Today's story is "The House that Jack Built" (trad)
Presenters this week Miranda Connell, Brian Cant
How claimants of Social Security get together to fight for a better deal.
with Peter Woods; Weather
An anthology by Sir John Betjeman
with Donald Houston, Gary Watson, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Gabriel Woolf, Pauline Letts, John Boswall
A celebration of the British countryside in poetry, music, and aerial pictures, filmed throughout a whole year.
Sir John Betjeman has chosen a selection from his favourite English and Welsh poets and combined them with verse specialty written by himself.
The Bird's-Eye View helicopter flew through the changing scenes of the English landscape.
"A breathtakingly beautiful view of the English and Welsh countryside, as of an inspection of his work by a kindly creator." (Peter Black, Daily Mail)
"It was a splendid celebration of what is still, despite the developers and polluters, our green and pleasant land. Anyone who had just filled up an emigration form would surely have been moved to tear it up." (Richard Last, Daily Telegraph)
Match your musical wits tonight against Eleanor Bron, Patrick Moore, Robin Ray
Guest musician Yehudi Menuhin
Chairman Joseph Cooper
It is quite possible that one day the Snowdonia National Park will contain one of the world's largest open cast mines. The site might cover up to ten square miles of the Park with waste tips as high as St Paul's.
Precise details of plans by mining companies are still unknown. One of the largest involved, Rio Tinto-Zinc, has promised wide discussion and already made available enough information for the broad implications of such mining to be considered.
However, many feel mining on this scale is incompatible with the spirit and purpose of the National Parks Act. The application now being made by RTZ might well turn out to be a test case for the survival of all Parks. This film is a case study of RTZ'S application and its implications. It asks whether economic benefits from mining and environmental priorities have been clearly defined.
The film will be followed by a studio discussion to which mining and conservation interests have been invited.
by John Mortimer
Dentist Peter Trilby's sexual approach to his partner's wife Denise is off-beat to say the least, but it doesn't take her long to learn the drill - too well it seems.
(John Mortimer. QC. with a low boredom threshold: page 11)
(Colour)
with Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Michael Dean, Sheridan Morley
