Story: "Our Circus Band" written and told by James Blades
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
The series which examines our working lives
If you think you're in the wrong job, occupational guidance can help you.
Weather
Six months' work, a fortune and a reputation depend on half an hour.
On 26 April 1972 a rising fashion designer, Bill Gibb, launched his first independent autumn collection. Though unknown to a wider public, his name was sufficient to attract the cream of the fashion press, buyers from Europe and America, and a host of showbiz customers. At 11.30, after three hours of mounting tension, Bill Gibb's ordeal began. While the models flounced and pirouetted before the invited audience, nerves grew taut and strained backstage. For haunting the whole event was the spectre of failure, and the knowledge that something could so easily go wrong.
The only thing which makes me go on living is to have the chance to fulfil myself - in my case, it is to make music.
This evening's film is centred on pianist Fou Ts'ong's continual preparations for concerts. He is seen in rehearsal with Kyung Wha Chung and in conversation with Martin Bernal about modern China. It is about the isolation of an artist whose admiration for Mao Tse-tung brings him into continual conflict with the art he must practise for his own survival.
Denis Tuohy talks to Maggie Nelson
Now 80 she fights for the rights of old-age pensioners, but her first campaign was in 1936 when she joined the women's hunger march to London.
Reporters: Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Danger - Men at Work
Every year hundreds of workers contract - even die from - illnesses which they can't understand, let alone pronounce. Yet people continue to work with substances that can subsequently prove fatal. Some do it because they're ignorant of the dangers; others because they want the money and are prepared to take risks.
This week a Man Alive film team looks at the hazards, and in the studio Desmond Wilcox asks: why it is so difficult to establish who is to blame - who is to compensate the victims?
by John Harris
The politician's son knew all about guns from his comics and toys. But when kidnapped he discovers the difference between playthings and the real thing.
(Colour)
Presented by Kenneth Allsop
Tonight's programme includes a look at the American press on the eve of President Nixon's second inauguration. Are press fears of attacks on its freedom justified or hysterical? With an interview with L.F. Stone, Editor for 19 years of "L.F. Stone's Weekly".
(Colour)
with John Edmunds; Weather
