Story: Exploring Day by SUE O'BRIAN. Presenters SARAH LONG , JOHN GOLDER

with Michael Charlton
The extended 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
Associate producer JOHN SHEARER Producer CHRISTOPHER CAPRON

from the novel by Angus Wilson dramatised in four parts by Dennis Potter
Starring Dandy Nichols, Michael Bryant, Leslie Dwyer

Wretchedly unhappy, Sylvia has taken to solitary walks. Caught in a thunderstorm, she manages to save a child from a tree struck by lightning.

The last in a series with Robert Erskine.
Geminus' final appointment is in the Greek city of Ephesus, where the riot caused by St Paul's teaching was a recent memory.

on behalf of the Labour Party
(Also on BBC1)

starring Dave Allen with DORAN GODWIN , RONNIE BRODY ROBERT EAST, PETER HAWKINS MICHAEL SHARVELL-MARTIN
Script by DAVE ALLEN , AUSTIN STEELE and PETER VINCENT
Designer KEITH CHEETHAM Producer PETER WHITMORE

This week: Fallen Idols
Showbusiness has a uniquely cruel side to it: you can be right at the top one moment and right down the next. Jeremy James , with a Man Alive team, talks to three top people who have fallen. Comedian BILL MAYNARD was forced to sell hearth and home when his career collapsed ten years ago. He's made it again now, but it isnt so easy far film star ANTHONY STEEL, heart-flhrob of the 50s.
With 60 films behind him, he suddenly found himself with a broken marriage to Anita Ekberg and a broken contract with the Rank Organisation.
And singer KATHY KIRBY , the cheerful girl next door-the one-time television idol of millions. Her career disintegrated when her personal manager and friend Bert Ambrose died suddenly. On a one-night stand at the Crystal Rooms, Hereford, she sings ' Maybe This Time.' And there are many who hope and believe she can get to the top again.
Producer JAMES KENELM CLARKE Editor ADAM CLAPHAM

A season of new plays from Birmingham
Swallows by JOHN MCGAHERN
In a small Irish village any visitor causes a stir - especially one who plays the violin and talks of foreign places.
Script editor TARA PREM
Designer MARGARET PEACOCK Producer BARRY HANSON Director ROBERT KIDD

with Peter Dorling ; Weather

JOHN WESTBROOK reads The Astigmatic by PHILIP HOBSBAUM. 11.40 Close