Story: "Clarence the Clockwork Clown" by Don and Julie Spencer
Illustrated by Laurence Henry
Guest storyteller Bonnie Dobson

(Colour)

Third Test: England v New Zealand: First day
Further coverage up to the close of play from Headingley

and from 4.15
Wimbledon 1973: The Lawn Tennis Championships: The semi-finals of the Men's Singles Championship
direct from the All England Club
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the late afternoon news and the 'live' action direct from the famous Centre Court.

(Colour)

Weather

with Johnny Morris
From its sources in the Swiss Alps down to the North Sea, he explores the towns and countryside around this great river.

'Forget about the Rhine for a while and dawdle in this surprising scenery... the beautiful Black Forest... 2,000 square miles of perfect pictureland... the whole of this landscape has been in deep freeze since about 1895... even the Rhine has to play second fiddle to this sort of scenery.'
(from Bristol)

The fifth of a series of six programmes

Every day almost a thousand workers retire. Suddenly the ordinary daily habits of a lifetime come to an end. Contact is lost with workmates.
Time hangs when there's still 40 hours a week to fill, and only pension money to spend. For many people retirement is the major crisis in their lives and few are prepared for it.
Introduced by Barry Askew

by Alberto Moravia
Dramatised in four parts by Ray Lawler
Starring Margaret Whiting

Fearful of advancing troops, Cesira and Rosetta have left Rome. Their train was bombed and they took to the road until they found shelter at a farm.

Six weeks ago a man called Louis Juneau went through a pioneering operation which gives him control over his own pain. To damp down the suffering that was ruining his life he turns a dial.

Most of us wish we could completely switch off the pains we feel in everyday life. Sometimes, like women you can see being hynotised to help deliver their babies, we can do exactly that. But the history of accidents that has befallen the remarkable family of pain-free children appearing in this programme shows pain is essential - as a danger signal. In pain clinics all over the country it's the long-lasting suffering that doctors need to control. A scientific detective story that begins with the question of why you rub an injury to make it better is now turning up clues to techniques which could realise the age-old dream - mastery over pain.

from Wimbledon
Highlights of the men's semi-finals day
Introduced by Harry Carpenter

(Colour)

with John Edmunds
Weather

From the Council House, Birmingham
Birmingham City Council helped make television history when it allowed outside broadcast cameras inside the Council Chamber to show local democracy at work. Local Authorities spend hundreds of millions of pounds on our behalf every year. The part-time, unpaid politicians set the pattern of much of our life, even more than Westminster does, but their work - and decision-making - goes unnoticed.
(from Birmingham)