Poem of the Week "The Tide in the River" by Eleanor Farjeon
"The Magic Hat" by John Styles

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Introduced by Brian Redhead
With Professor John Morris

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore

Like to tow the family caravan at 80-miles-an-hour over forest tracks without breaking the crockery? That's what Pat Moss-Carlsson and 120 other mobile home-owners were doing for 48 hours in the British Caravan Road Rally. Barrie Gill reports on who won and why.

Is 'cut-price' petrol really cheap?
In the first four years of the Trade Descriptions Act there have been more than 40 successful prosecutions for misleading motorists. Tonight's programme looks at some of the free gifts and garage give-aways now involved in the petrol stations' cut-price war.

A portrait of the great artist who died earlier this month
with Sir Roland Penrose, Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler, Francoise Gilot, Michael Ayrton, Manitas de Plata, Claude Picasso
This special programme was made for CBS Reports at the time of Picasso's 90th birthday and is written and narrated by Charles Collingwood

(Colour)

BBC2 Snooker Competition
From the League of Champions: Fred Davis, ten times World Snooker Champion, v Rex Williams, the World's Billiards Champion.
A vital game for both players as they strive to reach the semi-finals.
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)

by Hugh Whitemore
[Starring] Keith Barron as David Duncan, Mary Miller as Jenny Duncan, Peter Bowles as Frank Cordroy, Ann Lynn as Madge Gallagher and Ray Brooks as Steve Abelman

'I can't get him out of my mind: a strange little man, clenched like a fist, knotted-up with impossible problems.'

Bob Harris with the news, views and sounds of today's music.
In the studio Birtha and John David Souther plus album tracks, films, guests

with John Edmunds
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