Today's story is "Grotty and the Plumbing" by Catherine Forrest

The closing stages of the semi-finals introduced by Harry Carpenter

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight
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A Television Literary Quiz

"A large, irregular area of the turned-back part of the blanket was missing; an area about the size of the palm of his hand in the main part of the top blanket was missing. Through the three holes which, appropriately enough, had black borders, he could see a dark brown mark on the second blanket. He ran a finger round a bit of the hole in the sheet, and when he looked at his finger it bore a dark-grey stain. That meant ash; ash meant burning; burning must mean cigarettes. Had this cigarette burnt itself out on the blanket? If not, where was it now? Nowhere on the bed; nor in it."

Who wrote it? Do you like it? Alan Brien asks Elizabeth Bowen, A.S. Byatt, Cyril Connolly, Peter Porter for their opinions and reactions to this and other quotations.

(From Manchester)

Each week Europa looks at what the Continent's 350 million television viewers are seeing on their receivers at home.
On stations like TSS Moscow, NDR Hamburg, ORTF Paris. SSR Geneva, and a host of others.
For wherever there is a story the film crews of our television colleagues on the other side of the Channel are there reporting and commenting.
Introduced by Derek Hart

by Shelagh Delaney

Nanny (Agnes Lauchlan, above [photo]) has spent her life raising four children and a grand piano - and then...

Against the Odds
The first in a series of Review films about the theatre outside London looks at actors and their situation.
The average actor leads an arduous and erratic life working less than half the year and earning much less than the average unskilled worker. The odds against achieving success and financial security are enormous.
Review went to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, to find out from a cross-section of the company what makes them do it.

Nucleus
Nucleus is unique amongst modern jazz bands. A quintet made up of the cream of British modern jazz talent. It is backed by a powerful rock rhythm section including John Marshall, voted top instrumentalist of last year by Melody Maker. Their music is powerful and inventive, and leader Ian Carr's new work 'Solar Plexus' has interested both jazz and classical enthusiasts.
Review invites Carr and Nucleus into the studio to give a sample of their special blend of formal jazz and progressive pop.

sings Joni Mitchell

The first in a series of concert performances by the new generation of performer-composers. Tonight Joni Mitchell's repertoire includes her first hit Both Sides Now, her new song California, as well as Big Yellow Taxi and Chelsea Morning.

(Joni Mitchell - baring the poetic soul: page 13)
(Next week: John Sebastian)

Michael Dean looks back over the week with William Rushton, James Cameron and other people, other views