9.38 Out of the Past
Highways of Water X
10.0 Merry-go-Round
(Sex Education) Birth ‡
10.25-10.45 History 1917-73
China: from War to Revolution ‡
11.0 Colour Watch!
The taste of things: 1 - tea tasters and food tasters - the experts in action. Presented by JEAN ROGERS and STEPHEN BRADLEY Producer TOM STANIER
11.18 Going to Work Out of a Job
A look at the country
with BOB LANGLEY, MARIAN FOSTER DAVID SEYMOUR and DONNY MACLEOD and a chat about today's weather With BARBARA EDWARDS at 1.30
(Colour)
2.2 Music Time: 24
2.25 Television Club: Follow Him ‡
'A walking actress-and-bishop joke' - that's how the novelist Michael Frayn describes Laurence Sterne, author of one of the funniest novels in the English language, Tristram Shandy. In this film he visits Shandy Hall, near York where it was written.
The programme that tells the inside stories about police work - and invites the views of the public. Introduced by DAVID SEYMOUR With MIKE DORNAN
Director PHILIP FRANKLIN
Editor BRIAN GIBSON (Birmingham)
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It's a great shame that Grace can't drive. When a holiday is at stake, Albert decides the time has come for Grace to learn. Sad to say, it turns out to be a 'crash' course in more ways than one!
Slip and Slap House Painting
with Phyllida Law
The Nine Lives of Island Mackenzie by URSULA MORAY WILLIAMS Today: Go away, Cat!'
Introduced by Johnny Morris The World of Animals
In the wild, in the zoo, at home-a magazine of stories about animals illustrating their magic.
Directors George INGER , ROBIN HELLIER
Producer Douglas THOMAS (from Bristol)
with Richard Baker ; Weather
bringing you news and views (including Regional Weather) Presented by MICHAEL BARRATT FRANK BOUGH , BOB WELLINGS and SUE LAWLEY
A Western adventure series Lady at the Bar ‡ starring
Trampas lands into serious trouble but luckily his lawyer is as clever as she is attractive.
presents
The Dobson Doughnut by RAYMOND ALLEN starring with THE PORTSMOUTH YOUTH BAND conducted by E. G. LEGGETT
Musical arangements by ALAN ROPER Signature music by RON GRAINER Designer PAUL ALLEN
Producer MICHAEL MILLS
with Richard Baker and Richard Whitmore Weather
A film about the biggest domestic upheaval of the century, and the conflict between people and local authorities, resulting from the corporation rehousing programmes which are changing almost every city in Britain.
A Council Tenant: "They don't look up to you like they did in the old areas. They're the officials and they let you know they're the officials."
A Council Official: "They weren't like this when they lived in the streets. God love us, when they want their shoelaces tying they want one of us to go round and tie them for them."
Tonight's film follows step by well-intentioned step the process that has demolished a life-style and in the best of faith lumbered people with the kind of home that nobody asked for and few seem to flourish in.
Barry Norman looks at the film world with a preview of Jack Nicholson 's Oscar-nominated performance in The Last Detail and news of the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, including reactions to the British entry, Ken Russell 's Mahler.
Producer PATRICIA WOOD
What's On/Regional News
2 : Christ in Suffering
There is a parallel between the suffering of man and the suffering of Christ -but what has one to do with the other? Speakers include Vera von der Heydt , Fr Harry Williams Lehmkuhl and Donald Lehmkuhl Narrated by Patrick Garland Readers Eileen Atkins and Michael Hordern
Producer SHIRLEY DU BOULAY