6.40 Identity
7.5 Management in Education
7.30 Language and Learning
Story: "The Vain Crocodile" by Margaret MacRae. Guest storyteller Carmen Munro.
A series of 15 programmes
Are nationalised industries just inefficient, over-manned, bureaucratic money losers, or are there good reasons why they never seem to make profits? Peter Donaldson talks to British Rail's retiring chairman, Sir Richard Marsh.
Book (same title), £1.60 from bookshops
5.0 Computers: Algorithms
5.25 Perception and Industrial Re-location
5.50 William Wordsworth
6.15 How to Build a Phage
6.40 Chemistry and Structure of the Cell
A series of eight films
Who are the Palestinians? Where do they live? Why do they live there? What do they see as the answer to their problems?
with Ludovic Kennedy, Richard Kershaw.
Richard Baker brings you the news and an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines.
Introduced by Robert Robinson.
"The Creighton Report" by Hunter Davies is a detailed study of one year in the life of a large comprehensive school - Creighton in North London. Hunter Davies observed and interviewed many of the pupils and staff, and even did some teaching in the school himself.
In a discussion filmed at Creighton, Hunter Davies confronts the head-mistress and some of the pupils and staff who have now read the book.
Preview: page 15
A Personal History of the United States, written and narrated by Alistair Cooke
"Cooke at his best and not only that but pictures to match. Rarely can so much have been packed into 50 minutes. And more than that, the film seen as a whole has the compelling sweep of the best documentaries." (Peter Fiddick, The Guardian)
Book: Alistair Cooke's "America", £6.50, from bookshops
A season of great love stories
Tonight starring Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan
Lisa Berndle, a shy, sensitive young girl, is deeply in love with Stefan Brand, a concert pianist, who is hardly aware that she exists. Her secret devotion continues for three years until one evening Stefan sees her watching him in the street and speaks to her.
Films: page 9
presents Daryl Hall and John Oates in a live concert from the Television Theatre in London.
Introduced by Bob Harris.
Richard Baker; Weather
Leslie Sands reads "A Young Birch" by Robert Frost
