Today's story is "Potato Cuts" by Joanna Cole
In Newcastle upon Tyne they plan to obviate the expensive solutions to urban congestion by bringing back the tram and making public transport more convenient.
with Peter Woods
Weather
looks at the World
People - places - events - trends and developments as seen by reporters and camera teams from the television networks of Eastern and Western Europe.
Introduced by Derek Hart
introduced by David Jones
Apocalypse
John Martin is unique among English Romantic painters. He became celebrated and immensely popular in the early 1800s as the creator of huge Biblical canvases and prints and engravings of doom and destruction, one of which hung above the Bronte sisters' bed and used to give them nightmares. He was a social visionary too, and worked out farsighted schemes for combating the effects of the Industrial Revolution, with vast sewage works and water supply plants. But they were far ahead of their time, and eventually reduced Martin to bankruptcy. Review traces the life and work of a man who was perhaps the first 'environmentalist.'
Victoria on a Spree
Little is known about Queen Victoria's visit to the West Indies, but Jonathan Routh has uncovered a revealing journal of the great lady's last years and has celebrated Her Majesty's many pastimes during this eventful holiday with an exhibition of paintings which goes on public view this week.
(Radio Times People: page 5)
(Colour)
Professor of Heavy Electrical Engineering, Imperial College, London, reading his personal choice of poetry and prose with Rupert Davies
Before an invited audience at the Gustave Tuck Theatre, University College, London.
Written by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus
Highlights from the recent series starring Spike Milligan
and featuring John Bluthal
with Edward Underdown, Fanny Carby, Alan Clare, Charlie Atom
and this week's guests: Arthur Negus, Max Robertson, Eleanor Bron, Ray Ellington, Nosher Powell, Gary O'Brien, Lincoln Webb, Rudolph Walker.
(Colour)
What are the drugs? How dangerous are they? Whom can parents and teenagers go to for help and advice?
