Starring Luke Halpin, Pamela Franklin, Tom Helmore and Flipper

Threatened with being parted from his pet dolphin, Flipper, young Sandy runs away to a remote island where he hopes they will never be found.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

An entertainment for children with Brian Cant
[and] Toni Arthur, Lionel Morton, John Styles, Jonathan Cohen, Spike Heatley, Alan Rushton
People and places - music and jokes. Games for indoors and out.
(Colour)

Oranges, sunshine, surfing, Hollywood - that's modern California. But it's also smog, garbage and overcrowding. Everywhere man's impact has been felt... by sea elephants, snow geese, condors, sea otters, and the amazing Gray Whales.
(From Bristol)
(Colour)

For the past year Jeremy James and a Man Alive film team have been following a hunt - not the fashionable Quorn, Pytchley or Beaufort, but one of the dozens of smaller farmers' hunts, the South Dorset.
They have discovered that in this year of 1973, hunting is a booming sport: for those who do, for those who watch, and for those who protest against it all.

News, views and current issues from the world of medicine.

Robin Page Arnot was born in Scotland and reared on a strict diet of Bible and Empire. But at 16 he became a revolutionary socialist and later helped to found the British Communist Party.
Now aged 83 he works on another book about the history of the British miners and has no doubts that his party will bring about a better society.

Weather

France v Scotland and Midland Counties (East) v All Blacks
Today's "double-bill" presents the highlights of the opening match of the 1973 International Championship season and the 22nd match of the 7th All Blacks Tour.

by Leo Tolstoy
A second chance to see this dramatisation in 20 parts by Jack Pulman

Napoleon entered Moscow only to find it deserted and difficult to supply his army. The city started to burn and Pierre was arrested as an incendiary.

(Shown last Thursday. The title music is available on record RESL 9, price 49p, from most record shops)
(Colour)

A live entertainment for Saturday, presenting a mixture of music, plays, poetry, prose, comedy, films, the visual arts - and a few surprises.
Introduced by Joe Melia with a little help from John Bird
Among the main events are:

Cartoonists
Cartoonists are expected to be provocative: Gerald Scarfe (Sunday Times and Private Eye) and Jak (London Evening Standard) raise more hackles than most of their contemporaries. Tonight they will be showing their work, including some new three-dimensional figures by Scarfe, and answering questions from the studio audience.

Plugged in to History
by John McGrath
with Elizabeth MacLennan, Robert Hamilton, Gillian Hanna
'When I read my papers, I feel plugged in to history. I feel the course of events coursing through my veins. I feel taken over, crushed, by many many men. I feel occupied, a house, squatted in, defiled. I become a human news-tape, mile after mile of me, torn out, pecked at by destiny's square lettering, ripped off, abandoned. Do you know why? Do you begin to? It's because I feel everything, all the way through me.'

9.55 Murray Perahia
The first appearance in Britain by this young American pianist since he won last year's Leeds International Piano Competition. A quite exceptional pianist - 'not a smash-and-grab technician, but a poet; 're-creation of the music' were some of the things written about him - tonight he plays Bartok's Piano Sonata (1926).
(Murray Perahia at the Festival Hall: Thursday 8.0 pm Radio 3)

A Misfortune
The second in a series of film adaptations from stories by Chekhov
With Lucy Fleming, Ben Kingsley, Peter Eyre
'It's just some summer silliness. I know you're bored - you should go away, take a tour somewhere. You're a sensible woman. You believe in the sanctity of marriage and the importance of the family to society... infidelity destroys families and anyway it's quite unnecessary...'

10.45 Steeleye Span
Imagine a group of village singers in 18th-century England playing electric guitars and percussion instruments - that's the kind of music Steeleye Span make, traditional airs from all over the British Isles performed in the rock idiom. Steeleye Span are Maddy Prior, Tim Hart, Peter Knight, Bob Johnson, Rick Kemp.

Plus sketches by John Bird, cartoon films, and a rare exhibition of Polish tapestries - some three-dimensional - on view for the last time before they are returned to Poland.

(Colour)

Weather

Starring David Farrar, Nadia Gray
with Maurice Teynac, June Clyde, Gilles Queant, Gerard Landry

Nearly blinded, Giles Gordon derives fresh hope from the girl he meets in the South of France and determines to solve the sinister mystery that soon divides them

(This Week's Films: page 9)