Story: ' Ahhh' ' said Stork written and illustrated by GERALD ROSE . Presenters
Floella Benjamin , Johnny Ball
Further coverage from Olympia
With Ollie's help, Stan succeeds in sneaking away from the wife for a night out.
opens a season of films celebrating stars of the British popular theatre. starring
Arthur Lucan , Kitty McShane
When Daphne Snowdrop Riley is promoted from chief washer-up to manager of a luxury hotel the results are as hectic as they are predictable. It's good-natured fun all the way to the custard pie finale and Arthur Lucan is in fine form as the irrepressible Old Mother Riley - a character he played for 30 years on stage and screen.
Screenplay by JACKIE MARKS and CON WEST Directed by JOHN HARLOW Films: page 27
With JOHN THAW
Ten programmes for parents who are concerned about the way they treat their young children. 4: Coping in Spite of ... ' I get to the point where I just want to tear my hair out ', says a full-time mother of two young children, who feels an acute loss of her own identity. Is it reasonable to expect mothers to be at the beck and call of their children 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without some kind of relief?
Including sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
He made lots of money, lived in great style and was probably the most famous writer of his day. To his friends and enemies (lots of both) William Somerset Maugham was a man of great complexity - kind and malicious, vulnerable and cynical, 'the grand old business-man of British letters'.
In this account of his uneasy life and complicated times, his nephew Viscount Maugham , his companion Alan Searle , his publisher A. S. Frere , Garson Kanin , Malcolm Muggeridge and Dame Rebecca West recall a victim Of Human Bondage.
Directed by SANDRA GREGORY
Written and produced by ANTONY ROUSE
Tonight and every Thursday Russell Harty invites you to join him and his guests in the BBC's Manchester studios for an unpredictable half-hour of live entertainment.
Studio director PETER HAMILTON Producer KEN STEPHINSON Editor GORDON WATTS
A series in 13 parts, adapted from the books Of Giovanni Guareschi by Hugh Leonard
Mayor Giuseppe Bottazzi (Peppone), up for election on the Communist ticket, attends church and opposes his rival and one-time aide in the war against oppression, Catholic priest Don Camillo.
This week:
'... something wrong with our bloody ships today ...'
Admiral Beatty's famous comment as he watched another battle-cruiser blow up at Jutland would, in the view of some authoritative critics, not be inappropriate today. For example, on a recent exercise in the North Atlantic, some destroyers had to refuel after only three days at sea - otherwise, without the weight of fuel in their bunkers, they would have become top-heavy and unseaworthy.
For what roles has our Navy been built? And how well is it equipped to fulfil them? Are our ships over-sophisticated and thereby overpriced? Could they effectively fight a limited war?
Jeremy James asks if the Royal Navy still remembers Admiral Fisher's famous dictum that ' he who strains at the gnat of perfection will swallow the camel of unreadiness
Producer PHILIP GEDDES Editor TIM SLESSOR
The second of three programmes
Fred Davis - Snooker and Billiards Player
FRED DAVIS , eight times World Snooker Champion and reigning World Billiards Champion, has lived his life in the shadow of brother Joe, Mr Snooker ' himself. Fred looks back to the days when billiards was the more dominant sport and talks to Frank Keating about the recent explosion of interest in snooker.
Director DOUG HAMMOND
