Story: "The Pineapple Story" by Michael Shoesmith
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)
A series of ten programmes
With tax relief and an appreciating asset, how good a thing is it, financially, to be an owner-occupier? In particular, how much is given by the state?
Introduced by John Tusa
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From January to March they practise, all 7,000 of them, to compete in the Hastings Musical Festival.
Bill Dyer, its chairman, has seen the Festival grow and change since he persuaded the Fleet Street Choir to enter. Singing journalists have given way to dancing toddlers, to his great regret, but this year he hopes the tide has started to turn.
Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Jack Pizzey, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Mothers to Blame?
Mothers bringing up their children on Social Security, without husbands, find many things to complain of. They do not know their rights, or what help is available to them; they are watched and spied upon; they feel that society resents having to support them. Deserted mothers feel they are treated differently from widows, who get their money as of right.
Four women tell their stories to Jim Douglas Henry; and in the studio Desmond Wilcox discusses with Social Security officers, Prof Peter Townsend and the mothers themselves what needs to be done.
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Starring Omar Sharif as Federico, Anouk Aimee as Carla
and Lotte Lenya
with Didi Perego, Fausto Tozzi, Luigi Proietti, Paola Barbara
Federico, a successful Italian lawyer, is enchanted by Carla, his friend's fiancee. The news that the engagement has been broken off after Carla kept an assignation with her fiance's cousin only serves to increase Federico's interest. At an apparently respectable antique shop he makes an appointment to meet her...
Sidney Lumet's haunting story of jealousy and suspicion - never released in Britain - holds the audience on a knife-edge of uncertainty throughout. Anouk Aimee is perfectly cast as the mysterious Carla, a hypnotically attractive, but deeply tormented, woman.
Kenneth Allsop looks at the stories, the issues and the people from the world of newspapers, magazines, publishing and advertising... the media and the messages.
(Colour)
with John Edmunds
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