Story: "Richard's Sandcastle" by Jean Watson
Presenters this week: Sarah Long, Lionel Morton

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

Fourth day
The final two hours' play direct from The Oval
Introduced by Peter West

with Richard Whitmore; Weather

Fay Leighton, an attractive widow, whose husband once owned the High Chaparral, hires a fast gun to drive the Cannons off their land.
(Colour) [Repeat]

Adapted for TV by Michael Gilbert and Christopher Bond
Starring Alastair Sim, Roy Dotrice, Avice Landon and Thorley Walters
with guest star John Le Mesurier

The story of The Tay Bridge

On 28 December 1879 a train with 75 passengers plunged from the Tay Bridge into the river below. One thousand yards of the central section had collapsed. There was an immediate enquiry and the original transcripts provide the source for this dramatisation.

"One of those historical documentaries that the BBC does supremely well" (Daily Telegraph)

by Fay Weldon
[Starring] Rosemary Leach as Josie

Josie's face conceals her hard life but she knows the lines on her hands tell the truth.
(Life's Lines?: pages 8-9)

Richie Benaud introduces highlights of the fourth day's play from The Oval