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If you've ever thought about who is overpaid and who is underpaid, then join in this inquiry, by men and women at work, into what is fair pay and how we might achieve it in practice. These questions are basic to the Pay Board's recommendations and to the talks between Government and TUC leading to Phase 3. For this inquiry your views are invited: see details on Letters page 78.

Introduced by Frank Scuffham

Contributors

Presenter:
Frank Scuffham
Series Producer:
John Twitchin

James Blades started his drumming career in a circus. Now-theoretically retired - he still teaches on percussion at the Royal Academy of Music. This week he recalls some of the intervening events in a career which has included accompanying silent movies, drumming in the great dance bands of the 1920s and 1930s, and playing percussion for the London Symphony Orchestra.

Contributors

Interviewer:
Chris Dunkley
Interviewee:
James Blades
Director:
Jenny Barraclough
Producer:
Ivor Dunkerton

Reporters: Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Jack Pizzey, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Peper Harow, an old country house set in fine grounds, provides a splendid if unexpected setting for its new residents - group of disturbed adolescents, most of them potentially violent. All the boys at Peper Harow have taken some kind of a beating from life. But at Peper Harow the beating has been stopped. There is no regimentation, no system of rewards and punishments to encourage conformity. Instead the community offers to the boys a chance to try out the experience of ordinary life again; to take responsibility for themselves, for others, for the community.
To some this would seem a case of sparing the rod and spoiling the child. But to the boys of Peper Harow the task of facing up to the realities of themselves and their circumstances is - as several of them put it to Jim Douglas Henry-tougher than punishment.

Contributors

Reporter:
Jim Douglas Henry
Producer:
Shirley Fisher
Editor:
Adam Clapham

Starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury

Paul Newman as a ruthless opportunist and Orson Welles as an experienced schemer form an uneasy friendship in this Faulkner drama, set in his beloved Mississippi, about an ageing aristocrat who wants a grandson before he dies.
This Week's Films: page 11

Contributors

Director:
Martin Ritt
Ben Quick:
Paul Newman
Clara Varner:
Joanne Woodward
Jody:
Anthony Franciosa
Varner:
Orson Welles
Eula Varner:
Lee Remick
Minnie:
Angela Lansbury
Alan Stewart:
Richard Anderson
Agnes Stewart:
Mabel Albertson
Ratliff:
J. Pat O'Malley
Lucius:
William: Walker

Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson present a round-up of what's going on in the film world both here and abroad and review
Don't Look Now, starring Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie, White Lightning with Burt Reynolds, and the Swiss film L'Invitation.
Philip Jenkinson: page 11

Contributors

Presenter:
Tony Bilbow
Presenter:
Philip Jenkinson
Producer:
Barry Brown
Executive Producer:
Mike Fentiman

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