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ITV BBC 1 THEATRE: MILTON SHULMAN 120-Llttle Blue Stepping Stones 1230 The Sullivan News at One' 128 Thames inews 130 For Muddle wnn Love 20 After Noon Plus Midweek Racing 345-Llfe Begins At Forty Little "House On The Prairie 515 Mr' and Mrs News" Thames News Help 3C BATTLESTAR GALACTIC The Long Patrol Second-rate UJ3 sci-fi Import has Lt Star buck imprisoned on a mystery planet where fellow captives expiate the crimes of their ancestors With Richard Hatch Lome Greene Dirk Benedict 7 3Q SPOONER'S PATCH: The Birth- dav Double Starring Donald- 80 830 90 cnurchiii and Patricia Hayes BENNY Compilation of the best of Benny over the past 10 years With guest Nicholas Parsons TV EYE reports on the leadership fight within the Labour Party with contributions from some of those closely involved MINDER: Not A Bad Lad Dad A nine-year old boy who turns up on Terry's doorstep gives our macho hero a minding job with a difference this week The bov thinks Terry's his uncle But since Terrv did once spend a few days with the child's mother he could be his father Dennis Waterman and George Cole star -NEWS Thames News Headlines i 100 News Pebble Mill At One 145 Tou And Me -For Schools Colleges 355 Play School Touche Turtle Jackanory 440 Heidi Jobn Craven's Newsround s5i- Blue Peter 535 The Amazing Adven- tures of Morpb News' 555 Nation- wide fi 55 TOMORROW'S WORLD: Judith Hann Michael Rodd Kieran Pren- diville and Su Ingle report on such topics as how the Atlantic has been moved sideways to reveal a fortune in diamonds and an aerosol which allows vou to use an electric drill underwater (should you so WiSh)'- 720 T0P 0F THE pops 7 55 BLANKETY BLANK: Guests on Wogan's eyer-popular game show include Norman Collier Liza Goddard John Junkln and Anni --'Ross 8 30 YES MINISTER: Jobs For The Boys Alas' the last (until next year) of Antony Jay and Jonathan -Lynn's immaculate corridors of power comedy Our final glimpse of Paul Eddington and Nigel Haw- thorne's superlative comic perform- ances has the minister wondering why Sir Humphrey is so evasive about a departmental construction proJect- (Repeat)' 90 NEWS with" Jan Leemlng Weather 25 MACKENZIE: sole Agent Can the heavens hold worse for' the luckless Mackenzie than his son's death last week? Of course they can His Irresistible agonies -continue with --Jean visiting their remaining child to find the neadmaster looking at her with more than parent-teacher -affection With Jack Galloway Kara Wilson Sheila Ruskin 10 15 QUESTION TIME: Robin Day's masterly political shout-in returns with panel' James' Prior David" Bassnett Patricia Hewitt and Daphne Park answering the studio audience's questions 1 1 1 7 KOJAK One For The Morgue The bald cop questions an easy soiu- -tion to an assassination attempt (Repeat) Weather ITV SOUTHERN as London except The -Southern News -and weather The Entertainers 415 -Salvage 1 Mr Magoo Cartoon 520 -Crossroads 80 Day By Day Survival 70 miner dale Farm Nanny- Knows Best ID 3 5 Your Westminster Musical Special 1215 What The Papers Bay Weather FNJOY by Alan Bennett at The Vaudeville is a uiack comedy that Is clearly disgruntled about the state of British society -But since there- is so much to be bitter about In our present state of floundering values It Is not easy to sort but which of Mr Bennett's resentments he expects us to take seriously In a working class district of Leeds the elderly Cravens await the bulldozers that are soon to knock down the street in which they live The local council however Is "keen that this demolition work should not destroy a close-knit community imbued with virtuous leelings of self-help and self-reliance To decide how best to retain these virtues they have initiated a survey in which social workers -silently observe the typical behaviour patterns of these threatened families so that their environment can' be reconstructed -in- sonw more cheerful suburb of Leeds i Derision It is Alan Bennett's conceit to show us how preposterous such do-goodihg schemes really are The realities of working-class -life 'are far different from the sentimental vision of academic sociologists Mr Craven' incapacitated because of a -hit-and-run accident Is an avid reader of pornographic magazines while hypocritically rejecting his son because he Is a homosexual Mrs Craven Is a vague distracted woman with a memory so bad that when she goes out to get something tasty for tea she comes back with toilet rolls Their daughter Linda Is not a high-class secretary as they claim but a low-class taxi Neighbours urinate through their letter-box and vandalise the area It takes more than a bit of vinyl to change human 10 30 THAMES REPORT: Tourism in Trouble After last week's 'appall---" lnglythin story on the police pro- tection of London's diplomats Thames- Report turns to hopetuilv safer ground with a somewhat be- lated report about how the capital was affected bv the -desertion of Jhe tourists this' summer John Wlth- ington asks why the tourists stayed away and what problems lie ahead forLondon if they continue to do 110 CALLOUS Colin Blakeley and Joan Plowright so i LOU GRANT: Influence The best American- series of" the moment which cries -out for an earlier slot has publisher Mrs Pynchon flattered into supporting a controversial new airport With Edward Asner as loveable Lou Robert Walden and Nanov Marchand WHAT THE PAPERS SAY with Ian Waller of the Sunday Tele- graph Close with Lord Den- numour ana ms saraonic Dia 120 logue that lightens the misanthropic mood of this moderately funny comedy But I'm afraid the mixture of derision and banter tends to be more confusing than amusing Joan Plowright as Mrs nature" observes Mrs Craven By the play's end Alan Bennett has demonstrated that 20th-century values imposed on the working class have made their liie-style callous-brutish and ugly that the welfare state has sapped them of their ability to cope with such basic elements of life as the family birth and death that lt is a middle-class academic aberration that these people either want their way of existence preserved or that it is worth preserving It Is Mr Bennett's glancing ning ITV ANGLIA as London except The Rlordans Anglla News 345-Our Uttle Town Mumbly 420 Project UFO 515 Take My Wile 80 About Anglla 020 Arena 0 Crossroads 70 Bygones 730 Nanny Knows Best Folio uraven displays a Drauani comic touch as she tries to im- remember a wav of life she la supposed to desire Colin Blakeley Is aggressively querulous as the rustvated angry Mr Craven BILL GRUNDY Last night's view 7 BLACK NARCISSUS (1947 A) Deborah Kerr Sabu David Parrar Flora Robson 3C A 'CHANGE OF SEX: The Year This second film in the BBC's trilogy about a transexual in search of a sex change exammes George' Roberts's first year as Julia jnust live as a woman for that -time at least before the National Health psychiatrist will decide on 8 ranting him the operation Preiu-ice and violence Is what Julia encounters though she does make I a friend 10 an CARTOON TWO Chairmen "TT Satirical cartoon made for the National Film Board of Canada Newsnight ARCHIE BRENNAN Tapestry Weaver Portrait 'of aScottisn craftsman-artist (Repeat) 715 News -Weather i- 'f- 7 25 DOOR: Hollywood SE23 The British cinema is alive and well in Forest Hill School according to this access film made by the rjoys of the school's prolific flhn-making unit We see them at work on their latest production in Wales to demonstrate that the team-spirit engendered bv the enterprise is just as important as the films they -make as they say in my part of the world 1 felt that their teeth were all tingling fresh And I have little doubt that their strength is as of the strength of ten because their hearts are pure Eamonn Andrews is worth better than this if only ha could overcome his innate modesty Somewhere in Brit- ish TV there must be a place for a person who is common in the correct sense of the word whose integrity is unimpeachable and whose intellect is far sharper than i we have yet been allowed to suppose But I don't think This Is Your Life is it caster who many years ago now wrote a superb little book all about architecture It was called Ghastly Good Taste And the title might have been coined especially to describe This Is Your Life Last night it was all about -Joe Loss Unimpeachable It is the manner of the programme which puts me off There- is one led to believe no sort of flaw in the subject I am sure this is -true of Mr and Mrs Loss But is it true of every bodyr Everybody seemed so clean and specially got up I HATE been rural all this week by the TV -Times On the cover is a sort of caricature of sculpture I knowis of Eamonn Andrews because it says so and yet it bears a distinct resemblance to David Frost I have met -both of them and can tell you they are nothing like each other In any way Tho cover is of course to celebrate if that is the word the return of This Is Your Life a show which has the same sort of attraction as the macabre always does I think it was Osbert Lan- mm RADIO LONDON 206m (1458 kHz) VHF OS'S I fl Robbie Vln-Avf0 cent i London Live 40 RADIO 1 285m (1053 kHz) VHF 1 fl S9 LJOAi Peebles 12 JO Newebeat 1245-Paul Burnett 232 Blrnon Bates 32 Peter Powell Newsbeat 132 25 Years of Bock 71-Mlke Bead 102 -John Peel (t) 31ose London news uess 5 J5 HIGHLIGHTS PsodIs who worry about ths future of ths British oar industry dsspits the 1 arrival of ths Mini Mstro (why- didn't thsy sail it ths Panaosa?) should not miss Nisht-lins (LBC 90) which comes from the-Motor Show at Birminsham and has not only Miks Diekin talkina to manufaotursrs and other optimists but also tho Evening Standard's astrolocsr Katina makinc some Inspired auto--: suassstions for ths futurs Anyone awaks at 2S am will find an hour-of Elvis Presley rooords on Radio Luxombours ehosenby Tony Prinoe Hon Presidsnt of tho Proslsy Fan Club Music on tne Move 73 Black Londoners 00-5-0 Join Radio 2 CAPITAL RADIO CONCERT: CHRISTOPHER GRIER 104m (1548 kHz) VHF 058 All Droarammss aro (8) solos (Jill Gomez and Helen Woft onH fhA mofVAllnsis! ti fl oranam oene Avr o-iio London (S) In -Pepertory Woman's Hour 32 Theatre Daydream 30 Berkeley and tsy a Mozart chamber music Today) 30 Roger Scott London To- RADIO 2 433m (803 kHi) VHF 1 1 A Jimmy Young 1V-: (S 123 David Hamilton (S) 2 VA Stewart (S) Believer by Barry Duffln mttox 88 Nicky Home lis Tony as ewnoenDerg News nly for Pleasure (S) Myatt 28 Richard (8) 350-FrltB Splegl's Musical Alphabet Bookshelf lifemanship PM 80 News 830 Any 70 Talking About Muslo (S) 738 As auinaon Much More Music CSV 63 John Dunn (8) 82-Country Club (8) Radio 4 UK Words Bartok and 201 (1152 kHi) Though not yet completely at ease in this music the conductor Rozhdestvensky brought to it an obvious sympathy More flexibility will follow Earlier with his evlfe Victoria Postnikovaas soloist he had- presented an account pungent scintillating and lyrical of Prokofiev's Second Answers 855 It a a Bargain 70 News 75 Branms cnamner music B2 Aian ucu si aaa Snort 1 02 jt- The VHF S7'S WHO'S that young fellow coming oh muttered my neighbour "That's the composer'' Oan't be Look It says herer born 1905 If' -though Sir Michael Tlppett seems ageless so too does his oratorio A Child Of Our Time performed last night tat the Royal Festival Hall by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Agonisingly topical in its day 40 years on lt is stdfll topical On present form It la likely to stay that way What's more -the score refuses -to date Since then Tippett's Idiom has of course evolved but he had already established a language all his own one remaining as valid and as surprising as ever it was Who could begin to guess which way his vocal lines would which doesn't make them any easier for singers to pitch or chart Sympathy The writing for the narrator undertaken last night by John Shirley-Quirk turns awkward corners as does that of the tenor part (Kenneth Wool-lam) problems sometimes compounded in the latter case by brassy backgrounds No matter It works as do News Huddlinea 1030 Arcners 720 iimi for Verse 730 Scot (51 i nignt iijl News -11JS-1115 1 Reports L4iJ After tish National Orchestra: Star Sound Extra 44 4 Brian Matthew KiQ4it ao NlKntllne Paleetrina (8) RADIO 4 Tchaikovsky arr Btra- LBO Reports Mid 128 News 12-5 0- night Night Extra vinsJEy Menaeisoonn St He Calls Me Godmother! 135 Part Music (S RADIO 247m (1215111111 1500m (280 kHtl 417m (728 kHi) VHF 82-85 i 1 1 File on 4 a Tchaikovsky 130 LUXEMBOURG 8- 208m (1448 kHilj Top of the Pops 00Adult Contemporary Top 80 -118 Chimnlon Rock Kaleidoscope 100 World Tonight 11 0 Book at Bedtime 1115 Piano Concerto This was preceded by two choicely romantic juvenilia by the same composer Dreams and the White Swan Who would have guessed that so soon Prokofiev was to be hissed as a monster of modernity U1 Howells and lUReed (S) in and Franck Enaul re Within 122-You and votitb 1997 of Financial world Champions 120 Night unlike so much other perfectly respectable 11 so Parliament TMAva si trivia Kros 1140 Pond and Ui Iorm 1S (a News Cello and Piano recital Boccherinl and Brahms more especially the women Famjluur One iOv-Arcners 41 0 (IX i ll i.