Today's story is "Desmond Goes to Scotland" by Althea
(to 19.00)
with Peter Woods
Weather
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
The row about whether or not schoolchildren and students get a fair deal from examiners rages on. Those for and against argue and snipe at each other in the columns of The Times. In the meantime, whether they like it or not, nearly every schoolchild in this country still must face a series of hurdles.
Does the present examination system continue because it is the only effective way, or do viable alternatives exist? And are new methods being ignored by reactionary forces, as critics claim? In the Man Alive studio tonight both sides of this fierce debate come together to discuss: do we need exams?
Edith Leatt, milliner to Marie Tempest, royalty and the Gaiety Girls, talks to Man Alive reporter Gillian Strickland.
From the League of Champions tonight featuring David Taylor v Rex Williams
Taylor, the youngest player taking part in the series, will be anxious to clinch his first victory. But his opponent, a Pot Black semi-finalist last year, showed impressive form in his first match.
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)
A Dialogue by Don Taylor
With Edward Woodward as The Man and Warren Mitchell as The Guard
A darkened room, a uniformed guard, locked doors - obviously one man is a prisoner, the other his guard...
(Callan takes on Alf Garnett: page 14)
'We are ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. We are three-quarters of a mile in the depths of the earth. What rocks beset the channel, what falls there are, we know not.' The words are those of John Wesley Powell who, in 1869, became the first man to navigate the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River.
A hundred years later a dozen of the world's top canoeists, backed by three rescue rafts, retraced Powell's voyage; at the bottom of a chasm over a mile deep, they too risked their lives amid the twenty-foot waves, vast whirlpools, and giant rapids of one of the most powerful rivers in the world.
Winner of First Prize in the Rank Newsreel Documentary Awards for 1970.
"One of the most thrilling action pictures ever made. It will surely go into the archives as a masterpiece of resolution and excitement." (The Sunday Times)
