Story: "Toothache"

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Scenes from an Elizabethan Life in ten episodes by Alison Plowden
(Book. 70p: see page 63)

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with Percy Thrower from Clacks Farm, Worcestershire
Seasonal treatment of fruit: tree spraying, strawberries under cloches; and, in the greenhouse, sowing the seeds of melons, cucumbers and tomatoes.
(from Birmingham)
(Repeated: Tuesday afternoon, BBC1. Percy Thrower's Guide to Gardeners' World, 50p see page 63)

That is the proportion in which the wealth of this country is divided up - five per cent of the population own 95 per cent of the wealth, some £138,000,000,000. If that were divided equally, each married couple in Britain would be £9 a week better off, but it would have to come from the lucky five per cent.
Would that be fair, just and useful? Death duties, income tax and successive Chancellors have failed to redistribute wealth-what can or should be done now?
Presented by Brian Widlake, Paul Griffiths, David Taylor
With Robert McKenzie

The second of two films by one of Czechoslovakia's leading young directors, Jiri Menzel
Starring Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vlastimil Brodsky, Frantisek Rehak

In a sleepy Czech provincial town at the turn of the century Antonin Dura runs a small riverside bathing establishment. With his friends Canon Roch and Major Hugo he leads a quiet complacent existence - until the arrival of the tightrope walker Arnostek and his beautiful assistant Anna.
(This Week's Films: page 9)

by Harold Pinter
with Henry Woolf

Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson present a round-up of what's going on in the film world.
Jazz singer and critic George Melly discusses Diana Ross's characterisation of Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues and Frankie Howerd comments on his role in the new comedy thriller The House in Nightmare Park with Ray Milland.

with David Tindall
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