Today's story: "Danny Fox" by David Thomson
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(to 11.20)
Ten programmes for home dress-makers who want to extend their skill and keep up to date with fashion trends
Fashion comments: David Bond
Demonstrations: Ann Ladbury
Fitting: Beryl Rouse
Accompanying booklet: see page 17
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, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Football Manager
Half a million people go to Football League matches every Saturday, and for every one who goes ten watch a game on television. Association Football is more than a game, an industry, or a way of life. It is an institution. Players become heroes, winning teams become symbols of national pride. But a football team is only as successful as its manager, and in football only the successful survive. If the team wins, the players get the credit; if it loses, too often the manager gets the sack. Already this season nearly half the ninety-two Football League managers have lost their jobs. Since the war more than 700 have been fired or have resigned.
Two years ago, when Arsenal were an indifferent middle-of-the-first division side, the club physiotherapist, Bertie Mee, was appointed manager. Now they are in the final of the League Cup, and are challengers for the League Championship. For the last two years, Bradford Park Avenue have been at the bottom of the fourth division and this season have to seek re-election for the third successive year. Their hopes rest on the new appointment of player-manager Laurie Brown, formerly an English amateur international, centre-half with Arsenal, Tottenham, and Norwich.
What does it mean to be a football manager, to have one of the most precarious jobs in show business where success is measured in goals and failure means almost certain dismissal?
See colour feature on page 34
(Colour)
with Percy Thrower
From the Midlands
See page 39
(Colour)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
by Aldo Nicolaj
A series of plays specially written by famous authors featuring distinguished English and Continental actresses in solo performances
[Starring] Lila Kedrova
Francesca has an obsession with cleanliness. When her wartime attempt to buy soap in Milan fails she embarks on an unusual course to procure some.
(Colour)
The end of today in front of tomorrow
with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
(Colour)
