The four-page supplement of 1973 Open University programmes, as printed in Radio Times, is obtainable on request from Information Services (Ref EP), [address removed]

The song says: 'Money makes the world go round.' But how?

A digest of the news of the week -plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
with Michael De Morgan

The first of three programmes with Geoffrey Moorhouse talking to people about insights into reality glimpsed through drugs, madness or mysticism. Are these experiences a genuine contact with God or merely delusion?

Contributors include: Steve Abrams, Charles Cameron, Dr Allan Cohen, Rosalind Heywood, Fr Kenneth Leech, Dr Alan Watts

The return of Mohsin Ali, a 19-year-old poet, to the village where he had led a band of freedom fighters during Bangladesh's war of liberation, marked the possibility of a new life for his community.
The older generation had been decimated, the economy shattered, but within a year the freedom fighters' army of 3,000 young people had already brought about much change.
This is the story of the Bengalis, of their new-found self-respect, and of their efforts to find a new beginning.

by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Starring Ronnie Barker

Prisoner and Escort: or happiness is a warm handcuff when a hardened criminal is escorted to prison by a sympathetic warder.
Featuring Brian Wilde as Mr Barrowclough, Fulton Mackay as Mr Mackay
with Hamish Roughead

"Every night all over the globe concert promoters sink to their knees in homage to the Second Piano Concerto, while many of the composer's finest works remain largely unknown"... the opinion of Vladimir Ashkenazy and Andre Previn who conducts the London Symphony Orchestra leader John Georgiadis in this programme which celebrates the centenary of the composer's birth.
Narrator James Mason

(The centenary is also marked on Radio this week. Composing a new life: p 5)
(Colour)

The first play in a series of eight new plays on this theme is
The Ripening Seed
by Colette
adapted and dramatised by Penelope Mortimer

To Philippe and Vinca, life seemed an endless summer. So close as children, they had felt almost one person. But childhood can end as treacherously as summer...

(Colette is the subject of BBC1's Omnibus on 15 April and a five-part adaptation of her story Cheri begins on 19 April on BBC2)
(Colour)

Starring The Young Generation and Vince Hill with artists who have sold a million records
This week's guests Don McLean, The New Seekers
Introduced by Terry Wogan
With Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

Keith Dewhurst, William Rushton and John Wells cordially invite you to the season's first soiree
Guests include: Alex Glasgow, Eric Idle and Vivian Stanshall, Dress Informal