Today's story "Sunflowers and Shadows" (trad)

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

with Keith Graves; Weather

Alan and Joan Root are best known for their film portraits of African wildlife, but their home at Lake Naivasha has also been the base for a two-year-old animal venture of another kind. High in the mountain forests of Kenya live shy and beautiful antelopes known as bongos. Filming these rare animals led to a major operation to establish breeding groups.

by Mary McMinnies
Dramatised in five parts by Ray Lawler

In 1951 Milly Purdoe, wife of a Member of a British Mission, arrived with her family to live for the first time in a country behind the Iron Curtain.

at Her Majesty's a new series in which the award-winning actor visits different London theatres to recall some music and drama they have presented.
Written by Ian Thorne
with special guests Ian McKellen, Moira Anderson, Peter Gilmore, Angela Richards, Jeremy Lloyd
The Irving Davies Dancers
The Mike Sammes Singers
(Radio Times People: page 4)

In December 1941 the Americans entered the war; and not only did they play a considerable part in winning it, they did a lot to cheer the British women up. With their smart uniforms, smart patter and supply of 'luxury' goods like cigarettes and nylons, it could definitely be said they had a way with the girls.
In Suffolk, where there were more than 30 US airbases, hundreds of girls became wartime GI Brides. The first one to leave Saxmundham found, like so many, that America wasn't quite like they showed it in the Hollywood films.

Starring Zygmunt Malanowicz, Malgorzata Braunek
with Ewa Skarzanka, Hanna Skarzanka, Jozef Pierackl

This biting satire on life in Warsaw has universal application. Everywhere in the world there are Wlodeks who successfully escape the domination of one woman only to end up in the hands of another. Like Orson Welles, Wajda never recovered from the success of his first films.
(This Week's Films: page 9)