Story "The Bill Poster's Busy Day" by Cherry Pearce
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
How can the effectiveness of office work be measured?
This week's subjects include:
Panorama Mesdag: a visit to Holland to look at what is thought to be the largest circular painting in the world.
Blue-and-white Ware: as early as the 14th century in China porcelain decorated only in blue and white was being produced. Julian Thompson traces the development of this style of decoration over the following 500 years.
Model Soldiers: Hugh Scully explores the work of model-maker extraordinary, Cesar Milani.
Arthur Negus answers questions
Introduced by Hugh Scully
(from Bristol)
with Cliff Michelmore
The cane will be banned in all Liverpool schools if a local Education Committee proposal goes through. Will abolition lead to a breakdown of school discipline? What proof is there that beatings help a child become a better citizen? People of Liverpool stand up and speak in an outside broadcast from the heart of the city.
(Colour)
BBC2 Snooker Competition
Tonight: the first clash between two Pot Black Champions in the 1973 Championship.
John Spencer, the former World Champion, v Ray Reardon , also former World Champion.
Reardon, Pot Black's first winner in 1969, was the beaten finalist in last year's Championship; Spencer, winner in 1970 and 1971, achieved the highest break with 66.
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(from Birmingham)
by Dennis Potter
Starring John Le Mesurier as Adrian Harris
with Jack Hedley as James, Neil McCallum as Blake, Diana Fairfax as Lady Emma, Vincent Ball as Simpson and Lyndon Brook as Sir Arthur Harris
Why should anyone want to betray their country? What would make a rich and successful man become a spy?
"Superbly persuasive... made vividly real by one of the best performances Mr Mesurier has ever given." (The Times)
(First shown on BBC1)
Telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, water-divining have one thing in common - the Psi factor. Linda Blandford and Gordon Snell report on a blind woman who can distinguish colours with her fingers, on telepathy between schoolboys and gerbils, and on current research into psychokinesis in Mind Over Matter
(from Bristol)
Bob Harris with the news of today's music.
In the studio Country Joe McDonald, Tassavallan Presidentii.
with John Edmunds; Weather
