Finding what goes up and down,
In the country and the town

Today's story is "The Clever Crow" (traditional)

(Interval: 6.30-7.5)

with Richard Whitmore
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Last December, a month before the National Miners' strike began, the Money Programme sent a camera crew to Clipstone, a mining village in Nottinghamshire. The cameras stayed in Clipstone as the threatened strike became a reality. And once it had started on 9 January the programme follows the changes of mood and attitudes of Clipstone's community of 5,000 through to the moment when the men went back to work, victorious, on 28 February. In Clipstone they won't forget this strike any more easily than they forgot 1926.

Alan Watson presents a special portrait of the 1972 Miners' strike, through the eyes of the local union leader, the pit manager, the men and the wives of Clipstone colliery village.

With Percy Thrower from Clacks Farm, Ombersley.

In the fruit and vegetable gardens at Arthur Billitt's farm in Worcestershire, now greatly extended, Percy Thrower plants raspberries, blackcurrants and apple trees, and deals with cordon fruit and the feeding of strawberry plants.

Topical arts magazine
Introduced by David Jones

Murder, Suicide or Accident?
On 21 April, 1876, Charles Bravo, barrister-at-law, four months married, died in Balham from poisoning. Scandal and public attention turned the event into a popular melodrama.
Elizabeth Jenkins, biographer and novelist, has just published the results of her own meticulous research into this strange and enthralling case. Tonight she tells the story of the sensational 'Balham Mystery'.
(...this murder mystery: page 9)

From Tomorrow Painting's Dead: The title of an exhibition on the beginnings of photography that opened this week at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Not only did the first photographers consider its invention the death knell for painting, but many of them actually took photographs more like 'old masters' than real life.
But Francis Frith was different. His views of town and country-side, famous as Frith postcards sold in stationers and general stores throughout the country, are a remarkable record of Britain in the age of Victoria.

(David Jones is a member of the RSC)

Adapted in nine parts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson from the novel by Gabriel Chevallier.
Told by Peter Ustinov and starring Roy Dotrice, Wendy Hiller, Kenneth Griffith, Cyd Hayman and Catherine Rouvel.

A BBCtv co-production with Bavaria Atelier GMBH, Munich

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