Special Programmes The Lorry Driver
This film from That Monday Morning Feeling series looks at the working life of BOB HARMAN. He drives 2,000 miles a week, eats in transport cafes, sleeps in 20-bed dormitories and can only be sure of seeing his family at weekends. Reporter HAROLD WILLIAMSON Producer richard THOMAS
Weatherman MICHAEL FISH
BOB LANGLEY, MARIAN FOSTER
DAVID SEYMOUR and DONNY MACLEOD present the ideas, activities, music and personalities of the day - including Food for Thought with Ken Hutchings and Yesterday's People.
Barnaby returns from his holiday
Dancers and singers from all over the world took part this year in the Tenth Billingham International Folklore Festival.
More than 500 performers from 12 countries including:
JAPAN-dances of the Samurai; ROMANIA - instrumentalists from Transylvania; USSR-dances and song from the Ukraine; USAexhibLtion square dances; PUERTO RICO - primitive bomba dances
Michael Rodd introduces some of the spectacular moments from this colourful, exuberant festival.
Television presentation TONY HARRISON (From Manchester)
by John Galsworthy.
Dramatised by Donald Wilson.
Starring Eric Porter, Nyree Dawn Porter, Susan Hampshire, Nicholas Pennell
On her return home from a trip around the world with Soames, Fleur has met Jon again. He and Anne have decided to make their home in England.
(Guess who's coming to dinner with Susan Hampshire in the Generation Game Radio Times Christmas Special, from newsagents 35p)
A programme for children under 5 Presenters
CAROL CHELL , FRED HARRIS
The lazy law-man's at it again. Look out for trouble,
with Denholm Elliott
The Iron Man by TED HUGHES
Today: The Space-Being and the Iron Man
with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
Blue Peter Eleventh Book. 70p, from boolishops
with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman
Look North, South Today
Look East, Midlands Today
Points West, Spotlight South West including an invitation from
Susan Stranks and Brian Widlake to join them Down Memory Lane
Discs, stars and the news from this week's Top Thirty.
Introduced by Jimmy Savile TOP OF THE POPS ORCHESTRA
Musical director JOHNNY PEARSON PAN'S PEOPLE
Choreography FLICK COLBY Sound RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN Director BRUCE MILLIARD Producer ROBIN NASH
Weigh-up Pan's People in The Generation Game RADIO TIMES CHRISTMAS
SPECIAL, from newsagents 35p.
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson The third Semi-final match comes from the University of Surrey at Guildford and the contestants are: IAN CLARK (East Midlands) ELIZABETH HORROCKS (Wales) DOUGAL PURVES (Scotland) JOHN STARK (South West)
Director PETER MASSEY Producer BILL WRIGHT
with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods ; Weather
by William Trevor
with Colin Douglas as Father, Doreen Mantle as Mother and Pauline Quirke as Eleanor
Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?
The people behind the stories, the people the stories affect, and the people with something to say. Introduced by Ludovic Kennedy
Tom Mangold , Vincent Hanna , Michael Cockerell , Bill Kerr Elliott, David Jessel , Julian Mounter and David Lomax are the Midweek correspondents.
Deputy editor JOHN GAU
Editor PETER PAGNAMENTA
Regional News
Weatherman
A series of ten films about the Cold War in Europe 9: Policies of Movement
West Germany had already begun to develop its own policy towards Eastern Europe in the late 1950s. In spite of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 and perhaps because of the Brezhnev doctrine, this policy finally evolved into Chancellor Brandt's Ostpolitik.
Introduced by John Tusa with Ludwig Erhard
Karl Moersch , Klaus Schutz
Director JOHN EIDINOW
Producer HOWARD SMITH
Book (same title): 80p, from bookshops John Tusa writes in wday's Listener
Closedown