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SUNDAY 17 APRIL 1977 For Really Discerning Drinkers Really Dry Gin BBC 1 ITV: London Weekend Roots of our time vf larimu mm 9.30 10.00 I 11:30 12'00 I AM caueht between mv desires and their frustray- A Child bf Our Time (BBC2), the renowned oratorio by Sir Michael Tippett. It was one Cateh- 77 Dab-hand Ted fillets too. Morning Worship Mass from-Hull. The BeachcombaVs: British Columbian: adventures (rpt). Toolkit Mike shows the' art wall fixtures.

Weekend World Hugfi'Pile" in Washington to interview Carter's chief SALT Raul on the President's attitude to -the Russians; to "human rights and to open negotiations. Cartoon Time. Tomfoolery Art Edward Lear story (illustrated (rpt). The Protectors impersonates Harry's voice in Brian Clemens (rpt). The Big Match Relegation special between Spurs and Mark of the Phoenix (film, black and white, 1959): ot me big productions over Easter weekend.

8.00 9.30 9.45 10.10 10.35 11.00 11.45. 12.10 12.35 1.00 1.25 1.40 1.50 1.55 The principal singers, clad in black and silver caftans looking like something William Cameron Menzies 3.15 designed for Things To and the chorus, neatly attired in black roll-neck en iiihi fn ui moil. iiitri iii vrnri.fl a sembles vaguely suggesting trickedUhto to trium: Wimvthdse Beature standbys AnfonDiffrihflAandc Pohlrha'nn doing their side of the law. THSavsrilh Aril j.b i.e., precisely evoking 19413 were to be seen inhabiting a variety of symbolic settings. If they stood in white boxes, that meant they were being politically Latiypawd' Butler, in which Bertie decides to VII h'pn Alhorf.

I nsrmtto commercialism and fakery don't really stand up. The series might be coining millions now, but when the idea Yfas first mooted there was no guarantee that it would make a dime like most previous, all-black projects for screens large or small, it might have died in its own length. As for the question of authenticity, I don't see how it matters much that the author might have fooled himself into thinking his ancestry could be If it was wishful thinking, it sprang from the very passion for identity that the story is about. And anyway, something this happened. In fact we can be sure that the scale and intensity of the cruelty were anything that the script tries to convey.

The oppressed. Meanwhile, film tovredec.qrateBuck;Ho warned of the clips of various low moments in modern history were copiously employed to reinforce 55 tne libretto which, like all. other verbal creations from ftJiist in tiiriirv Hiitit in 3.15 3.30 Sir Michael's own hand, was serious, complex ana un 8.15 Naw." 8.25 Qpd7. Our; Help First of three ATY -reports on belief in' times, of trouble, Leslie Smith' talks to a woman con- speakable. It was singable only on the tacit assumption that it" doesn't matter if what is sung sounds ludicrous.

Nal Zlndagl Naya Jeevan Asian magazln, Barnaby Kids' series (rpt). Conlact Ian Woolfs no-nonsense series dh aspects of disablement (rpt). 1 Conversazioni: Improve-your-lta'lian with particular attention to the language of politics. The Role of the Nurse Self-explanatory film series for interested laypersons well as nurses themselves. Begins in the medical ward of the Royal Free Hospital with much on treating kidney disease.

Meeting Place Reactions to the three editions from Belfast. The Health Show: Toning up with Miriam Stoppard and Terry Wogan (rpt). Having a Baby. i The 60 70 80 Show Fitness in retirement. Farming Reports from an exhibition at Stoneleigh gloriously entitled -Muck Other People's Children Haw to cope with a two-year-, old anarch without resorting to violence.

On the Move: For late readers and writers (rpt). News Headlines. The Happiest Days of Your Life (film, black and whjte, 1950) Sprightly version of the long-running West End. comedy with Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford superbly teamed as the anti-coeducational heads of boys and girls public schools forced to share the same premises. Rich supporting, cast of dithering masters and coy mistresses led by Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis and Arthur Howard.

Bugs Bunny in Rabbit. From Hare to Heir." Grand Sham Brian Turvey's' programme, for BBC Wales, traces the history and significance of rugby in the Valleys. Man and Boy: One of each on Exmoor to see what thrives there. From BBC Bristol (rpt). The High Chaparral: With Elizabeth Allen among the guests (rpt).

News. Nicholas Nlckleby Part 4. Songs of Praise: Good tunes (like Cwm Rhondda') from Leeds. Jubilee Fourth in this cosy series of plays is Nanny's by acute David Ambrose, a fifties story with Jessie Matthews and John Standing as the titular pair. The Good Lite: Is Margo two-timing Jerry? Gracious.

Hoots Last week I was privileged to be nearby when a momentous ethnic event took place. In the foyer at Lime Grove, Alex Haley met Rolf Harris. Such is the wonder of television. Part 4 of Haley's clever soap opera moves into a second generation with Lesley Uggams.as Kizzy. NewB.

Everyman: 'The Lord's My Shepherd and He Knows lm Gay': Peter France's report on the Gay Christian Movement is, disappointingly, very much an outsider's primed with solemn-stuff about right and Everyone in wjth France's use of the word homosexual it's unduty Unyielding of programme''' largely to avoid gay people's chosen There isn't much to encourage the isolated gay here--' the central issue of self-oppression runs like arf open wound unbaimed through the film. Andre Previn Meets The boy wonder wears his Parkinson hat again in order to caress the' egos of his' many friends in the music, and showbiz worlds His first guests are Mia. (but surely they've met) and Julie. Andrews, who revealingly reveals that she acquired her enunciation by chewing on a pencil Breathtaking. The People's Echo: Victor Poole's new series looks i-M nuKsvHJuaur auu iw mmny 01 a SUr fririh i'mrn eninb hiflr(a eiso A Hymh for tte-Obttee: Southern's knockout 5 cbmpeti- it takes talent to generate trivialitv on the scale of A 4.20 4.45 5.35 5.45 6.40 7.15 JUl Uip UUtlUII, Emergency: In 'The Nuisance a paramedic in Child of Our Sir Michael has some insight in to concrete ''experience, but he also has pretensions' to vniutm tn a rut anrt nm nn(ki4nn abstract thdueht: Dealinc nil HIIU'IUII UVfOlUCI 1 1.

8.1Qt Ernbassy Sporadically, stylish, cold war thriller centring oh 'a'Russiari attempt to recapture a (Max: Vorir Sydow) guarded -by security men Brp.deijck Crawford and Richard Shaft Roundtree iri the US embaasv in with; 'the mss 'suffering's of the modern era, he is. pre-sented ivith so much concrete 8.05 8.35 9.45t Newi: 10.00 She Carpi by Rows The: network have finally was as sure as fate Kunta Kinte, bravest of the brave, would be snatched away from the life he was born You would have given a lot to stop that hati: pening. For the rest of the serial the hero was in another world, where it was inade very clear that the trM savagery was all on the part of the civilised. The standard of the direction varied from episode to episode, hut the performances wete' nearly all good and the script never faltered, even when ita-language was anachronistic, On the whole 'Roots' achievement for America to be proud of. There can J3e7 no doubt that it will havea, profound effect on the waf Americans view their past.

No large claims need entered for the power of Srlf; to affect the world. But never wise to underestimate the power of a PeopJeC who couldn't begin to under- stand A Child of Our Time will have no trouble remeiri-'' bering what happened Kunta Kinte. Or to Jesus of Nazareth' CATV). The second halfiif-this Faberge Easter egg had! all the same qualities as first and was just as Zeffirelli harked back to the visual tradition just as 'Sir Michael Tippet harked bacK to Bach. The way JesusV shadow passed over the man recalled one of MaiaV cio's frescoes in the church of the Carmine in Florence," and some of the poses; adopted by the holy women1 at the Crucifixion seemed 'to echo the forms of the small Crucifixion by Masaccio no'jv hanging in Naples.

Zeff was raiding his reference-bag. Meanwhile a straight arrow' Judas (Ian McShane) carne on with a jock-walk and a rrendy-vocab. f.I would rather die' than see: Jesus manipulated; by men like he told tiie Sanhedrin. James Mason and-Lord Olivier out-mellowed each other as Joseph of Aramathea and Nicodemus respectively but Anthony -Quinn as Caiaphas was bound-to find a way bf overplaying1 his role. Most of the time he' evinced terrific restraint, perhaps because the director had a machine-gun trained on him from off camera.

But finally he fourjd a way of going over the top just by wiggling his. index finger. Zorba strikes-' again. All You Need Is Love (LWT) tvas interesting on Swing. Benny Goodman spoke about his small groups, -in which' black and white" musicians worked They made some of my-favourite jazz, but there was not much of it in the programme, which like mostf' the others in the series dominated by interviews.

pity that Frank Hardyfe Power Without Glotyr fThampc 1c nn cn latpf ii-Jr Becketfln The lively Arts' (BBC2, 9,0 p.m.) BBC 2 7.4M.55 Tt Opsn Unlvmilty 7.40 -The Innocent Eye. Ions In Splutlon. 8.30 Foundation Mattta Computing. 8.55 Semiconductors. 9.20 The 6erre OrgansM.4S Computers Case.

Studies. 10.10 Looking et 10:35 Josh's' FIJs. 11.Q, Mais Communication! and Society below. 11.25 Cadences. 11.50 Cloister to Cloister.

12.15 problems of Pollution. 12.40 The Balby Street Kids. 1.5 Modelling by Mathematics. 1.30' Science and Fontenejle. i.

11.00-11.25 Mass Communications and Society Third of the Gwyriri PritchardJohn Miller programmes" yon: 'ABG's coverage of the 1976 Republican in Kansas' one fpcu'ses anchor booth well-coiffured Harry xReasdne'r'arjd Howard r. Smith. We are almost We're almost like. typeface in- a Producer Jeff Gralnick is" diveiiingly aggresst'ver-'. There's really nothing' duller than polir tics, sci yve try to make it 5.40 Rugby (Special The John Player Final between Twickers.

6i40 News Review: Angela Rippon plus subtitles. 7.15 The World About Us James Carrferbn enthusing oh Romance of Indian Railways- for'. steam Inddphlles and anyone who likes a thoughtful and lyrical film (rpt). 8.05 Esther Waters Part 2 of Douglas Livingstone's dramatisation of the uncompromising George Moore -story, repeating on Fridays at 10.10. 8.55 News.

9.00 The Lively Arts: The plum in one of the strongest pro-' grammed weeks of TV I. can remember must be this Samuel. Beckett' plays, given vrsidnyof Not I wUh'Billie Whitelaw re-- creating Uei 'refluctio ad absurdum as a stream of consciousness mouth, resembling nothing so much as iilm of backsides in its mesmeri-l sing effect1 The fresh piec.es seem; to herald a. newly positive vein; of bptiroismviniiBiSSam's of minimal- oblong of existence like' a slowed-up German Expressionist movie, is as accessible i': you let' it be, developing a primal murmur into vsomething that's, in the text's 'faintly Ronald Pickup, an authentic androgynous, young-old figure, bufc the clouds'; from a- Yeats line) is more complex, specific, personal, and shot through with yearning. 10.00-11.45 Medium Cool (film 1969): Accomplished directorial debut by ace cameraman "Haskell who-also wrote and photographed this compelling study of media responsibility and modern voyeurism as' exemplified in the life of a Chicago TV reporter' (Robert Forster).

Staged against the background of the 1968 Democratic Convention arid encapsulating the major issues of its turbulent V. -i- iik. u-yoai. uiu buries or-one- off plays, but. the Telief is tempered by gloom at the expenence'that he feels, justified in treating it in an abstract From 'that initial blunder, everything else' follows caftans, the roll-neck sweaters, the portentous sets and the sententious lines.

The oratorio ends on a 'personal' note of Hope, indicating that Sir Michael hasn't understood 1 i wun. vioo trio aiyuiiy- mous-barmaid, a tmivoreal aimtj.nm.fgnraeii 10.05 10.15 with no existence in her own right. A supporting cast of- ripe Character actors people setting With ivunge, iiimey louurjioums in tne PUDliC bar and other cvDhers. the blasphemy inherent in 11.00 The London 'Programme John Taylor reports on the pressures and-'Gatwick and the inevitable result that planners' eyes are again cast towards even flirting with the notion that the innocent suffered to some purpose But-if doesn't matter, you: might' say-Sthat-avman: in "a-V 12.00 London poems and. sketches 10.55 black, caftan in-r a white box should be heard to announce that' he is caught between his desires and "their? long as uw niusit: nas sua- tJhfbrtuiiately most 11.25 of the substance in the music was second-hand, since the melodies originally belonged' to Negri) spirituals.

What Sir at tne origins of traditional ditties, beginning with the shanties that accompanied setting sail and turning the capstan. On the Cutty Sark, old sea-dog Stan Husill tells the tale. 11.50 0ewch 1 Spcrtf Scotland 1.0-1.23 Landward. 10.15-10.55 Micnaei proyiaed, apart trom a gooaiy numoer or lines about desire and frustrav- hay-shun, was mainly just the 1 1....: A.U. Judy Geeson in.

(ITV, 10.0 p.m.). John Amos as Kunta Kinte. v-'-: 'y Fight Against Slavery, curr r.ently being repeated shows you the scope of the crime; What: 'Roots' gives: you is riot vscope but driving force domes. less fttnrf -the: thoughts of the descendants of the-criminal than the feelings of the descendants of the victim. Hence the anger which keeps thh story alive, even when the details are unsatisfactory.

It has been objected that the African village in the first episode seemed to be inhabited exclusively- by philosophers. Certainly you couldn't help suspecting that the" older villagers' were 'unnaturally imbued with an ironic sense of humour concerning, the doings of the younger: the jokey warmth recalled 'Meet Me in St -Nevertheless the turn was well enough served, since we got the message we needed to get that the villagers were the flower of their culture, whereas the slavers; were the dregs of theirs'. As. Kunta Kinte went bhrough the tests of manhood (the circumcision ceremony providing a fljnch-worthy moment for male viewers), the slave-ship ominously sailed towards landfall. It fag-end of a tradition, the essential is seen as superfluous nobody ivill mind if your building-blocks are bor 6.25 God, Our Help 6.50 Hymn for the Jubilee 7:15 Emmerdale Farm 8.15 Charlie's Angels 9.15 Backs to the Land 9.45 News .5.25 Junior Sunday Quiz 5.45 Just William 6.15 NeWt 6.25 God, Our Help 6.50 Hymn tpr the Jubilee 7.15 Woman 8110.

Miss Sadie ThDmnsbn 4.25 5.25 5.45 6.15 6.25 6.50 7.15 8.10 rowed, air Michael borrowed his from the blacks. Which brines us naturally 6.15. News 6.25 God, Our Help 6.50 Hymn for the Jublle 7.15 Blonlc Woman 8.10 Film Carry On, Don't. Lot Your Head 9.45 Newa 10.00 She 11.00 Your Men at Westminster 11.30 The Protectors 12.00 Weather; Why I Believe Edward Ihe Seventh Junior Sundey Quiz Just William News Sod, Our Help Weather Hymn lor the Jubilee Bionlo Women Film Miss Sadie Thompson (Rita Hayworih, Jose Ferrer) News She Homfctde Epilogue (Rlla Hayworih. Jos Ferrer) to Roots (BBC1).

I have taken such a roundabout path only to provide ah illustrative ex 110.00 She 11.00 A Woman's Lite 11.30 University Challenge 12.00 Weather HTV WALES As above except 1.10-1.40 Duw a'l Awduron: 1.45-2.15 Outlook on Agriculture; 11.00-11.30 Out- nam 10.00 Sh.e i 10.55 Homicide 11.30 Faith lofllle 9.45 10.00 10.55 11.50 ample tor tne contention that anaemic, high art is less worth having than low art with guts. It could be said that 'Roots' siaers ot fcurppe 9.35 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.10 1.25 I. 30 2.00 3.00 3.15 4.15 4.25 S.20 5.45 6.15 6.50 7.15 8.10 9.45 10.00 II. 00 12.00 A Rips Old Age Morning Wonhip Calch '77 Castaway Weekend World Cartoon Weather Farming Olary Match ol the Week Popoye Little Home on the Prarle Cartoon Edward the Seventh Junior Sunday Quiz Jual William News God, Our Help Hymn lor Ihe Jubilee Emergency I Film Embawy (Richard Roundtree, Chuck Conors) News She Ruaaeti Harty Your Music at Night 11.00 Catch '77 11.25 Cartoon 11.30 Toolkit 12.00:: Weekend World 1.10 University Challenge 1.40 Cartopn I. 45- Horses In Our Blood 2.15 The.

Big Match 3.1S Film The Flying Deuce (Stan Laurel, Oliver' Hardy) 4.25 Edward (he Sevan 5.25 Junior Sunday Oulz 5.45 Juat William 6.15 News 6.75 God, Our Help 6.50 Hymn lor Ihe Jubilee 7.15 Emergency 8.10 Film embassy (Richard Rowntree) 9.45 News 10.00 Sha II. 00 Sports Results 11.05 The Whlta Lin 11.35 The Inventors 3 9.00 Catch '77 9.30 Toolkit 10.00 Morning Worship 11.00 The New Gardener 11.25 Where the Jobs Are is as low as art can get. It could even be said that it isn't art at all. But guts it's got. The series was such a 10.40 11.10 11.30 12.00 11.30 University Challenge success in America that a 2.30 3.25 that rare thing, a good series emanating from Australia.

'Visions Before Midnight.iji, selection from CUve Ty" column over the last four yeafS has been published by Jonathan Cape (3.95). 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.10 1.40 2.10 reaction had already set in among some of our pundits even before' it reached this 8.00 Catch 9.30 Toolkit 10,00 Morning Worship 11.00 Count ol Monte Crlsto 11.30 Farming Diary 12.00 Weekend World 1.10. EnuiiardBle Farm 2.05 Calendar Sunday .2.30 Football Special 3.25 The World You, Never See 4.25 Edward the Seventh .5.25 Junior Sunday Quiz 5.45 Just William 6.15 New 6.25 God, Our Help 6.50 Hymn for the Jubilee 7.15 Celebrity Sduarss country: But accusations of 4)55 5.45 6.00 6.01 12.00 Weekend World 1.10 Woody Woodpecker Show 1.35 Farming. Outlook 2.05 Shoot 3.05 Cartoon 3.25 Survival Special 4.25 Edward the. Seventh.

5.25 Junior Sunday Quiz 5.45 Juat William 6.15 News 8.25 God, Our Help 8.50 Hymn for the. Jubilee 7.15 Celebrity Square King Lear An Introduction Xing Lear Pant Along With Nancy Masa Film 'The Hebrides Charley's Btg-Heaited Aunt (Arthur Aakey, Richard Graham Moffat) Little House on the Prairie Newa The, Angelus NewsrPund Theologlana Top Score The Rlordani Nuaoht Film: Spring and Port Wine (James Mason, Susan George) News Sports Scene Outlook News 6.30 Farming Today Musical Triangles Checkmate Catch '77 Toolkit Weekend World A Present from the Past Farming Outlook Film The Reluctant Heroes ot Hill 658 (Ken Berry, Jim Huttcn, Trinl Lopez) Edward the Seventh Junior Sunday Quiz Just William Scotsport News Gpd, Our Help Hymn for the Jubilee Six Million Dollar Man Film Embassy (Richard Roundtree, Chuck Connors) News She RussbII Harty Reflections 7.00 7.30 8.00 8.10 for thin air Writing 8.00 Film': -Marlowe' (Jama 9.50 West Country Job Finder 10.00 Morning Warship 11.00 Catch "77 11.30 The Beachcombers i- 12.00 Weekend World 1.10 Driva-ln 1.45 Farm and Country New 2.15 The Big Match 3.15 Fury at Gunsight Pat 4.25 Edward the Seventh. uarner, uayie nunnicunj 9.45 New 10.00 She 3.25 4.25 4.50 5.15 6.15 6.25 6.50 7.15 8.10 9.45 10.00 11.00 11.55 8.00 Film Mailowe Gamer, Gayle Hunnleiitt) 9.45 Newa 10.00 She 10.55- Impact 11.10 The Streets of San Francisco 11.00 Not a Thousand Miles from 10.00 10.15 11.15 11.20 Leede 11.40 Boney 9.30 10.00 11.00 12.00 1.10 2.00 3.05 4.25 5.25 5.45 6.15 6.25 6.50 7.15 8.10 f-aiar-i; Paul Ferris Fermlng Today Morning Warship Cateh '77- Dodo and the Space Kid Gardening Today Weekend World Space 1999 Star Soccer Film Longatreet (James Franclscus) Edward Ihe Seventh Junior Sunday Quiz Just William News God, Our Help Hymn of the Jubilee Six Million Dollar Man Film Carry On, Don't Lose Your Head (Sidney James, Kenneth Williams) Newa She George Hamilton IV Drive-In HIGHLIGHTS: Tortelier plays three Bach 'cello suites (1.35 p.m., Radio 3) Britten's, opera Billy Budd' (3.25 p.rtVi Radio 3) 'You the' Jury 'tackles abortion (6.15 p.madlq): 'Vivat Rex' continues (9.3 p.m., Radio 4) John Shirley-Quirk sings Shoakbvich and Schubert, accompanied by Ashkenazy (9.30 p.m., Radio 3) in an inquiry into the effects of increasing urbanisation and mechanised agriculture on'remote rural communnivs iiu.ia p.m., naaio from Olton. Solihull: Week hadio 1. 6.55 As Radio 8.0 Playground: 8.32 Ed Slewart: 10.0 9.45 10.00 10.55 11.25 Good Cause; 11.16 Motoring and the motorist; 11.45 r'lhe Grass Catch '77 Crallamen ol Dlnorwlck Balman Animated Classics Circus -Toolkit Weekend World The Unknown' Vatican Farming Outlook Betty Boop Adventures of Black Beauty Glen Michael Cavalcade Edward the Seventh Junior Sundey Oulz Juat William Scotsport News Chapter and Verse A Hymn, for the Jubilee Celebrity Squeres Film Aloha Means Good 9.05 9.30 9.50 10.15 11.05 11.30 12.00 1.10 1.40 2.10 2.15 2.45.

3.25 4.25 4.45 5.15 6.15 6.25 6.50 7.15 9,00 Root: 12.15 You and- iyours: 12.55 weather and- prograrhrne. 9.40 The Land 10.00 Morning Worship 11.00 Catch '77 11.25 Cartoon 11.30 The Beachcombers 12.00 Weekend World 1.10 The Lost Islands 1.40 Horses In Our Blood 2.10 The KIck-oH Match 3.10 Film Echo of Diane (Vincent Ball) 4.25 Edward the Seventh 6.20 Junior Sunday Quiz 5.45 Just William 6.15 News 6.25 God, Our Help 6.50 Hymn tar Ihe Jubilee 7.15 Celebrity Squares 8.00 Film Aloha Means Good news; 1.0 wona ims weerana: 2.0 Gardeners' Question Time; 2.30 RADIO I.30 (mw on v) Afternoon Theatre Evenino Light by Aleksel Arbuzov, with Tony Brltton; (2.30-4.0. VHF only. Sludv on 4): 4.0 News: 4 One Man's Meat: 4.30 The Living World; 5.0 In Touch; 5.15 Down spoke of the Goons. But the Goons (like Stoppard, like everybody in the business made their names with scripts, not noises.

Spring in the Air 4), a cheapie 75-minute prpj-i gramme of funny bits roni I the archives, had a Goon, excerpt to make the point: what distinguished the Gooaf, were scripts that fed growing appetite for anarch: harnessed to the siruatiiyij comedy formula: 'What is the Albert Hatt doing off Beachy Head? More to the point, what is-this ship doing in Hyde Park? David Jacobs, as you migh expect, described this as 'Vintage These-are vintage day's or- radio comedy. The Glums, the obtuse family from the oW Norden-Muir show 'Take if from were in Spring-in the Air. (Monday, a.mrt and in another Radio plunge into yesterday's eriter tainment, Boy Meets Gxjc (Monday, p.m.).' Gilbert Harding, who popped up in the Spring show, was p.tOi. filed in Heroes for a Time? with a smile and a tear Radio, like Britain, hankers for its past. A FAINT air of self-congratulation 'luing over The Secret Workshop (Radio 3), where radio writers told us what's special' about the medium; lah Rodger, who is one himself, had been but -with a' tape recorder, -interviewing Kops, Raban, Haworth, Stoppajrd, Alun Owen, Alli Prior and others who have "round radio agree-, able; There were usef iil; in--sights, but' overall was feeling, not uncommon in dealing with radio, that it is somehow a finer worthier, nicer medium than any ottier.

Perhaps it is, bf course. Haworth likes not having, to -mess about with big production staffs. Prior can sell a radio play with a political theme that would make them all quake in their boots in television (what can it Kops says it lets him breathe. Raban enjoys being able to the listener with disembodied words' that don't need faces. No one had-a bad word to say for it- that must be what was wrong and complaints were reserved for newspapers which give radio little space.

Your Wav: 5.55 Weather: and oro- bye (Sally Slruihers, Jamas gramme news; 6,0 Naws; 6,15 the Jury; 7.0 News; 7.2 Round bye (Sally Struthers, James Britain Ouiz; T.30 Music to Hamem Franclscus) News She -Late Call Russell Harty bar IMendessohn. Dvorak): a.30 9.45 10.00 11.00: 11.05 Priori fr instance, said his novels were better served by. reviewers than were his But at least a novel lives on for a year or two in public libraries, or a bit longer as a paperback. A review of a radio: play is always too late; nobody has solved this problem, except by compromise, or by preview, which may not be available, and in any case is too expensive of the hack's time unless someone sends him the tape to hear at home, which doesn't happen, often, because that in turn is too expensive for the BBC. These are sordid considerations; The Secret Workshop carefully avoided them.

'Radio' techniques' were touched on; Alun Owen was good on the impact of the recorder. Stoppard offered: the conventional wisdom, that radio's potential has not; been fully explored, and cited -sound-effects as a not very convincing example of things worth exploiting. He Franclscus) News 10.00 She 10.55 So It Goes Concarta 11.25 Movln' on Sympathy with Sounds; 9.0. Toolkit Morning Worship Catch '77 Horses In Our Blood Weekend World Survival Farming Outlook Football Border Diary Film Nothing But Trouble (Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy) Edward the Seventh Junior Sunday Oulz Just William News God, Our Help Hymn (or the Jubilee Backs to the Land Film: 'Midas Run' (Richard Crenne, Anne Heywood) News She University Challenge Police Surgeon' 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.00 1.10 1.40 2.15 3.10 3.15 4.25 E.25 5.45 6.15 6.25 6.50 7.15 7.45 9.45 10.00 11.00 11.30 9.3 vat Rex (Dan 10 CorruD' tion '); 9.5B Weather; 10.0 News; Simon Bates: 1.0 Jimmy. Saville; 3.0 Faul Gambacclni's Request Show; 5.15 Quiz Kid 77; .6.0 Tom Browne; 7.0-12.33 As Radio 2.

RADIO 2. 6.55 New Day; 7.0 News; 7.3 Reginald Dixon; 8.3 Ray Moore; 8.32 As Radio 10.2 David Jacobs; 11.30 PeoplaV Service; 12.2 Family Favourites; 2.2 The Multl-Natlonal Eisteddfod Show; 2.30 The Leading Ladies (with Vanessa Lee); 3.30 Hubert Gregg says 'Thanks 'for the Memory'; 4.2 Charlie Chester; 5:50 Next Move; 6.0 As Radio 7.2 (1500m only) Sunday Sport: 7.2 (202m Scotland. 247m and-VHF only) Jim The Great; 7.30 Glamorous Nights: B.30 Sunday Half-Hour; 9.2 Your 100 Bast Tunes; 10.2 Sports Desk; 10.5 Softly 11.2 Sounds of Jazz (Joe Temperley, George Molly); 12.0. News, weather and motoring Information; 12.31 News. RADIO 3i 7:55 (mw only) News; 8.5 Quartets by Faure and Ravel; 9.0 News; 9.5 Your Concert Choice (Handel, Stanley, Finzi, Ireland, Vaughan -Williams); 10.30 Music Weekly (Spohr, Rozsa, Victorian piano music); 11.15 Webern's Passacaglfa and.

Beethoven Fourth Piano Concerto (solcist Peter Frankl, conductor Bernard Hailink); 12.5 Words; 12.10 Tchaikovsy's Swan. Lake ballet 10.15 Villag.es In Jeopardy: 11 Epilogue; 11.15 News; 11.45 Inshore forecast. music (Haltink); 1.5 Allslalr Cooke's Jazzmen (Jack Teagarden); 1.35 Bach's Cello Suites Nos 2 apd 4 (Tortelier); 2.25i Holy Living and Holy Dying; 2.45 Bach's Cello Suite No 6 (Tortelier); 3.25 Britten's 'Billy Budd' (Act 1); 4.50 Interval reading; 5.0 Billy Budd (Act 2): 6.25 Talking About- Music; 6.55 Drama Now The Mandate by Nikola Erdman, with Mary Wimbush and Geoffrey Beevers; 8.40 Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and Tchaikosky'a Italian Caprice (Albert Rosen); 9.30 Shostakovich's Suite on- poems of Michelangelo and Schubert's Schwanengesang; 11.25 News. RADIO 4. 7.15 For Asian Listeners; 7.45 Sunday Pro: grammes; 7.55 Weather and programme news; 8.0 News; 8.10 Sunday Papers; 8.15 Sunday; S.50 Programme news; 8.55 Weather; 9.0 News; 9.10 (mw 'only) Sunday Papers; 9.15 (mw only) Letter From America; (mw only) The Archers; (9.10-10.30.

VHF only. Open University); 10.30 Parish Mass OPEN UNIVERSITY (VHF only) Radio 3. 6.0-8.0 a.m. 6.1 Maths Null Sets- 6.20 The Trails of Henry Padwick, CBE; 7.0 Conflict and Communication; 7.20 Cadences (1): 7.40-8.0 suoerconductiv tv. 9.30 Toolkit 10.00 Morning Worship 11.00 Catch J77 11.27 Weather 11.30 Farm Prpgress 12.00 Weekend World 1.

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