Story: "The Bald Twit Lion" by Spike Milligan and Carol Barker
Guest storyteller James Blades

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Scenes from an Elizabethan life by Alison Plowden
Book 70p: see page 66

Weather

with Percy Thrower from 'The Magnolias,' Shropshire
Percy Thrower prepares for his summer display by planting in his borders and in tubs on the patio and verandah.
(from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Tuesday afternoon, BBC1)
Percy Thrower's Guide to Gardeners' World, 50p. see page 66

Many countries have to run very hard to stay in the same place. Most of the money that Ghana earns goes to service a debt of £360-million left by Nkrumah in 1966. The basic problem is the price of cocoa: it is 55 per cent of Ghana's export earnings and has proved an unreliable launching pad for economic take-off.
Now Ghana can only get out of the red if cocoa prices rise, and carry on rising; or if she can somehow break away from dependence on cocoa. In the past prices on the world markets have fallen by as much as £160 a ton in three years. Is the world's market working in such a way that Ghana, and countries like her, can never break out of their vicious circle of debt?
David Taylor reports from Ghana and Keith Kyle from London
Presented by Brian Widlake
with Paul Griffiths, Robert McKenzie

Philip Jenkinson presents a profile of this gifted director of elegant French films and introduces the first in the current series of World Cinema films.

(Ma Nuit chez Maud)
Starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Francoise Fabian

After ten years abroad Jean-Louis, a solitary young engineer, returns home. He becomes convinced that he will marry Francoise, a student. Then one evening he is introduced to Maud...
This Week's Films: page 9

with Peter Woods; Weather

A filmed report from this year's Cannes Festival which has become the biggest and most glamorous showplace in the world for buying and selling films. Also tonight's announcement from Cannes of the winner of the Grand Jury prize for the best film of 1973.