Story: "John Barleycorn" by Helen Palmer
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
In-service education project for teachers
(Shown on Tuesdays, BBC1)
with Richard Whitmore; Weather
Strikes, unemployment, coloured immigration... three aspects of the British labour situation are examined by Austrian, Dutch and West German TV. Their reports include a look at our trade unions, British workers abroad, and the question of British citizenship for coloured immigrants.
Introduced by Derek Hart
(Colour)
by Leo Tolstoy
Dramatised in 20 parts by Jack Pulman
Napoleon's troops have advanced rapidly across Central Europe and the Russian army has had to fall back. Both Andrei and Nikolai have been involved in the fighting.
(Anthony Hopkins is a National Theatre player. Repeated next Saturday evening. War and Peace, an 84-page illustrated guide, from newsagents price 25p)
Continuing this series of conversations about the theatre
Sir John Gielgud talks about his mother's family the Terrys and in particular about Ellen Terry and her brother Fred.
(Colour)
The earliest known fossil remains of a polar bear come from Kew. So, when polar bears swam in the Thames, did Britain really look like present-day Greenland? What was the Ice Age? Was it so long ago? The tusks of the most famous of all extinct Ice Age mammals, the woolly mammoth, were found in Cae-Gwyn cave in North Wales. According to radio-active dating they'd lain there for 18,000 years, but it's a mere 12,000 years, say geologists, since Britain had glaciers.
In tonight's programme we see by means of an Icelandic glacier the processes that shaped the British landscape. We also find out how scientists are reconstructing the extreme climatic changes of the last 100,000 years-from the evidence of the rocks, fossils, botany, even beetles, and we ask: why did it happen? Will it happen again?
Six writers in a second Birmingham season
with Donald Churchill as Peter Spring interviewing Norman Bird as Arthur Pendelbury
'My good lady said to me... one day he'll kill somebody and I said yes, one day he'll have a live death on his programme. Somebody will come on and he'll die and we'll watch.'
(Colour)
Elaine Morgan, a Welsh housewife on a whistle-stop tour of America, where her book The Descent of Woman has reached No 7 in the top sellers' list. Its theme, a carefully reasoned argument that Man in evolving from ape spent ten million years in the sea as a semi-aquatic creature, has caused one of the greatest-ever storms in the world of anthropology.
(From housewife to bestselling authoress: page 3)
Weather
Twenty part drama of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel. Napoleon's troops have advanced rapidly across Central Europe.
