Story: "The Happy Owls" by Celestino Piatti
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
How do young people react to working life during their first jobs?
with Clive Jacobs; Weather
Joan Bakewell talks with Lew Stone's widow, Joyce Stone
Joyce Stone's parents weren't exactly pleased to hear that their daughter intended to marry a bandleader, but during his lifetime Lew Stone became one of the most important influences on popular music in Britain.
From the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the presence of HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and HRH The Duchess of Kent a concert to celebrate the Festival of the Patron Saint of Music, St Cecilia.
Craig Sheppard (piano), Prizewinner in the 1972 Leeds Piano Competition
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
leader Clifford Knowles
conductor Charles Groves
Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music (Kneller Hall) conducted by Lt-Col R.B. Bashford
Rossini Overture: William Tell
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3, in D minor
Introduced by Richard Baker
(Recorded on 21 November)
(Colour)
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
All over Britain the traditional industries are declining. Coal mines, shipyards and steelworks close; men and women are thrown out of work. The drift to the south east and to the cities continues.
It is a familiar pattern, one which faced Dartington in Devon in 1925. But one man, Leonard Elmhirst, believed that by bringing industry to the countryside and efficiency to agriculture he could halt the rural decline. He believed too that a job is not enough - that everyone had a right to 'the abundant life.' Now Dartington is reaching out again. This time to help the mining town of Conisbrough in Yorkshire.
Gordon Snell asks 79-year-old Leonard Elmhirst what lessons can be learned from his experience. Is the Dartington way a lesson for the future?
(Repeated next Saturday afternoon)
(Colour)
on behalf of the Labour Party
(Also on BBC1)
(Colour)
Basil Taylor shows how English poets and painters turned their eyes to the beauties of nature within their own island, and found there the elements of the Picturesque and Sublime.
by Samuel Beckett
Starring Patrick Magee
Krapp, an old man, is alone with his memories and the reels of tape he has recorded during his life. As he reviews the years listening to his diary, he finally makes a conclusion about the most important thing that has ever happened to him.
(Why Beckett's boxes became tins: pages 13, 15)
Women's Lib, Workers Control and the Ulster problem - by 1914 England seemed on the brink of civil war.
