Evening Standard from London, Greater London, England • 24

i- -v -j" I 1 -V1 an i siVr mm 1 jijjlA' t' -i KrnaTiri JiiwWih -V 7 A THE STANDARD THURSDAY DECEMBER 2 fel Programme guide by CARLA DOBSON 1: THE CRITICS 7' I BBC 1 THAMES LAST VIEW RAY CONNOLLY News 1 Thames News Take the High Road 20-A Pius Strangers Definition 415 Porky Fig 420 Father Murphy 51 5 Emmerdaia Farm 545 News 10 Pebble Mill 145 Ounberwlct Green You and Me 215 Schools Colleges jB Snooker 355 Play School 420 Pixie and Dixie (repeat) 425 Jackanory 440 Huckleberry Finn and his Friends -John Craven's Newsround 511 Peter 540 News It was not a great film and the Irish sub-plot while pro In the experience of the first month 01 Channel Four 60 70 SOUTH EAST AT SIX Nationwide Sorry I digress THAMES Sport WHOSE RARYT Jimmy Young Barbara Windsor and Robin Ned-well quiz children in an attempt to guess the identity of their viding a thriller element needed also to be tied much more rigorously into the movie as a whole TOMORROWS WORLD Eventually by a series of interviews and pursuits of 70 witnesses the team get their story and complete their film AT The Standard Film Awards on Sunday my colleague Alexander Walker paid warm tribute to the contribution being made by Jeremy Isaacs for the new life which has been breathed into the British film industry by the arrival of Channel Four Whether you were amused by last Film on Four Fraying Mantis as I was or 7 75 T0P OF THE Human League FOPS uexy a nuuuui league celebrity parents WHEN I LAUGH ONLY 730 Perhaps the characters of the film-makers played by Glenda Jackson and Jon Finch could have been filled out better with more details about their lives when they 80 Includes Mniinpy Duran Duran and the Jam SORRY! Final episode in which our mother-dominated anti-hero (Ronnie Corbett) overdoes it playing tennis 80 only to find it has suddenly become sub judice when the police prefer charges against one of the conspirators So the film was cancelled due to technical reasons and the bailiffs set out to era not working This undoubtedly would have lo SHELLEY Hywel Bennett In the title idle finds himself in a crowded Tube train that gets stuck in a tunnel Should he communicate with his fellow travellers or be British and bury his nose in the paper? FALCON CREST The poor man's Dallas Emma runs away and Cole is arrested for murder TV EYE The death of Neil Aggett exasperated by its structural short-con omings as were some of evict the family Along the if way there was a greaf deal of thinking out loud things Mr Francis felt had to bo 830 930 olved the sympathies more effectively But Francis had several its to make and like the acumen tary maker lie once was he made them quickly and effectively The main plot concerned a tenant farmer about to be MADXE8S uttfR said to get the message across 100 my colleagues- you cannot escape the fact that Channel Four is providing funds to make possible a spinal chord of quickly made specially written films Last Film on Four Giro City has already had a brief outing in the cinema but it was made primarily for television on a television-style budget and using television funds and equipment Even the subject of Giro City which was written and directed by Karl Frauds concerned television and the obstacles which He In the evicted from his home by a retext local council on the pret 8 an ONLY FOOLS AND HORSES 3W Last in this pace? series Del sees the chance to (David Jason) Ingratiate himself with the county set £'Q NEWS Weather Personally I would have preferred to see them dramatised but I understand his problems So we visit the natives once a week placate our consciences pick up 20 grand a year and scram" said Glenda Jackson In morbid self-revilcment This Is all true but never so self-consciously articulated All the same it was an interesting film which looked at contemporary problems through the contemporary medium NEWS Including Thnrapa News headlines 1030 roYAL PREMIERE GANDIIL Coverage of the Royal European premiere of Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi in the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales Judith Chalmers and Chris Kelly talk to the stars and commentate on all the bowing and handai suitably reverential tones-1110 THRILLER: The Carnation Killer he commits his crimes at random and leaves a red carnation as his mark of Identification-much the same way as Brian Clemens writes his TV screen Close with the Rev Lewis that the house was uninhabitable The real reason concerned of course Mg business and a plan to build containers for nuclear waste on the site I thought this was laying It on a Mt thick as was an anti-feminist head of the Channel TV Ten but I imagine there are a great many anti-feminist heads of television companies these days follow- 25 TEXKO Christina has a note for lRose from the camp in episode seven of this mawkish series of the Poulson variety y-i C11 V1' 10 70 QUESTION TIME with Sir Robin ivv jjay Around the debating table are Bernard Levin Peter Hain Tom King MP and former Liberal Party chairman Margaret Wingfield 1118 News headlines 1 1 20 SNOOKER The Coral UK Profes- slonal Championship 1210 Weather 1215 Close EARLY TV TOMORROW BBC 1: 50 For Schools Colli colleges News After Noon BJKC 2 Play School ITV: -A Handful or SongB1210 Once Upon A Time 1230 Makers Plas ITV TVS as London except i 61 5 One of the Boys 6J) Coast to Coast Crossroads 7j0 fimmerdale Farm 1030 7Days 110 Gandhi 1M0 The Two Of Us i'v a A 'v 4 1 V'-vW 1 ITV Anglia as London except: 50 About Anglia 620 Arena Crossroads 7JJ Survival 1030Follo 110 Gandhi 1140 In the Mouth of the Dragon BBC 2 CHANNEL 4 420 The Best of Collecting Now The Levin Interviews 520 Arthur Negus Enjoys 540 What on Barth? 5 in EUREKA The fifth In a lively V( series about the inventions of what are now everyday objects Tonight the pocket calculator the saxophone and the pneumatic tyre CARTOON TWO 1 a 445 Countdown 515 Cartoon World 530 The Body Show COURT The voyeuristic hit show from America where real-life cases are tried before the whacky retired Judge-Wapner 5 30 TOM KEATING ON PAINTERS Tonight Keating examines the paintings and techniques of the French impressionist Edgar Degas and recreates the fames "Dance picture which hangs In the Louvre NEWS 70 THE JAM: a Wembley farewelL 5 45 NEWS SUMMARY Weather No more Jam sessions THE first at The Janft final 80 THE JAM: concerts last night can hardly greatest be described as the PETER farewell show a bend has ever performed The sound at Wembley Arena was mushy snd the two backing ringers brass section and keyboards player who A HOLT are they breaking up? The reason is that the leader WeUer hates the idea of the band growing old and stale Foxton and Buckley are known to be unhappy about the split However Weller Is so he seems to have a morbid fear of that he will doubtless become as Mg a star in his forthcoming Bob career TOWARDS AN UNKNOWN LAND A journey in the company of Dame Freya Stark one of the best loved of the breed of intrepid British lady travellers and explorers This film follows her treks by pony through the Nepalese Himalayas as she approaches her 90th birthday "Risk is the salt and sugar of life" says she 0 15 SIX FEET OF THE COUNTRY 1 Fifth in a series of adaptations from Nadine short stories about life in South Africa 5 50 THIS LAND IS MINE (IMS) Charles Laughton One of Jean anti-Nazi films made in exile in Hollywood with Laughton plucking the right emotion out of a studio-bound French town under German occupation as the timid man who makes a patriotic stand when circumstances force him to fi 30 RUSSELL HARTY Viewers get the chance to help make tonight's edition access television isn't confined to Channel Four YES MINISTER The Moral Dimension unbeatable Whitehall comedy series with Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne as the Minister and his mandarin-This week Hacker leads a delegation to the Persian Gulf with Sir Humphrey on hand to point out the difference between a bribe and an accompanied trio together the Jam have decided to split Personally I think that their departure will be any loss to the rock music scene Praise a young black boy is taken the street by a young English woman teacher who educates him added to the confusion the band led by the angry Paul Weller with the passive Bruce Foxton and Rick Buck-ley still managed a good If tiines the material was very poor the group seemed suddenly to perk up and lash out excellent versions of numbers like Precious and Mr Clean After around half a decade Their fans who are so loyal that any newly-released Jam singles go straight Into the Top Ten will violently -disagree The 8000-strong teenage audience last night were on their feet and whooping at the first number 80 if so loved why Just as he is in line for an Oxford scholarship he disappears without trace hope he loses some of his smugness gains a sense of humour and proves wrong that theory or many music writers that If you wrote an article entitled What Makes Paul WeUer Laugh end up with a blank page 930 JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL CHRISTOPHER GRIER FREYA STARK Intrepid A legend in masterly form sc f' 5 v- 10 15 WHAT THE PAPERS SAY Editor 1 1 of Private Eye Richard Digrams tflkMc a critical look at the FORTY MINUTES: Mr Moonlight A fascinating portrait of Frankie Vaughan the gum-chewing hero of the fifties who flirted with Hollywood (and Marilyn Monroe) returned to the Britain of the Stones and Beatles survived that and is now popular as ever as an elder statesman of pop He and his wife of 32 years Stella discuss their life together their values their crises and their successes closing on one for the mums Frankie crooning his cabaret show-stopper Give lie The Moonlight prince among -Pierre Rampai something ox a something papers in a moire welcoming time Sot than its it pas was conducted by the third member of the amazing Chung family from Korea the Julliard-trained Myung-Whun brother of the famous violinist Kyung-Wha and cellist Myung- on but still bedtime IO ao THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS IU3V (1974) u0t Paris France hut (1974) wot ran trance cut Players he had however other tasks These were Moz- Concerto in put across with captivating address and Cart Concerto a late and faintly work bitty and piecy but rewarding enougn when tackled Dy a master and backed aa yesterday ao unsatisfactory piecy but £yung-d wha Paris Australia in a highly to- -J- ted aenious horror-flic directed by Peter Weir in pre-Picnic at Hang SINCE that flautists Jean-: has become legend it was almost dlsoon-to see and hear this year-old In action in Royal Festival Hall last night Was It not in Gothic times that he and Veyron-Lacroax recorded the Bach sonatas with such idiomatic panache? It waa about then that his versions of Vivaldi concertos used to waft by Tannoy over the- slopes of Courchevel (Wen anything is possible In a ski resort run by ax music critic) an ex- 1010 I8TH CAMBRIDGE FOLK FESTIVAL Featuring the Hank Wangford Band the Bully Wee Rand Mitch Greenhill and Mayne iAj and Lindlsfarne 1 040 newsnight tl i ing Rock days Townsfolk Up traps for passing motorists like the old-time ship wreckers then scavenge off toe bodywork and contents until the four-wheelers stage a terrifying AW It la something of a Sln-fooda Concertante with lesser starring rales for other solo Sharing their outsize talents he is a most impressive operator and made out a thoroughly plausible case for early and almost unknown Fust Symphony Neither underrated master- Sleoe nor historical curiosity I proved full of theatrical atmosphere good tunes and entrancing things for woodwind and horns to play I suspect they enjoyed It as much as we did ists a challenge nimbly met by members of the Players 4' 1 130 EDDIE NUTTGENS: worker in STAINED GLASS Posthumous £lm of one of the last craftsmen England who worked in the william Morris arts sad crafts tradition Close The orchestra sounded in capital form as it had shown from the outset in Trauer Symphony No 44 It WUh the London Mozart iir-Vv lx.