First of 20 programmes taking a look at the week's TV presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses Dennis Potter 's play Rain on the Roof (LWT), the prison documentary series Strangeways (BBC1) and the romantic drama serial Mackenzie (BBC1) with theatre critic Michael Billington , prison governor William Driscoll and novelist Susan Howatch , author of Penmarric. Sue Peacock introduces the Did You See viewers' quiz - this week: army comedies. Shoestring's originator, Robert Banks Stewart , talks of the popularity of his wry radio gumshoe.
A look at the week's TV presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses British television's coverage of the US election, Jonathan Dimbleby in Evidence: The Bomb (YTV) and the American comedy series M*A*S*H (BBC2) with journalist and broadcaster Godfrey Hodgson , defence expert Lord Chalfont and the Monty Python star Graham Chapman. In the Did You See .. ? viewers' quiz, Sue Peacock tests your memories of monarchy on the box. Also, the development of TV satire from TW3 to Not the Nine O'Clock News.
A look at the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy, who discusses The Shock of the New (BBC), Horizon: Behind the Horoscope (BBC), and Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World (YTV) with art critic Marina Vaizey, astrologer Roger Elliot and ex-editor of the New Scientist, Dr Bernard Dixon. In the Did You See...? viewers' quiz Sue Peacock asks questions on past television dramas set in the business world. Also John McGrath, director of The Adventures of Frank, who believes that TV drama should be freed from being a close, realistic imitation of life.
A look at the week's TV presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses the medical Play for Today: Minor Complications (BBC1), the dramatisation of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (BBC2) and Roald Dahl 's Tales of the Unexpected (Anglia) with former Secretary of State for Social Services The Rt Hon David Ennals , mp, film critic Tom Hutch inson and crime novelist P. D. James. In the Did You See .. ? viewers' quiz Sue Peacock tests your memories of the unpredictable happenings of live television. Also Rex Bloomstein , producer of Strangeivays (BBC1), talks about filming in prison.
A look at the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses Oppenheimer (BBC2), Panorama (BBC1) and The Good Companions (ITV), with James Burke , Dr Miriam Stoppard and playwright Michael Hastings. Sue Peacock examines medicine on television in this week's Did You See ... ? viewers' quiz. Also, cameraman Philip Bonham -Carter who made his directorial debut in Première IV.
A look at the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses Love in a Cold Climate (Thames), Best of British: Brian Patten (BBC1), Something Else (BBC2) with novelist Susan Howatch , literary journalist Blake Morrison and television presenter Janet Street-Porter . In the Did You See .. ? quiz, Sue Peacock asks questions on the law as seen on television. Robert Kee talks about the making of Ireland: A Television History (BBC2).
A look at the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses the documentary series Great Railway Journeys of the World (BBC2), the Play for Today: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (BBC1) and the current affairs programme Weekend World (LWT) with travel writer Jan Morris , Colin Middleton Murray, who writes science fiction under the name Richard Cowper , and Anthony Howard , Editor of THE LISTENER. Sue Peacock asks questions on marriage as seen on television in the Did You See .. ? viewers' quiz.
Presented by Ludovic Kennedy, who discusses The Merchant of Venice (BBC2), Everyman on Nicaragua (BBC1) and the documentary on Toyah Willcox (ATV) with Michael Billington, Christopher Hitchens and Peter York Sue Peacock dips into the archives of past Christmas programmes.
A look back at the week's television presented by Ludovic Ken nedy, who discusses the Play for Today: Beyond the Pale (BBC1), the documentary on the writer Somerset Maugham (BBC2) and the return of That's Life (BBC1) with playwright Arnold Wesker , literary critic Anthony Curtis , journalist Katharine Whitehorn. Also Christopher Hampton talks about his television adaptation of Malcolm Bradbury 's novel The History Man
A look at the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses Arthur Miller 's television film Playing for Time (ITV); the Arena documentary Hazell Meets His Makers (BBC2); and the drama serial on a black detective in London which is called Wolcott (ATV) with The Rt Hon Dame Judith Hart , mp, Manuel Alvarado , University of London lecturer in television, and Trevor Phillips , reporter on the LWT programme Skin. Also Jeremy Isaacs , Chief Executive of Channel 4, talks about the organisation and structure of the new television channel.
A look at the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses the serialisation of Malcolm Bradbury 's novel The History Man (BBC2); the documentary that claims to have solved The Mysteries of Hieronymus Bosch (BBC2); and the documentary series Facing Death (LWT) with David Lodge , novelist and Professor of English at Birmingham University, Marina Vaizey. art critic of the Sunday Times and Dr Anthony Clare of the Institute of Psychiatry.
More people receive their news from television than from any other source. Could they be better informed? A look at one day's television news bulletins, in which Ludovic Kennedy discusses the BBCtv and ITN versions of the news on Wednesday 28 January. Among those taking part are Peter Woon , editor, BBCtv News and Chris Dunkley , television critic of the Financial Times.
Presented by Ludovic Kennedy, who discusses Trevor Griffiths' dramatisation of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers (BBC2), the situation comedy Solo (BBC1) and the current affairs series TV Eye (Thames) with Valentine Cunningham, tutor in English at Oxford, agony columnist Anna Raeburn and journalist John Pilger.
Presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC2), the Play for Today, Beloved Enemy (BBC1) and the documentary on Manchester City Football Club, City (Granada), with astronomer Patrick Moore , playwright Alan Plater and sports journalist Julie Welch.
A look at the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses A Sense of Freedom (STV), the dramatisation of the life of Jimmy Boyle; Barry Norman's film review Film 81 (BBC1); and the between stairs' life of Wendy Craig as Nanny (BBC1). This evening's guests include Verity Lambert, Chief Executive of Euston films and television journalist Tom Mangold.
A review of the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses the Panorama programme (BBC1) on Britain's security services. I Heard it Through the Grapevine (ATV), a documentary about James Baldwin 's return to America's deep south, and the classroom series Grange Hill (BBC1) with Liz Forgan of The Guardian, writer and headmaster Bernard Ashley and New Statesman journalist Christopher Hitchens .
Chat about chat presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses Parkinson (BBC1), Russell Harty (BBC2), Friday Night ... Saturday Morning (BBC2) and Afternoon Plus (Thames) with Jane Reed , Philip Norman , Joe Steeples and Chris Dunkley.
Ludovic Kennedy presents a special edition of the programme which looks at television and, with historians and politicians, discusses Robert Kee 's 13-part series for BBC2 and Ian Stuttard and Richard Broad 's five-part series for Thames Television, The Troubles. With the authors: Robert Kee : Ungarbling the past is what this series is about. Richard Broad : We tried to provide the historical background of the problem of Northern Ireland. The historians: Owen Dudley Edwards , Edinburgh University; Professor David Hark -ness, Queen's University, Belfast; Dr Ronan Fanning, University College, Dublin The politicians:
A review of the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses the serialisation of Jane Austen 's novel Sense and Sensibility (BBC1), the pre-Budget World in Action (Granada) in which journalists enact the Cabinet discussion, and the television autobiography, Muggeridge: Ancient and Modern (BBC2), with David Lodge , novelist and Professor of English at Birmingham University, The Rt Hon Norman St John-Stevas , mp, until recently a Cabinet Minister and Catherine Freeman , Editor of Thames TV's Afternoon Plus, who as a young producer worked with Malcolm Muggeridge on Panorama.
A review of the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy The programmes: The Omnibus (BBC1) profile of Stevie Wonder - the man, the music and his politics; the South Bank Show (LWT) in which Melvyn Bragg interviewed novelist Martin Amis and the actor Robert Redford, who has just directed his first feature film, Ordinary People; and the Playhouse production, Unity (BBC2) by John Mortimer, based on the biography of Unity Mitford by David Pryce-Jones. The critics: Rachel Billington , novelist and playwright, Valentine Cunningham, tutor of English at Oxford and Times Literary Supplement critic and Robin Denselow, Newsnight reporter and rock critic of The Guardian. Also an interview with Shaun Sutton who has been the Head of Drama at BBC television for the last 12 years and is soon leaving that job to produce the BBC Shakespeare series.
A review of the past week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy, who discusses Elaine Morgan's dramatisation of The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (BBC2); the everyday stories of British life as seen by Nationwide (BBC1) and the tales of the Victorian underworld investigated by Sergeant Cribb (Granada). With John Grigg, the historian and biographer of Lloyd George, David English, the editor of the Daily Mail, and Edna Healey, whose book Lady Unknown dealt with the Victorian age.
A review of the week's television Presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses The Clive James Paris Fashion Show (LWT), the Playhouse production of WILLIAM DOUGLAS HOME'S You're All Right-How Am I? and ROBIN DAY'S Question Time. Among those taking part are Drusilla Beyfus, associate editor of Vogue magazine and Dr Anthony Clare of the Institute of Psychology.
A review of the past week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses JOHN PILGER 'S documentary Heroes (ATV) about the plight of returning American Vietnam war veterans, The Play for Today: Psy Warriors (BBC1), and the film biography of the Israeli military leader and statesman Dayan (BBC2), with Roger Mills , who was recently given a BAFTA award for his work in documentaries, the military historian John Keegan , and Diane Harron who reported on the Israeli army in the BBC series Women at Arms.,
A review of the past week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses The Kenny Everett Video Cassette (Thames), Chronicle: The Electric Revolution (BBC2) and the documentary on The Royal Ballet, Right Royal Company (BBC1) with author and actor Terry Jones , architect Piers Goff and dance critic Jan Murray.
A review of the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy With a discussion of People from the Forest, the BBC2 film about the Soviet scientist and dissident ANDREI SAKHAROV , inventor of the hydrogen bomb and Nobel prize-winner. Among those taking part are Peter Redaway , senior lecturer in political science at the London School of Economics, and Peter Prince , writer of the BBC series Oppenheimer. Also Robin Denslow , Newsnight reporter and rock critic of The Guardian, with a critical report on television's treatment of rock music.
A review of the past week's television presented by Ludovic Ken nedy who discusses LORD SNOWDON'S two films on photography, Snowdon On Camera (BB€2); ROBERT KEE 's Paperbacks (BBC1); and the comedy drama Private Schulz (BBC2). With Lord Lichfield
A review of the week's television presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses the documentary on back bench MPs, Westminster Man (Thames), the Playhouse, set in a terminal cancer ward, Going Gently (BBC2), and the series based on a hospital psychiatric unit Maybury (BBC2), with former MP Helene Hayman and Dr Anthony Clare of the Institute of Psychiatry.
The last of eight programmes A review of the past week's television in which Ludovic Kennedy discusses RICHARD LEAKEY 'S seven-part series The Making of Mankind (BBC2), which traces our development from ape-like creatures on the African savannah three million years ago into the most powerful and dangerous animal that has ever been. It is a story about what makes us human and from which we can predict our chances of survival.
The television weekly review presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses Tenko (BBC1), Horizon: The Race to Ruin (BBC2) and The South Bank Show: Elvis Costello (LWT) with Maria Aitken , William Shawcross and Dave Cash.
The weekly television review presented by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses the drama serial The Woman in White (BBC2), Play for Tomorrow: Shades (BBC1) and the analytical current affairs programme Weekend World (LWT) with author and reviewer Julian Symons , novelist Ian McEwan and writer and lecturer in politics Dr Janet Morgan.
Comment, highlights and reviews of the week's TV presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses Year of the French (BBC2), Play for Today: Aliens (BBC1) and The Barchester Chronicles (BBC2) with former ambassador Sir Nicholas Henderson , playwright Marcella Evaristi and former Bishop of Salisbury The Rt Rev George Rein dorp. Plus a look at Brian Hayncs ' independent Satellite TV company.
The television review programme with Ludovic Kennedy who this week discusses The Thorn Birds (BBC 1), Men.... (BBC2) and the situation comedy about life in an East End flat, Dream Stuffing (Channel 4). Among those taking part will be Germaine Greer , Charlotte Bingham and Christopher Matthew. Plus Chris Dunkley looks at the impact of television documentaries on those living near the Sellafield (formerly Wind-scale) nuclear processing plant.
The television weekly review presented by Russell Davies who this week discusses The Other Half (BBC1), Z for Zachariah (BBC1) and Just What is It? (Channel 4) with novelist William Cooper playwright Elaine Morgan and Patrick Kinmonth of Vogue magazine. Plus TV producer, presenter and former mp Philip Whitehead on the TV coverage of the Chesterfield By-election.
Introduced by Ludovic Kennedy who discusses The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady (Central), Play for Today: Desert of Lies (BBC1) and Brass Tacks: Liverpool (BBC2) with the country book writer 'Miss Read', Sunday Times drama critic Robert Hewison and lecturer and social worker Kay Carmichael. Plus Michael Poole of The Listener on the role of the newspaper television critic.
In the last of four specials made up of clips from previous Did You See..? episodes, the programme looks at the work of producer Biddy Baxter on Blue Peter, both in her own words and from the point of view of the presenters.
Did You See..? receives a special airing on BBC1 for this look at Brimstone and Treacle. Ludovic Kennedy discusses the new Dennis Potter play with Germaine Greer, Gerald Priestland and W. Stephen Gilbert.
A BSB special, with Jupiter Moon, First Edition and I Love Keith Allen all getting, at best, lukewarm reviews from Douglas Adams, Eve Pollard and Craig Ferguson. There's also a feature on 50 years of Hanna Barbera by Gilbert Adair.