6.40 Wealth in Britain

7.30 20th-Century Poetry

A programme for children under 5 Today's story
The Balloon Seller by CATHERINE GAVIN Presenters
CHLOE ASHCROFT
JONA JONES
Pianist PAUL READE
Designer JOHN ANDERSON
Written and directed by ALBERT BARBER
Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

4.55 Impact of the Telescope

5.20 The Interatomic Forces

6.10 Social Psychology Laboratory

6.35 The Image of Empire

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

Practical hints and tips on how to make your money go further and how to do more for yourself in and around the home.
With
ZENA SKINNER , cookery expert
GEOFFREY SMITH , gardening expert ROY DAY , do-it-yourself expert
VAL HUDSON , consumer journalist
This week's programme is the last in the present series. It includes a beginners' guide to patchwork, tips on taking geranium cuttings, and making a crunchy lemon pie.
Directors BRIAN DAVIES , ERICA GRIFFITHS Producer PETER RIDING
For a free information sheet giving details of the items shown in the programme, send a large stamped, addressed envelope to: Information Sheet No 20, Indoors Outdoors, [address removed]
Starting next Wednesday on BBC2: a repeat showing of Geoffrey Smith 's series Mr Smith's Vegetable Garden.

Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion, including every Friday Westminster Report presented by David Holmes
Newsreader Richard Baker
Editor JOHN TISDALL

from Clacks Farm
Glass or pvc? Corrugated or plain? Barn or Cloche? Peter Seabrook and Arthur Billitt compare the pros and cons of some of the bewildering number of cloches now on the market, and put them to good use over early sowings of salad crops and other vegetables. In the greenhouse Peter takes cuttings of chrysanthemums and makes further sowings of summer bedding plants.
Producer BARRIE EDGAR BBC Birmingham

The Green Pound
What is the green pound? This week, Common Market ministers meet to discuss devaluation of the green pound. Farmers would welcome a devaluation, but for housewives it would mean higher food prices. Why?
Bill Kerr Elliott reports.
Producer NIGEL HOUGHTON Editor PAUL ELLIS

BBC2 Snooker Championship
The llth frame in the 16-week series for the 1977 Pot Black Trophy.
Tonight's game from Group Three features
Ray Reardon , the World Snooker Champion, against
Perrie Mans , the South African Snooker Champion
The third and last game in this group, with every point vital to each player's chance of reaching the semi-finals.
Introduced by ALAN WEEKS
Referee SYDNEY LEE
Commentator TED LOWE
Director JIM DUMIGHAN
Producer REG PERRIN BBC Birmingham
Book (same title), 70p, from bookshops

Suddenly there is an explosion in solar research. It began three years ago and is accelerating fast. Huge mirrors are collecting the sun in Tokyo and Denver. Giant windmills are beginning to turn in Ohio. Engineers are already testing the tools astronauts will use in space when they build a 50-square-mile satellite that will radiate solar power down to Earth. Most surprisingly, huge machines designed to sit in the tropical seas and extract power from the hot water are about to be built. Much of the work is in America and Japan but Britain is closely involved - we have, it seems, already developed the necessary technology.

But can any of these techniques be ready for when oil becomes scarce in 15 or 20 years? Will any of them be cheap enough to displace nuclear power or coal from our energy future? Some of the answers are dazzling!

by JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Dramatised in 13 parts by DAVID TURNER starring
Michael Bryant Daniel Massey The Defeated
Mathieu has been mobilised and Europe is at war. The unit MatMeu is serving with has been demoralised as the German advance across France nears Paris. Part 10: 15 June 1940 - morning
Cast in order of appearance
Producer DAVID CONROY
Director JAMES CELLAN JONES

in conversation with Iain Johnstone

Since she sprang to prominence 13 years ago in the Broadway musical Funny Girl, Miss Streisand's career has been a combination of success and controversy.

Golden Discs, Golden Globes, an Oscar for Best Actress, vast audiences and often unprecedented hysteria have accompanied her continuing rise. But also a reputation for being fractious, aloof, autocratic, and less than lovable.

In her latest film, A Star is Born, she had a much-publicised row with her director who in turn wrote a venomous article about her and her boyfriend Jon Peters, whom she made executive producer.

In this interview, she talks about these and other matters.

Weather

GABRIEL WOOLF reads
Essential Memory by ROY FULLER