How do young people react to working life during their first jobs after leaving school?
(Shown last Wednesday)
(Colour)
With the proposed changes in income tax and the introduction of value added tax, the British tax structure is due for its greatest alteration since William Pitt slapped on income tax in 1799. How will the changes affect taxpayers? Are there any lessons that Europe can teach us?
What would you do in a fire? Call the brigade? Try to put it out yourself? Or just scream? Last year the UK property loss topped £100 million. Six thousand people were seriously injured and a thousand people died. The situation is getting worse and few of us realise it.
A digest of the news of the week and other matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world - plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
with John Edmunds
(Colour)
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Allan Y. Cohen former pupil of Timothy Leary talking to Oliver Hunkin
'You can never find God through drugs...'
A Personal History of the United States in 13 parts written and narrated by Alistair Cooke
Travelling from Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to Boston and Williamsburg, Virginia, Alistair Cooke unravels the tangled events that led the American colonists into open conflict with their parent country, Britain. Against all odds they succeeded in defeating one of the crack armies of Europe. How?
Cooke examines the frontiers-man's secret weapon, the Pennsylvania Rifle, and analyses the character of George Washington at his home in Mount Vernon.
(Repeated: Monday 10.15 pm, and currently printed in "The Listener")
(Colour)
The best in international magic from sleight of hand to the Grand Illusion featuring Magicians from Indonesia, America and England
Introduced by Michael Bailey, MIMC
The Wychwoods, Phoa Yan Tiong, Johnny Hart, Saveen and Daisy May, Marvyn Roy and Carol, Robert Harbin
Recorded at Collegiate Theatre, London
(Radio Times People: page 4)
with Germaine Greer
and Norman Chappell, Alan Curtis, Roger Foss, Jeffery Taylor, Georgina Allen, Christine Pockett
Variations on a theme in the form of poetry, comedy sketches, songs and discussion.
This week: The Woman's Place
(...concentrated Germaine: pages 6-7)
by Dorothy Alison
A series of seven ghost stories
His name was Smith. It sounded so ordinary yet his crimes horrified and appalled the England of his day. When Jane Hornby, a journalist, looks into the story, she finds the past lives on in the present.
(Colour)
James Cameron, Kenny Everett, William Rushton, and John Wells - to name but a few - look at the way some of us were last week.
A season of films by one of the masters of the cinema - John Ford
Starring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Victor McLaglen
The last days of service of a Cavalry Captain on the point of retirement - and a series of set-backs nearly cause the failure of his final mission.
(Films: page 11. See feature pages)
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