Today's story: "Milly-Molly-Mandy makes a Cosy" by Joyce Lankester Brisley
Told by Anne Cunningham

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

with Clive Jacobs
Reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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A series of three film reports by Trevor Philpott

The concert soloist is possibly the loneliest travelling showman of them all; and at the top end of the scale, probably the best paid. But he has to satisfy the most devoted and most critical audiences of them all. It's a fiercely competitive world, and for every one highly paid star there are hundreds of devoted musicians who fail to earn even an ordinary living on the concert stage.

This film compares the working lives of two soloists: Henryk Szeryng is already at the top; Allan Schiller is still in the thick of the struggle for survival.

Otto Klemperer conducts the complete cycle in sequence with the New Philharmonia Orchestra led by Carlos Villa

The nine symphonies were recorded at a series of public concerts in the Royal Festival Hall during the Beethoven bicentenary year, 1970. The cycle is now repeated to mark the occasion of Otto Klemperer's retirement.

Tonight: Symphony No 4, in B flat major; Symphony No 5, in C minor

(Next Friday: No 6 'Pastoral')

with Colin Welland and Ian Wooldridge
The actor-playwright and sports-writer-of-the-year in their weekly look at the summer sports scene.

Dennis Lillee - Fast Bowler
Gregory, McDonald, Lindwall, Larwood, Miller, Tyson, Hall, Trueman, Snow - the genuine top-class fast bowler of fire and hostility ignites the game of cricket. Dennis Lillee, subject of this film, threatened to become such a bowler when he came here with the Australian Test team.
(Colin Welland's Blackpool: pp 46-48)

with Percy Thrower from Scotland
Cawdor Castle, Nairn
Has summer forsaken England and gone north of the Border? Percy Thrower looks for signs of it in the gardens of this romantic 15th-century Highland stronghold, home of the Earl and Countess Cawdor.

with Tony Bilbow, Michael Dean, Sheridan Morley