Today's story: "The Hedgehog and the Bonfire" by Graham Beebee
Illustrated by James Mathews Joyce

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Today the annual Liberal Party Assembly opens in Margate and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates.
12.15* Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, MP, Leader of the Liberal Party, addresses the Assembly.
(1.0-2.45 Closedown)

with Richard Whitmore
and at five-to-eight:
Conference Report
David Holmes reporting from the Liberal Party Assembly
Weather

Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: The Prisoner
What chance has John Booroof got? At 39, a petty criminal, he wanted, more than anything, to go straight. For five years he made it. He succeeded in putting behind him a lifetime of crime, 17 prison sentences served in 20 years. For the first time in his life he led what the prison authorities call 'a good and useful life.' He married a woman who had never had a wrong word with the police. They started a family, he found the kind of security and love he'd never known before.
Then he was back in prison again - where Man Alive met him. An experienced, embittered criminal. Later, outside prison, we met him again and watched him try to pick up the pieces of his family life. There are 40,000 men behind bars in this country today. John Booroof is one man who wanted to go straight. He is nearly middle-aged now. Harold Williamson asks: Can he make it?

In the second programme of the series Sir John Betjeman concentrates on the grandiose public buildings of Melbourne with its fine Houses of Parliament and Botanic Gardens, and of Sydney with its early Victorian Victoria Barracks and impressive ANZAC memorial. But behind and beyond, there is always the other Australia, 'alarming and enormous, a crackling golden landscape.'

A BBC/Australian Broadcasting Commission co production

Starring Warner Baxter
with Gloria Stuart, Harry Carey

After assassinating Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth breaks a leg while making his escape. Unaware of his patient's identity Dr Samuel Mudd sets the broken limb and Booth goes on his way. The doctor is arrested for complicity in the assassination-and sentenced to life imprisonment in the infamous fort known as Shark Island.
(This Week's Films: page S)