Today's story: "Fish from the Sea"
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(to 11.20)
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and The Weather
(Colour)
Achievement.... Happiness... Tragedy... Stress...
A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Percival, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Justice of the Peace
If you break the law, no matter if you have murdered your wife or forgotten to pay your TV licence, the chances are that the first court to which you are summoned will be presided over by an amateur - a part-time magistrate. Out of nearly 20,000 magistrates in England and Wales, less than fifty are paid for their vocation. The vast majority are lay Justices, worthy members of society who give up part of their spare time to sit in judgment on the rest of us. They work for nothing more than the honour and the responsibility. The way they are appointed is a mystery even to them, because the selection process is shrouded in secrecy. But the majority of them, even today, are middle-class people of mature years, because they are the people most likely to have the time to spare.
It is these men and women who deal with ninety-eight per cent of all criminal cases, let alone all the petty offences like parking in restricted areas, which almost all of us commit at some time or another. The odds are that one day you will appear before a Justice of the Peace. What kind of people are they? What sort of qualifications do they have? Are they the right people for the enormously responsible job they have to do?
Report by John Percival
(Colour)
with Percy Thrower who introduces this new series from his own garden and talks about some of its features
From the Midlands
Percy Thrower writes about Gardeners' World on page 33
(Colour)
A selection of musical milestones from the golden days of the silver screen
Tonight: the 1955 production Three for the Show
Starring Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Marge and Gower Champion
After being reported dead, a soldier returns to New York to find that his wife - a Broadway star - has married his best friend...
(Colour)
by Frank Marcus
A series of plays specially written by famous authors featuring distinguished English and Continental actresses in solo performances
[Starring] Lynn Redgrave
In her Bayswater bedsitter Carole re-reads with embarrassment the diary in which she recorded some of her social mishaps as a school-girl. On contemplating her latest mishap as an ingenuous au-pair girl she decides not to make any more entries in her diary
(March 5: Lila Kedrova in "Soap and Water" by Aldo Nicolaj)
Lynn Redgrave's appearances at the National Theatre revealed an outstanding talent. Later, films like Georgy Girl and Smashing Time confirmed this. Lynn has just finished filming The Virgin Soldiers.
(Colour)
The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)
