred Davis
The 1971 finalists in action again.
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)

Starring Paulette Goddard, Michael Wilding, Diana Wynyard, Glynis Johns, Hugh Williams

The second of four films based on the works of Oscar Wilde. In this glittering version of Oscar Wilde's famous play, Paulette Goddard plays the mysterious and devious Mrs Cheveley, who plans to blackmail Sir Robert Chiltern, a respected politician and the 'ideal husband' of the title.
(This Week's Films: page 9)