Story "The Jumping Flea" by Peter Wiltshire
One thousand English schoolchildren on board SS Nevasa for a fortnight's Mediterranean cruise - how 'educational' are these trips?
with Keith Graves; Weather
Desmond Wilcox talks to Mary Walters, who married an Hungarian diplomat, was imprisoned by the Nazis, sentenced to death, then exchanged for a German spy. After the war she returned to Vienna in search of her husband. The Russians arrested her as a spy, sentenced her without trial to 10 years in a Siberian prison camp. She went through every kind of suffering and became famous for her cheer-fulness and courage.
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Denis Tuohy, Desmond Wilcox and Harold Williamson
This week: Landlord and Tenant 1: Up the rent
The Government claims that its new Housing Finance Bill is the most important housing reform of this century and will mean a decent home for every family at a price within their means. Opponents say it will double rents and send house prices soaring; split the nation into the 'haves' and 'have-nots,' with millions having to face the indignity of a means test.
The first of two programmes on this controversial legislation illustrates on film both sides of the coin - the effect on council tenants, private tenants and potential house buyers; the thinking of the landlords who welcome the new Bill; and looks at the mounting opposition from local councils and rent payers.
(Radio Times People: page 5)
Before Mrs Sarah Pell was admitted to her modern flatlet in St Mary's Hospital, Chichester, she had to satisfy the trustees that she was of good character and would give 'no cause for scandal.' She is now 93 and has a vigour and sense of humour that belie her years. The 700-year-old charity she depends on may be the relic of a bygone age but she is certainly not.
(from Bristol)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
on behalf of the Labour Party
(Also on BBC1)
and Weather
Malcolm MacDonald is Britain's elder statesman of the Commonwealth. The son of Ramsay MacDonald, he entered the Cabinet in 1935 as Colonial Secretary and had an unbroken record in political and public life until retirement two years ago. He was a wartime Minister of Health High Commissioner in Canada and Kenya, Governor-General of Malaya and Borneo, and Commissioner-General in South East Asia. He talks to Sheridan Morley.
(... 'our man anywhere': page 3)
