Story: "Mr Tall and Mr Small" by Barbara Brenner illustrated by Tomi Ungerer

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

5.50-6.15 Closedown

Join Roy Day and Phyllida Law in decorating a room.

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with Eric Stevens

The rivers in the West Highlands of Scotland are usually short, usually rocky, but always beautiful. Most are 'spate' rivers, needing rain every few days to keep them running full. It's during July and August that the salmon come in to spawn - it's a pleasant time to fish.

What future has the British Steel Industry?
The Government will invest £3,000-million over the next ten years to modernise old, inefficient plants and as a result 50,000 jobs will disappear.
The investment is a gamble-a gamble that 35-million tons of British steel will be needed in 1980. If it is not, then more losses and more redundancies will follow. Set free to run on a commercial basis, the industry may make profits-but at what social cost? Who will look after towns like Shotton and Ebbw Vale if steel-making goes?
Have Lord Melchett and the Government got it right? What do we want from steel - efficiency or employment?
Presented by Brian Wedlake
With Paul Griffiths, David Taylor and Robert McKenzie

Roy Strong, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, discusses the appearance and personality of six English sovereigns from Tudor times to the age of Victoria, and asks to what extent the portraits reveal their character.

(Next week: Victoria)
(Colour)

Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson review some of the current releases which range from "Tchaikovsky" to "Elvis on Tour" and include "Shamus" with Burt Reynolds and Dyan Cannon, "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" starring Paul Newman, and the long-awaited "Portnoy's Complaint" based on the bestselling novel by Philip Roth.

(Colour)

with David Tindall
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