Today: "Grandfather's Present" by Helen Palmer.

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New technologies may eventually transform city life. Meanwhile the bus could be the instrument for reducing congestion.

with Richard Whitmore; Weather

For the private investor 1971 should have been a year to make big money on the Stock Exchange. Share prices started the year low but finished it at an all-time high level. However, many investors failed to grasp the opportunity. How could they have done better, when are the best times to buy and sell, in what sectors might more be made of their money? One man who should have plenty of answers is Jim Slater, head of the giant financial empire, Slater-Walker. In tonight's Money Programme he gives his advice on how private investors can maximise their profits.

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Topical arts magazine
Introduced by David Jones

Resident at The Court
E.A. Whitehead, 38 years old, ex-schoolmaster, born in Liverpool, since June last year resident dramatist at the Royal Court Theatre, London.
His first play The Foursome was produced 'upstairs' at The Court, his new stage play, Alpha-Beta, written since his appointment, opens there 'downstairs' next week, with Albert Finney and Rachel Roberts as the two actors in a two-hander about the breakdown of a marriage.
Today Whitehead, who only recently gave up his job in teaching, is considered one of our most promising dramatists. Tonight he talks about the background he came from and the things he writes about - above all relationships between men and women; sexual, social, marital - and the way that people attack and destroy themselves

Pigeons and Paint
Ashington, right in the middle of the Northumberland coalfields - and the centre of one of the most interesting art clubs in the country, founded in the 1930s for the miners from the collieries there. Apart from racing pigeons, rearing champion whippets, and bringing up footballers - the Charlton brothers came from Ashington - these miners turned to painting and sculpture, were taken up by rich, artistic patrons, and exhibited in smart West End galleries.
Nearly 40 years later some of the original members of the club are still painting, and in this film -to mark the opening of another exhibition of their work in Durham on 25 January - they talk about their work in the pits, their lives at home, and their painting.

(David Jones is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

in 30 minutes of largely new monologues and songs
with William Blezard at the piano.
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