11:00

Play School: Dressing-Up Day

BBC Two

Tue 27^th Jan 1970, 11:00 on BBC Two England

Today's story is "The Sailor" by Dick Bruna

Contributors

Presenter:: Carole Ward
Presenter:: Gordon Clyde
Author (The Sailor):: Dick Bruna

Source: Radio Times

11:20

Closedown

BBC Two

Tue 27^th Jan 1970, 11:20 on BBC Two England

Source: Radio Times

19:05

The Public Purse: Part 3: Cashing In

BBC Two

Tue 27^th Jan 1970, 19:05 on BBC Two England

The Government this year is giving out Â£3,500-million worth of social security in hard cash. Who gets it, how and why?
Presented by Maurice Peston
With Anne Lapping, Jack Wiseman

Contributors

Presenter:: Maurice Peston
Speaker:: Anne Lapping
Speaker:: Jack Wiseman
Series Adviser:: Samuel Brittan
Director:: Bryn Brooks
Producer:: Richard Hooper

Source: Radio Times

19:30

Newsroom

BBC Two

Tue 27^th Jan 1970, 19:30 on BBC Two England

Reporting the world tonight
John Timpson and Peter Woods
and Weather

Contributors

Newsreader:: John Timpson
Newsreader:: Peter Woods

Source: Radio Times

20:00

The Borderers: What a Vengeance upon England

BBC Two

Tue 27^th Jan 1970, 20:00 on BBC Two England

by Anthony Steven
[Starring] Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Gambon, Edith Macarthur
Guest stars John Harvey, Eric Flynn, Morag Hood

Cessford tries to marry off his troublesome ward to the son of Sir John Forster, the English Warden. The romance is complicated by a splendid Arab stallion which nearly turns Cupid's arrows into the more lethal kind.

Contributors

Writer:: Anthony Steven
Series created by:: Bill Craig
Designer:: Chris Pemsel
Script editor:: Martin Worth
Associate producer:: Michael Glynn
Producer:: Anthony Coburn
Director:: Lennie Mayne
Cessford:: Iain Cuthbertson
Gavin Ker:: Michael Gambon
Margaret Ker:: Edith MacArthur
Jamie Ker:: Ross Campbell
Rab:: James Garbutt
Pringle:: Russell Waters
Agnes Ker:: Eileen Nicholas
Grizel Ker:: Margaret Greig
Sir John Forster:: John Harvey
Arnold Forster:: Eric Flynn
Isabel Rutherford:: Morag Hood
Robbie:: Roy Boyd
Ned:: Rex Robinson
Dirk:: Roy Sampson
Tam:: Michael McGovern
Jack:: Derrick Gilbert

Source: Radio Times

20:50

While We're On the Subject: Show Business

BBC Two

Tue 27^th Jan 1970, 20:50 on BBC Two England

A new quiz series
This week: Show Business
John Tusa asks Beryl Reid, Wilfred Pickles, Charles Chilton for facts and opinions about the world of entertainment

Contributors

Chairman:: John Tusa
Panellist:: Beryl Reid
Panellist:: Wilfred Pickles
Panellist:: Charles Chilton
Production Team:: Julia Matheson
Production Team:: Diana Lashmore
Producer:: Leslie Megahey

Source: Radio Times

21:10

Hollywood in the Sixties: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

BBC Two

Tue 27^th Jan 1970, 21:10 on BBC Two England

Tonight a John Ford film in this new season of outstanding films of the past ten years from the movie capital starring James Stewart, John Wayne with Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien

Produced by Paramount in 1962, tonight's film comes from Hollywood's greatest 'Western' director - John Ford, whose partnership with John Wayne dates back to Stagecoach.
James Stewart plays an Easterner, armed only with his law school training, who sets about ridding the town of Shinbone of a ruthless gunman... the notorious Liberty Valance, played with relish by Lee Marvin.