Story: "The Alarm Cock" by Lionel Morton
Presenters this week Miranda Connell, Lionel Morton

A series of ten programmes

Apparently in the teeth of public opinion, the death penalty for murder has been abolished. How was this decision obtained? And by whom?

Presented by Robert McKenzie
with Mark Carlisle, MP, Lord Butler, Norman Fowler MP, Lord Gardiner, Professor J.A.G. Griffith, Arthur Koestler, Reginald Paget, QC, MP, Lord Stow Hill, QC

with Richard Whitmore
Weather

Jeanne La Chard talks to Isabel Coleman

Isabel Coleman was one of nine children. Her father was a gardener in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, and it was an achievement when she won a scholarship to Glasgow University. A school teacher all her working life, today, at 74, she is still a militant socialist - writes songs for strikers and sells left-wing newspapers at factory gates.

Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Desmond Wilcox and Harold Williamson

This week: Life on the Pension
The old age pension goes up. In future a single pensioner will live on £6.75 a week - and married couples on £10.90. Is money all that is needed? The old face problems which the rest of us, too often, push to one side - while we live in the Welfare State that their generation built. In almost every country they are respected as 'senior citizens.' Here they are, usually, just 'the old' and often made to feel a nuisance.
Jeanne La Chard looks, with old people, at 'Life on the Pension' and in the studio Desmond Wilcox discusses with them, and others, what, perhaps, it ought to be.
(Radio Times Women: page 4)

A League of Champions compete for the 1972 Pot Black Trophy
Ray Reardon v John Pulman both ex-world champions
Referee Sydney Lee
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)

Starring Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche
with John Barrymore, Francis Lederer, Mary Astor

After losing all her money in Monte Carlo, Eve Peabody arrives in Paris with just the clothes she stands up in. A young sympathetic taxi driver falls in love with her, but Eve is a gold-digger and in no time has bluffed her way into Paris society.
Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche co-star in this sparkling comedy by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder which includes one of the last appearances by John Barrymore.
(This Week's Films: page 9)