Story: "The Roadsweeper's Good Day" by Jean Watson

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
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Fifth day
The final two hours' play direct from The Oval
Introduced by Peter West

with Richard Whitmore; Weather

'It was the most hated art movement of the 20th century,' said a director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York to one of the group of painters whose story is the subject of tonight's film: The New York Masters
The story, begins in the depression years of the 1930s, when Roosevelt's New Deal gave government-sponsored employment to millions and the status of artist to a handful. It ends with the death of its hero, Jackson Pollock, in 1956 - the year of international success.
Jim Douglas Henry talks to the painters, critics and early collectors of this movement. They tell of the hard and gruelling struggle of a group of fierce individuals whose success made New York the art capital of the world. They include: Lee Krasner Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Robert Motherwell, Harold Rosenberg, Ben Heller.

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This week's subjects include

The Craftsmen of Clerkenwell: how an attempt is being made to preserve the livelihoods of craftsmen, some of them the last of their kind, in an area threatened by redevelopment.

Toys: a look at some of Betty Cadbury's wide-ranging collection of items made for the amusement of children in the past.

Arthur Negus answers questions.

Introduced by Hugh Scully
(from Bristol)

by Michael J. Bird
[Starring] John Nettleton as George Pattison, June Ellis as Millicent Pattison, Brian Wilde as Donald Ramsey

A middle-aged couple are disturbed during the night by a series of unwelcome visitations.
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The second of four films that show what happens when human beings are brought face to face with a code to which they must conform.
Into the Benedictine Monastery at Ampleforth come two young postulants. In joining the Order they throw off the demands and pressures of the 20th century, but assume those of the 6th century as enshrined in the Rule of St Benedict.
Their lives are completely altered. Gone are hopes of wealth, marriage and independence. But in their place is the eventual prospect of inner contentment and peace - always provided they can school themselves to reject one world by embracing the disciplines of the other.
("Really, we're just ordinary chaps doing an ordinary job.": page 11)

Richie Benaud introduces highlights of the fifth day's play from The Oval

Claude Cockburn talks to Michael Dean
Journalist, raconteur, former communist and correspondent for The Times and The Daily Worker. Founded and edited The Week. Claude once wrote: 'The report that God is on the side of the Big Battalions is propaganda put out by the Big Battalion commanders. They hope thereby to spread alarm and despondency among the smaller forces.'
(Radio Times People: page 5)