Story: "Aunt Jessie's Hat" by Wilma Horsbrugh
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.25pm)

The Lawn Tennis Championships

BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you a courtside view of the eighth day's play and the best of the action, featuring The Quarter-finals of the Men's Singles

Commentaries by Dan Maskell, Jack Kramer, Bill Knight, Peter West, Bill Threlfall and John Barrett

News and results from Harry Carpenter

Weather

A series of five programmes in which Kenneth Clark examines different aspects of the life and work of the man he describes as "not only one of the greatest artists that ever lived but one who touches us almost personally in a way that no other great artist does."
In his extraordinary series of paintings, charting his progress from confident youth to solitary old age, Rembrandt became the first artist to make the self-portrait a major means of artistic expression. For Lord Clark they are not just the record of a life but the crucial evidence of the painter's personality.
Preview: page 13

A Personal History of the United States, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke
To give Americans a more abundant life was the stated aim of President Franklin Roosevelt when he put through the development programmes of the 'New Deal.'
In this last programme, Alistair Cooke travels from New England to Hawaii in considering how far the United States has lived up to this and other of its earlier aspirations.
It was impossible to see him go without a tear. (VIRGINIA IRONSIDE, DAILY MAIL) It has succeeded in presenting what I thought was impossible - a balanced view of his extraordinary adopted country. (BENNY GREEN, JEWISH CHRONICLE)
Book, "Alistair Cooke's America", £6.50, from bookshops

Starring Alan Alda, Lauren Hutton

Journalist George Plimpton has made his name going in among the professionals and doing their thing. His latest idea is to play quarter-back with the Detroit Lions football team which is tantamount to offering unarmed combat against a pack of blood-crazed gorillas. The film is described as 'an amiable fiction' in the life of George Plimpton, but the scenes in the Detroit Lions' training camp are real enough with professional players and coaches as themselves.

Films: Page 9

The Lawn Tennis Championships

Recorded highlights of the outstanding match on the eighth day's play. Dan Maskell and Jack Kramer comment on the action which is introduced by Harry Carpenter.

Richard Whitmore; Weather

Jill Balcon reads "The British Museum Reading Room" by Louis MacNeice