Story: "Dark is Beautiful" by Jill Tomlinson
Illustrated by Joanne Cole
The union's plan for a return to work satisfies the unskilled men but not the toolroom. In a dispute like this what is the union?
Introduced by Patrick O'Brien
Starring Madeline Bell, Jimmy Helms and Doris Troy
Gospel music has been a major influence on both the songs and singers of the current music scene. Tonight, three of the country's top soul singers sing ten of the top gospel songs.
Scratch a modern millionaire and underneath you will probably find a property developer. Since 1954 the boom in commercial property development has spawned oblong office blocks by the thousands and new fortunes by the bank load. To amass their private fortunes, the property tycoons must enlist the willing co-operation of local government councillors - some of the hardest-working, unpaid public servants in modern Britain. For it is in the power of local authorities to grant, or to withhold, the necessary public permission to speculate on making a private fortune.
This week Jim Douglas Henry examines some recent strongly argued alternatives to the established practices in the boom world of property.
by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised by William Trevor
Starring Claire Bloom as Ella
with Norman Rodway as Marchmill and Maureen Pryor as Mrs Hooper
Fate brings Ella Marchmill to rent the rooms of a poet she has always admired. Her admiration gradually turns into obsession.
The heroines of Hardy... women struggling to love: see pages 54-59
on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party The Facts of the Case
(Also on BBC1)
The fourth of six programmes
A street theatre group living and working in the shabby backstreets of Salford, Lancashire. They take theatre to local schools and colleges, television cameras to the streets, games therapy to a local mental hospital. But above all, they play with the children and the children play with them.
Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson, with Christmas in mind, look at some of the cinema books and magazines currently available including: Marilyn by Norman Mailer, Stunt by John Baxter, The Disney Films by Leonard Maltin, Brando - Portrait of the Rebel as an Artist by Bob Thomas
Philip Jenkinson: page 11
Presented by David Holmes with Peter Dorling; Weather
