"Fishing with Elfinfioflam" by Norman Beaton
Guest storyteller Norman Beaton

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

From the All England Jumping Course, Hickstead
Further coverage of The 1972 British Championships Meeting

with Peter Woods; Weather

The last of three programmes with John Hillaby

From Harting to Beachy Head, he shows us the delights of open country: orchid-strewn forests, picturesque villages and smugglers' haunts. We share his observations as a naturalist: his recounting of local tales and superstitions; his blisters and his beer.

by H.G. Wells
Dramatised in four parts by Alun Richards

Encouraged by Miss Heydinger Mr. Lewisham was pursuing his ideals when he unexpectedly met Ethel at a seance. He and Ethel found they were still in love and they married.

A series of ten programmes
with Kenneth Hudson
The eighth of a series looking at Britain's industrial heritage.

Industrial plant is generally thought to be functional rather than beautiful. Yet in the 1830s the artist Thomas Hair travelled the coalfields of Northumberland and Durham to produce a volume of magnificent sketches of the coalmines and mining landscapes. It is this quality of monumental scenic grandeur which typifies the industrial past of the North East.

The first of three films by the great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
Starring Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba

A primitive village decides to hire Samurai, professional warriors, to defend their crops and their women against the annual raids of marauding bandits. But the village is poor and can only afford the services of seven Samurai...
(Part 2 at 11.5 pm*)
(This Week's Films: page 11)

and Weather