4.25 Prospect: A Programme for Students and Tutors of A101

4.50 The PreSchool Child - Give and Take

5.15 S101 Preparatory Maths - Numbers

Stan and Ollie's efforts to depart on a picnic lead to a mounting wave of disaster! (Black and white)

continues a season of films celebrating stars of the British popular theatre. Starring
George Formby , Phyllis Calvert
Formby, the greatest Lancashire comedian, is in fine form here as a ukulele player mistaken for a secret agent during the early days of World War II. The locations in Norway plus a fine supporting cast make this probably his most consistently enjoyable and most sophisticated film. Although George is in a more dramatic role, naturally he sings with the ' uke ', including the classic ' Mr Wu's a window cleaner now'.
Screenplay by JOHN DIGHTON,
AUSTIN MELFORD, ANGUS MACPHAIL BASIL DEARDEN
Produced by MICHAEL BALCON Directed by MARCEL VARNEl
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Tales from Hoffnung
The Palm Court Orchestra

Ten programmes with JOHN THAW 9: Judging the Situation
What happens if a parent injures a child? The programme shows what options are open to authorities, and a social worker, JOAN COURT, explains how a parent can best cope with the situation,
Written by MAGGIE WINKWORTH

including sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather

A series of six programmes 1: A Kind of Failure
The writer ... Anthony Burgess , author of Earthly Powers, A Clockwork Orange and The Malayan Trilogy.
The place ... Malaysia.
'Arriving as a young teacher, I wanted to impart the traditional British liberal virtues of the enquiring mind; tolerant, sceptical, humanistic, dedicated to truth, beauty and justice. It was too big an ideal. I see now, coming back a quarter of a century later, that
I have to report a kind of failure.'
A Book Programme film written and narrated by ANTHONY BURGESS
Series producer ANTONY ROUSE
Producer DAVID WALLACE

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 ALAN WALSH Producer KEN STEPHINSON Editor GORDON WATTS

A series in 13 parts adapted from the books Of GIOVANNI GUARESCHI by HUGH LEONARD with 2: Peppone has been elected mayor and Camillo is bidden to ' a great ceremony'. He is requested to bless the foundation stcne of the People's Palace - but where did Peppone get the ten million lira to build it?
Music composed by WILLIAM GODFREE Lighting GEOFF SHAW
Script editor TED RHODES Designer CHRIS EDWARDS
Produced by BILL SELLARS
Directed by PETER HAMMOND

This week: Bust
A mill that made the yarn that made the carpet that royalty steps on-gone bust after 100 years. A family firm with a worldwide market in toys - in receivership. A workshop that could make almost anything in metal, one-off jobs that were always in demand - liquidated.
All over the country, the receivers are moving in. The businesses are sold off, hammered out of existence to pay the creditors. And the fact is that small firms employ more people than all the major companies put together.
Harold Williamson goes to four small firms to ask what is going wrong? Why are some firms going under while others - often in the same line of business - survive and even prosper?
Producer TERENCE O'REJLLY Editor TIM SLESSOR
Brookes On ... page 89

The Evibassy World Professional
Championship Quarter-finals
PETER PURVES introduces the remaining matches which will decide the final places in tomorrow's semi-finals. Commentators
SID WADDELL , TONY GREEN
Producers NICK hunter, BILL TAYLOR KEITH PHILLIPS , MIKE ADLEY BBC Manchester