Today's story:
The Flea that Jumped written by PETER WILTSHIRE Presenters
CAROL CHELL , DEREK GRIFFITHS

with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

Brush up your reading and writing With BRIAN REDHEAD and JOAN SIMS
FRANK THORNTON
BRIAN WILDE
Script BARRY TOOK
Book (same title), 11.20, from bookshops

Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion including every Thursday UK Report from BBC news correspondents in Britain. With
Richard Kershaw , David Sells
Newsreader Richard Whitmore
Editor JOHN TISDALL

Robert Robinson introduces the weekly guide to newly-published books - the authors and the readers; fact and fiction; best-sellers and remainders.
Studio director SUE MALLINSON Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYArr

with Derek Nimmo and his guests
In the fourth of this series Derek visits a health farm, and with his guests discusses a weighty problem.
Designer IAN ASHURST Director JOHN B. HOBBS
Producer GARETH GWENLAN

A series of 12 programmes Written and presented by Magnus Magnusson 4: Exodus
Few books can have given the western world so much rich inspiration as the Book of Exodus, with its stories of the parting of the Red Sea, Moses and the Ten Commandments, the gift of manna and the 40 years in the wilderness. Tonight we move from Egypt, through the spectacular Sinai desert to Mount Sinai and on through Jordan to Mount Nebo where Moses was allowed a glimpse of the Promised Land of Canaan before he died.
But which route did Exodus take?
Can the present-day desert-dwellers, the Bedouin, give us an image of life for the wandering Children of Israel? What, exactly, is manna? Why is there so little archaeological evidence for many of the places mentioned in the Exodus story? Perhaps there never was an exodus, as the Bible describes it?
Bible reader Eric Porter
Film cameramen
JOHN HOOPER , PHILIP BONHAM-CARTER Film editor IAN PITCH
Executive producer DAVID COLLISON Producer PAUL JORDAN
Book (same title), 16.50, available March, from bookshops

starring George C. Scott, Susannah York begins a new Thursday Cinema season of romantic films shown on television for the first time. This latest film version of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel is the first to be made in colour, and tells the compelling love story of a young orphan girl who falls in love with her mysterious employer.
Films: page 13

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ANTHONY ROOLEY (lute) plays Danyel Rosamund Pavan