A lively look at words and letters with Donald Gee, Bob Hoskins and Martin Shaw, Gay Hamilton
Weather Barbara Edwards
With Bob Langley, Donny MacLeod, David Seymour, Marian Foster and Jan Leeming
with Vicki Luke.
(Repeat)
by Nicolai Gogol from the translation by David Magarshack
Presenters Carol Chell, Don Spencer
with Marsha Hunt
Sophia Scrooby Preserved by MARTHA BACON
Today: The Pirate Ship
with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
with Angela Rippon
Weatherman
Look North, South Today, Look East, Midlands Today, Points West and Spotlight South West
Then at 6.20 the scene Nationwide
With Michael Barratt, Frank Bough, Dilys Morgan, Valerie Singleton and Bob Wellings
(Regional details as Monday)
Introduced by Dave Lee Travis
Top of the Pops Orchestra
A series of eight programmes
Starring Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler
with Robert Keegan
and Neville Barber, Mervyn Saunders
Another episode starring Telly Savalas as Police Lieutenant Theo Kojak
with Angela Rippon and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weather
A series of six programmes in which Esther Rantzen meets six talented people - all amateurs in their field - who are given a chance to take part in a spectacular professional event. They go behind the scenes in the worlds of show business, journalism, music, horse-racing, fashion and haute cuisine.
This week, Mrs Gwen Troake, a farmer's wife from Devon, plans the menu for a banquet at the Dorchester Hotel, London. It is a Foyle's Literary Lunch in honour of Edward Heath, and Gwen meets Fanny Cradock, chef Eugene Kaufeler, Robert Morley, Magnus Pyke and many other experts she has always admired, who advise her how to tackle The Big Time.
Introduced by Humphrey Burton
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold
And commerce settles on every tree
And the poor and the old can live upon gold
For all are born poor, aged sixty-three.
Is this an apt description of Britain in 1976? William Blake wrote it in 1808. Eight years after the Hornsey College disturbances, a film journey of exploration through the world of art and design education by Lil Smith, Convenor of shop stewards, GEC, Coventry, and Ken Garland, freelance designer. After the film a discussion with ex-Hornsey staff and students.
with John Timpson and Denis Tuohy
including News Headlines
The Suez Affair 4: Invasion
Anthony Eden's position crumbles as the Americans assert their influence, and Hugh Gaitskell's television attack divides opinion throughout the country. Keith Kyle examines immediate and long-term effects of The Suez Affair...
