Today's story is 'The Surprise Party'
Written and illustrated by Pat Hutchins
At Thames Road Primary School, Blackpool, broadcasts are used to supply teachers with new material. This programme shows how the content of broadcasts is used as resource material in the teaching follow-up in the classroom.
Introduced by David Smeeton
Reporting the world tonight Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
and Weather
A duel of words and wit between Antonia Fraser, Clive Dunn, Clement Freud and Geoffrey Wheeler, Joanna Jones, Muriel Pavlow
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)
Looking at the news and the men behind the news in the world of money, including The Trendy Trip
The usual factory outing is beer, pork pies, and communal singing on the way to the seaside. The trendy trip today, especially if you work for a foreign company, is to visit the parent plant. The Money Programme followed 60 workers from Birmingham on a whistle-stop tour through Sweden. Were they seduced by the highest standard of living in the world?
Presented by Brian Widlake, Alan Watson, John Tusa, Jeffery Thomas
Based on "The Book Bag"
Dramatised by David Turner
[Starring] Eileen Atkins as Olive Hardy, Edward Fox as Tim Hardy, Martin Potter as Mark Featherstone
Olive Hardy and her brother Tim are considered to be a strange pair and are classed as 'stand-offish.' Into the privacy of their lives comes Mark Featherstone, a young District Officer, who falls in love with Olive. An incident occurs and all three lives are dramatically changed.
(Colour)
(Next week: "The Closed Shop")
at the Ronnie Scott Club
Presenting each week some of the international jazz stars recorded at Europe's Number One Jazz Club.
Tonight Ronnie Scott introduces: The Gary Burton Quartet, The Stars of Faith,
The Miles Davis Quintet
Gary Burton is a vibraphone player of staggering virtuosity whose quartet reflects the way that jazz and pop are beginning to overlap. The Stars of Faith are an exciting group of black Gospel singers and Miles Davis is simply one of the most adventurous and inventive musicians in the world.
(All artists appear by arrangement with Harold Davison Ltd)
Talk, argument, people, diversion with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley