Story: "Pybus and Phonograph" written and illustrated by Hilary Hayton

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Join Roy Day and Phyllida Law in decorating a room

with Percy Thrower from Clacks Farm, Ombersley, Worcestershire

This is the beginning of the vegetable season, So Percy Thrower prepares seed-beds and makes early sowings under cloches. In the greenhouse he deals with vegetable seed sowing for planting out later in the season.
(from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Tuesday afternoon, BBC1)

Some experts reckon there's enough oil and gas under the North Sea for Britain to be self-sufficient in energy by 1990. The annual saving to the balance of payments could be £1,000 million. The benefit to British industry could be incalculable.
But Britain's slice of these rich new oilfields is just 12 per cent. According to Lord Balogh, adviser to the Labour Government, at least £15,000 million has been 'given away.' And the North Sea oilfields have called into being a complete new industry. Soon that alone will be worth £600 million a year. But will British firms get their share of the market?
Presented by Brian Widlake
With Paul Griffiths and Robert McKenzie

Philip Jenkinson presents a profile of one of the leading exponents of French New Wave cinema and introduces the first of the films in the current World, Cinema season

9.10 Alphaville
Starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Special agent Lemmy Caution is sent on a mission through space to Alphaville to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his predecessor and Professor von Braun, a famous scientist.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson present a round-up of what's going on in the film world including the screen version of Peter Nichols's play The National Health and Woody Allen's latest Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex; and Patricia Neal comments on her role in Baxter.

with David Tindall
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