Scouting - The Myth and the Reality

starring Van Ueflin with Anne Bancroft
Richard Boone , Lee Marvin
Based on an actual incident in the Civil War, Van Heflin plays the major who leads a handful of men in an attack on a small Vermont town to avenge the burning of Atlanta.
Director HUGO FREGONESE
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Rivers of Pearl
The tools of his trade are a glass-bottomed bucket and a cleft ash-stick, his job is an eternal treasure hunt-he is Bill Abernethy , the only man in Britain to have on his passport' Profession: pearl fisher.'
Producer BRIDGET WINTER

An entertainment for children starring Brian Cant
with Toni Arthur, Anne-Marie Hackett, Jonathan Cohen, Alan Rushton, Mike Ward and this week's guest Jeremy Irons
Brian and company play away with music, songs, puzzles and comedy.

The Bold Bad Bus, stories in verse from Play Away, £1.60, from bookshops

with guest stars Shelley Fabares, Dennis Cole, Walter Brooke

Johnny and Scott venture into remote and lawless mining territory to rescue a girl who has been kidnapped.

America the Beautiful?

A close look at the politicians, the tactics and progress of Parliament. Presented by PETER HILL
Editor MICHAEL PAYNE

Weather

Ireland v New Zealand Ireland, five-nations champions and in their Centenary season, play host to the magnificent men in aU black. In
1973 the Irishmen forced a creditable draw. Can they better that this afternoon?
Commentator at Lansdowne Road, Dublin BILL MCLAREN
TV presentation by the IRISH TV service Series producer BILL TAYLOR

by W. Somerset Maugham
Dramatised in three parts by Harry Green
With the help of ever-faithful Lord George, Rosie and Ted Driffield have fled Blackstable and debts. In London, success waits for Ted; and for Rosie waits the adoring young Willie Ashenden.
(Repeated: Thursday at 7.55 pm)

Continuing the series of conversations about the theatre Sir John Gielgud talks about his second cousin, the designer and writer GORDON CRAIG , whose work had a profound influence on the history of the theatre,
Producer JOHN DRUMMOND

For two, years a small group of economists in Paris have been preparing a secret report on Britain's future. They are the European Division of the world famous Hudson Institute. Their conclusions are pessimistic - they say Britain will soon be one of the poorest nations in Europe. Is the Hudson Institute right? And if so, what can we do about it? To Professor Edmund Stillman , Director of Hudson Europe, the painful truth is, we may already be beyond the point of no return.
In tonight's programme ALAN WATSON invites PROFESSOR STILLMAN to face his critics - with film reports from RICHARD WAKELY , showing how the Hudson Report was made.
Producer PETER HILL Editor JOHN DEKKER

A musical quiz
Joseph Cooper as questionmaster invites you to match your musical wits against
Joyce Grenfell Bernard Levin
Christopher Mayhew Guest musician
Kyung.Wha Chung
Director DENIS MORIARTY
Producer WALTER TODDS

Weather

A series of programmes made specially for audiences in the BBC Regions and now seen countrywide. Tonight:
The Treatment by JOHN BOSCO (BBC North West) starring Georgina Hale
Crash diets can have some grim consequences. Claire is already dangerously underweight; can the prescribed hospital treatment discover what prompts her to starve herself almost to death?
Producer RAY COLLEY Director MIKE HEALEY

starring Zachary Scott
Horace Vendig has reached his position of power through the ruthless exploitation of those around him. But in his methods lie the seeds of his own destruction
Director EDGAR G. ULMER
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