Story: "Run, run, chase the Sun" by Robin and Inge Hyman and Yutaka Sugita
with Peter Woods; Weather
Denis Tuohy talks to Maggie Nelson
Nowadays 80-year-old Maggie Nelson devotes much of her energies to campaigning for the rights of old-age pensioners like herself. She's been a fighter all her life. Born into a weaving family in Lancashire, she worked to support her family for nearly 12 hours each day. But then came the depression and she joined the National Unemployed Workers Movement and, in 1936, the Women's Hunger March to London.
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BBC2 Snooker Competition
A League of Champions compete for the 1972 Pot Black Trophy
Eddie Charlton, the Australian Champion, already making his presence felt in this series with two wins from three matches versus Ray Reardon, the 1970 World Champion, at present equalling Charlton's record.
Both players are now through to the second round with the Final just five weeks away.
Introduced by Alan Weeks
Starring Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews
Tonight's film in this season about man's inhumanity to man is a classic of its kind. Adapted from the best-selling novel by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, it tells the story of two men caught in the swirl of murderous mob fury that has shaken the cattle town of Bridger's Wells.
(This Week's Films: page 9)
and Weather
Brian Hewitt-Jones explores a French village made famous by a simple 19th-century parish priest: The Cure of Ars
'Peasant-born, traditionalist, obstinate, dedicated, miracle-worker St John-Marie -Baptiste Vianney.'
With Fr George Songhurst and Fr Tony Smith
