Story: "Pybus and the Trumpet" by Hilary Hayton

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

The series which examines our working lives.

"Don't let them clip your wings," shop steward Jimmy Reid tells the pupils of a Sheffield Comprehensive School. But how can school leavers decide which job - and which employer - will best suit their personalities and talents?

with Clive Jacobs
Reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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A ballet by John Cranko after Shakespeare
Recorded in the Wurttemberg State Theatre

A ZDF Production

(Colour)

A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives.
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Did You Hear the One About...?
George Plimpton will try his hand at anything. First he played a bit part in a John Wayne Western. Then he chanced his arm on the flying trapeze at the circus.
Now he tries the loneliest job in the world: stand-up comic. Alone on a stage in front of an audience, he has only his jokes between him and disaster. Bob Hope, Woody Allen and Buddy Hackett all have advice for Plimpton. Laugh-In's comedy writers provide the material. But on the big night at Caesar's Palace at Las Vegas he is out there alone in front of 1,200 people, an audience used to the best entertainment the world can provide.

by Alasdair Gray
with David Swift as Les and Elizabeth Bell as Ella

'Ella I have noticed that you are very heavily pre-occupied with the mercy and kindness approach to life, and it makes you hard and cruel at times!'
BBC Scotland

For some people the Edwardian period seemed one long garden party, but millions lived in appalling poverty that seemed to get worse year by year.
(First shown on BBC1)

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With Tony Bilbow, Michael Dean, Sheridan Morley