Story: "The Secret Present" by John Yeoman
Illustrations by Quentin Blake
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)
(to 19.00)
Introduced by Derek Hart
(Linked with Radio 3, Friday 7.0 pm. Publications: page 13)
with Peter Woods
Weather
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
Most of us believe and are thankful that Great Britain has probably the best police force in the world. Nevertheless there are complaints about police behaviour; allegations of violence; accusations of racial discrimination, corruption and prejudice.
When a complaint is made by any member of the public against the police it is made to the police, investigated by the police and judged within the police force. Many policemen are discontent with this system which, they say, sometimes penalises them while under investigation and frequently hampers their desire to be seen to be just. How well does the present system work and what effective changes could - or even should - take place? Is it fair to either side that police are cast in the role of both judge and jury when it comes to complaints about their own behaviour?
In Man Alive tonight policemen, lawyers and members of the public discuss the present situation and consider the future.
The great British international guitarist in the first of two programmes of classical and Spanish music.
Bach Prelude in D
Falla Homenaje: Le tombeau de Debussy
Turina Fandanguillo
(May 26: music by Visse and Granados)
(Radio Times People: page 5)
(Colour)
The Final is just one frame away for World Champion Spencer or Midland Champion Gary Owen.
Introduced by Alan Weeks.
(Colour)
by Edward Boyd
with William Lucas as Shawlor Gascoyne
The East Anglian village of Plampton has one distinction: a famous unsolved murder. To conclude his current series on famous cases, a cynical journalist decides to go down to Plampton and see what he can stir up.
(Colour)
In the 20s and 30s there were many depressed areas in Britain, but Jarrow on Tyneside was one of the worst hit. Some men had been unemployed for 15 years. Jarrow's MP, Ellen Wilkinson, called it "the town that was murdered". In 1936, 200 unemployed Jarrow men marched some 300 miles to London to lay a petition before the House of Commons. They called it a Crusade and organised it with military efficiency. The story of that march is told in tonight's programme by Alderman David Riley, the marshal of the march; Alderman Paddy Scullion, J.B. Symonds and S.J. Rowan, his lieutenants; Mrs. Jean Clark, on the administrative side; and Lord Ritchie-Calder, then a journalist on the Daily Herald.
(Colour)
