Story: "One Big Blow" by Ursula Daniels
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
A series of ten programmes
Northern Ireland had a separate parliament for 50 years. How far did the circumstances in which it was established in 1920 determine the pattern of future political development?
with Clive Jacobs
Reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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More than seven million retired people are drawing the old age pension. Twenty-one million now at work can expect to join them. Many of these can also look forward to an extra pension from their employers. Soon every wage and salary earner may have to belong to a superannuation scheme. What is the pensions business, and will it give us value for our money when we retire?
Presented by Brian Widlake
With David Taylor and Robert McKenzie
Starring Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti
In tonight's film Monica Vitti, the star of L'Avventura, La Notte and L'Eclisse, portrays Giuliana, a girl suffering from acute depression who finds even inanimate objects hostile and aggressive.
The Red Desert, Antonioni's first film in colour, employs sequences dominated by a single colour in a remarkable way to express the complex reactions and emotions of his characters.
(Radio Times People: page 4: This Week's Films: page 11)
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Robert Hardy visits and explains some of Britain's most colourful ceremonies
With Chief Yeoman Warder C. Taylor
Escort provided by The 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards
Peter O'Toole talks to Sheridan Morley about his film career and shows extracts from his films: Kidnapped (1959), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Becket (1964), What's New Pussycat (1964), The Lion in Winter (1968), Goodbye Mr Chips (1969), The Ruling Class (1972).
