Today's story is "The Big River" by Elizabeth and Gerald Rose
with Peter Woods
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Each national television network sees the world differently from any other. How different these viewpoints are can be examined on Europa, which presents film reports by European television networks on world events.
Introduced by Derek Hart
Introduced by James Mossman
Reggae is the rock music of the West Indies. It is gay, funny, aggressive, and sarcastic. This product of a former colonial people was imported into Britain by immigrants in the mid-sixties. Tonight Review is devoted to an exciting film about the music and the people who perform it, made by Trinidadian Horace Ove and featuring singers Millie and Desmond Dekker.
(Radio Times People: page 4)
A bubbly French farce translated and adapted by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin.
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A debate recorded at Durham University Union.
The motion: That the media of mass communication is becoming increasingly harmful.
For the Proposition:
Mrs Kathleen Maiden, Conservative councillor and broadcaster
John Oxberry, NE Division, British Communist Party
For the Opposition:
David Wade, radio critic of The Times
Anthony Firth, Controller Programmes, Scottish Television