with Richard Whitmore; Weather

What would have cost you a single gold sovereign in 1900, takes £10 out of your wallet. Is inflation a permanent hole in your pocket, or is there so much money going through that it doesn't matter anyway? Is the economy rising, sinking or just drifting?

with Percy Thrower from Knightshayes Court, Tiverton, Devon
A second visit to these beautiful West Country gardens: this week dealing with summer bedding.

Introduced by Keith Dewhurst

A Slightly Shocking Spectacle
...the words of Lytton Strachey, biographer of Queen Victoria and Elizabeth and Essex talking about his own life and that of his friends, the tight-knit society of Bloomsbury. They could perhaps be equally used to describe biography in general!
One of Strachey's friends, novelist Virginia Woolf, is the subject of a new biography, and Review talks to Quentin Bell, its author, and to Michael Holroyd, Strachey's biographer, about how such lives are written - and what, in fact, went on between those two great Titans of literary London.

Whoever was Heath Robinson?
His name has entered the language to describe those fantastic 'contraptions' he invented in cartoons for more than 40 years.
To celebrate this month's centenary of his birth, tonight we look back at the work of one of the most popular English humorists.

Monsters, Unicorns and 'Femmes Fatales'
- the world of Gustave Moreau, French symbolist painter, a man who wrote 'I only believe in what I do not see.' This film on Moreau marks the opening next week at London's Hayward Gallery of a major exhibition of symbolist painting - a whole 19th-century art movement hardly known in this country.

with Colin Welland and Ian Wooldridge

The start of a summer series in which Welland, award-winning actor-playwright, and Wooldridge, award-winning journalist, Sports-writer of the Year, take a new look at their mutual passion, Sport - its action, artistry, controversy, humour and news.

Tonight:
Trevino - Can He Last?
A look behind the action and laughter at the man and golfer who last year won the US, Canadian and British Open championships in 20 days.

Welland and Wooldridge want to know...
they invite a topical guest- and fire some questions.

Also, writer Ray Gosling who goes to a football match and finds it a social phenomenon...
Rimas Vainorius looks at athletics through- his camera and sees it as an essay in grace...
and Tonight's news, scores and results
(Ideal sportsday with Welland: page 12)

and Weather