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A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest - plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear
with Michael De Morgan

Weather

The second of three programmes with Geoffrey Moorhouse talking to people about insights into reality glimpsed through drugs, madness or mysticism.

Madness: with Mary Barnes and Morag Coate who have both been mad, and two doctors who knew them in their illnesses.

Cod wars and volcanic eruptions put Iceland on the front page, but what's behind these headlines? Why do the Icelanders so fiercely defend the cod?

The Other Iceland is the story of a people with a toe-hold on an inhospitable rock where only one per cent is farmable. Living against these odds they've been forced to exploit their wildlife: eider ducks, seabirds, whales and fish. But in general, over a thousand years, they've established an enviable balance of which they're fiercely proud. Perhaps it's this long struggle that now makes them so unwilling to take risks?
(from Bristol)

by Gerald Frow
Starring Ronnie Barker

To old Sam Cobbett it seems like the end of the line. In retirement after 30 years as an engine-driver his life seems to be running out of steam.

Some sights and sounds of India

A Workshop programme about Johann Sebastian Bach's six famous concertos Narrated by Kenneth van Barthold and Raymond Leppard who also conducts the English Chamber Orchestra

The soloists: Kenneth Sillito (violin), Neil Black (oboe), Richard Adeney, Norman Knight (flutes), Ifor James, Anthony Randall (horns)

by Carey Harrison
With Philip Latham as Alec and Maureen O'Brien as Helen

The presence of Helen's parents on holiday recalls an old life.

Starring The Young Generation and Vince Hill
with guests The Supremes, Frank Ifield
Introduced by Terry Wogan
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

Weather

Keith Dewhurst, William Rushton and John Wells invite you to stay up late; guests include William Davis and Harvey Matusow.