6.30 In Russia Today 2: Life in the Towns
...where flats are allotted according to family size and boss and worker belong to the same trade union.
Peter Frank of Essex University with Russian people and British sovietologists, examines housing, shopping and work conditions and asks - are Russians really enjoying a consumer revolution?
Producer Hugh Purcell
7.0 pm Perspective Panto Time
Last night Cinderella at the London Palladium opened the new pantomime season.
Adrian Rendle discusses the traditions and conventions of pantomime, its popularity and its development as theatrical entertainment, with Arthur Askey, Ronnie Corbett Albert J. Knight Dereck Salberg, Margaret Drabble Producer Edith R. Baer
(Rptd: Saturday, 1 January,
11.30 am. R4)
(Cover story: see page 3)