Story: Sadhappy Alice by Sue O'Brian

Australia v England from Sydney: highlights of the final day's play.

(by satellite)

with Michael Charlton.

A longer Thursday edition of Newsday includes the day's News Summary and a longer look at one of the vital issues of the week with the people concerned.

Preceded by Weather

from the novel by Iris Murdoch, dramatised in four parts by Simon Raven
Randall has left home to pursue Emma's secretary, Lindsay. Mildred, who is determined to get Hugh, has encouraged Felix to declare his love to Ann. Part 2
'As I see it all, Hugh married Fanny for the Tintoretto; but he gave good value in return except for a couple of lapses - one of which I'm glad to say was with me.'
(Mildred Finch)

The world of Marcus Helvius Geminus, a Roman who lived between 30 and 65 AD with Robert Erskine
2: The Toga'd Race
The second in a series of 13 programmes in which young Marcus receives his education, comes of age at 14 and puts on his white toga (tried on by Robert Erskine). Now he can take up the responsibilities of being a fully fledged Roman.

Starring Eleanor Bron and John Bird
with Derek Fowlds

starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett and their guests Swingle II
With Robin Bailey, Jacki Piper, Michael Ward.
Arrangements and Orchestra Ronnie Hazlehurst

A newsreader wrestles with a script printed on a faulty machine and there's a lesson in speaking Swedish. Ronnie Corbett's monologue centres on the sale of his house.

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

For 16 months men and women workers at the Triumph motor cycle factory at Meriden, near Coventry, have occupied the premises in a bid to run the place themselves as a workers' co-operative. The old management, Norton-Villiers-Triumph, closed the factory in a rationalisation scheme and sacked 1,700 men and women.
But half the workers refused to go. They closed the gates on their bosses, set up a 24-hour picket, and occupied the factory. Man Alive was there then.
Ten months ago the company offered to sell them the factory. Then, six months ago, the Government announced it would grant loans of £5m to their co-operative to help them. But the sale has not been finalised, the Government offer and money hasn't come to anything, work never started.
But still 300 workers, whose hopes have been raised; and then dashed time and again, man the picket line. Their severance pay is spent; their life savings gone.
Harold Williamson returns to Meriden and tells the story of their long struggle as they ask how much longer it will be before their workers' co-operative will start to manufacture motorcycles, and who's putting the spanner in the works?

David Holmes; Weather

Gary Watson reads "Old Poacher" by Michael Hamburger.

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