Story: "Clouds" by Peggy Blakeley

First day: coverage up to the close of play direct from Lord's.

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This third film in the series of four finds Sir John Betjeman in the island state of Tasmania: 'an offshoot of England, near the South Pole.' He looks at its origins as a penal settlement, the architectural development of the capital, Hobart, and visits several fine houses in the north.

He contemplates the intrusion of the 20th century: cars, pylons, high-rise buildings. 'The New Bush has reached the ends of the earth. It has reached Tasmania.'

A documentary series of six stories in which advisers set out to solve other people's problems.

A young comedian has two weeks to prepare himself for a crucial appearance before a panel of advisers in a famous Northern night club. On the panel are entrepreneurs; impresarios; Signor Charlie Cairoli, the circus clown; and Mr Wee Georgie Wood, the veteran comic. If the young comedian impresses them - his future is assured.
Much then depends on a postal comedy course he has two weeks to master...
Written and produced by Roger Mills
No laughs in comedy; page 5

Chairman David Jacobs
Panel Isobel Barnett, Kenneth Williams, William Franklyn and Anna Quayle and a guest celebrity
'All I had to do was think': pp 8 and 9

Dr Stanley Cohen argues that "Criminology is obscuring the causes of crime"

Criminologists are scientists who study the causes of crime and ways of controlling it. At a time when crime is increasing it would seem they have an important contribution to make. But Dr Cohen, a lecturer in sociology at the University of Essex, believes they are failing to do so. He says British criminologists tend to regard crime as a sort of disease for which you can find a cause in the physical or psychological characteristics of the individual.
On this analogy you should then be able to 'treat' and perhaps even 'cure' a man of crime. But this approach misses the truth that society itself creates much crime - first by tolerating inequalities of wealth and opportunity; and secondly by arbitrarily labelling certain forms of behaviour as criminal.

Dr Cohen argues his case in the theatre of the Royal Institution, London, with: Trevor Gibbens, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, University of London
David Napley, chairman of the Law Society's Criminal Law Committee
Gordon Trasler, Professor of Psychology, University of Southampton
Dr Donald West, lecturer, Cambridge Institute of Criminology
and an invited audience
Chairman Professor Sir George Porter

Victor Henry as the Clerk in Nikolai Gogol's unique penetration of a man's mind.

'Why am I a clerk? Why should I be a clerk? Maybe I'm not a clerk. Maybe I'm a Count or a General in disguise. Who knows? I'll confess that recently I've been seeing and hearing things that no one else has ever seen or - heard.'
(from Birmingham)

with John Edmunds; Weather