Story: Orange Boats and Apple Waves by Phyllis Jowitt
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Australia v England from Sydney - Third day
Richie Benaud introduces highlights of today's play.

(Presented in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission)

(by Satellite)

with Michael Charlton.

Every weekday evening an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines follows the News Summary.

Preceded by Weather

Arthur May has been father and mother to thousands of ducklings. In his 21 years as birdkeeper on Duck Island, just opposite Buckingham Palace, he has cared for the residents of St James's Park and any birds of passage in temporary difficulties. The highlight of his year is watching his ducklings hatch in spring: the saddest moment in autumn when they leave him to go out on the lake. The continuing company of Daphne, the one-winged pelican, provides consolation. Never in his life has Arthur May had duck for dinner.

Starring Ben Murphy as Jones and Roger Davis as Smith
with guest stars J.D. Cannon, James Drury, Larry Storch

A duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell and Frank Muir
Devised by Mark Goodson, Bill Todman

With temperatures always below zero and blizzards driving at 100 mph, Antarctica is no easy place to survive in. Yet there are now more than 2,000 scientists and engineers from 14 countries who put up with the discomforts to study in such a clean and largely untouched environment.
There are Americans trying to answer the question of why cold-blooded fish don't freeze to death in the icy seas. Others are studying the seeming stupidity of the Emperor penguin in nesting not in spring but at the height of winter.
But most teams have come to use Antarctica as a great natural laboratory. From here they can study just who has polluted the earth most - man or nature herself. Using this vantage point to look through the upper atmosphere to the other side of the earth, they may learn more about the weather.
The scientific work in Antarctica, with its far reaching consequences, is dependent on the continent remaining untouched, but already natural gas has been struck and the mountains contain some of the biggest coalfields in the world.
Antarctica film by Franz Lazi Film, Stuttgart

by Howard Brenton; based on Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
' I couldn't say no. She trusted me. She'd told me she was ... murderer, assassin, criminal . . . terrorist.'

Presented by David Holmes
Weather

Gary Watson reads Smuggler's Song