r M~DLANDS 3-9 October Nn!rnel)Demtce BBC Rad~o Nottingham Piccadilly Golf America torn apar't World Matchplay Championship The Chicago trial, Sunday BBCl Thursday-Friday, BBC1, Radio 2 Man Alive, Wednesday BBC2, p 50 You and Yours Joni's Concert · Weekdays, Radio 4 Friday, BBC2, seep 13 Nottingham jamboree Dougal is back! BBC Radio Nottingham: Friday Weekdays, BBCl See pp 5, 56 Magic Roundabout in colour, p 10 PAGE 3 _ WHAT DOES·IT COST TO BECOME FREE? France 1938-40 In his trilogy The Roads tQ Freedom Jean-Paul Sartre, the BBCtv and Radio programmes great French philosopher and political thinker, used the for the week 3-9 October novel to explore one of the central problems of modern man: how to achieve per· sonal (!nd political freedom in a world of moral and social chaos. The three novels, Contents· The Age of Reason, The Reprieve, and Iron in the Soul, are set against the bleak In a cold sweat ............ 6 background of _France on the edge of the second world war, and he created a group Elizabeth Cowley talks to Jordan of characters who stand out in modern fiction: self-questioning and fallible, they Lawren_ce, the man behind Men­ ace, the thriiler series for the live out a tangled· 20th:-~entury morality play, struggling for love, friendship, and dark winter nights _(Tuesday commitment as Europe heads towards disaster. BBC2). - - Their predicament, writes Cellan Jones could see in the with a kind of attractiveness, an Anne Chisbolm, -was condi­ part of Mathieu was, he says, individual beauty, which might Travelling _ tioned b.y poHtical events that Michael Bryant. Why? Bryant, not be what Sartre intended.' Hopefully ...... :............... 8 Sartre hadjust lived through, a thoroughly professional self­ · Although Daniel, played by The World_ of Bob Hope (Thurs­ but their struggle is just as aware actor, himself gu.ardedly Daniel Massey, and Brunet, played day B~Cl) follows the veteran relevant today. The events suggests an affinity to Mathieu. by Donald Burton, are vital to the comedian round. the us on a ' He's in me - he's one of the story, it is Mathieu who gives it 100,000 mile concert tour which are different, but the prob- facets of me. One of the people coherence. David Turner leads up to an unexpected climax lem remains the same. · I know he's ineffectual, the playwright who Unlike most novels that have yes, but cool with it. He's dramatised the novels Zebedee springs translated successfully into unbothered with life - no, sees Mathieu as ' the television terms, The Roads to capable of coping with life. Hamlet of our age - back! ................ :....... 11 Freedom (Sunday 10.5 BBC2) I find cool:n.ess attractive.' Hamlet with a Jump aboard The Magic Round­ social ·is Bryant's own life looks about (weekdays BBCl), and join structurally as well as in­ rather more satisfactory than Florence, Dougal, and their friends tellectually_ complex. In turn­ in some more modern parables · Mathieu's with a beautiful wife, ing it into 13 parts, the BBC four children, and - his consum­ has probably attempted its ing passion - a boat. A slight, fair Because it is most challenging serialisation man, looking younger than 42, he yet. dislikes talking about acting. there ........................ 12 As in the novels, the three ' Couldn't we talk about something That's why George Mallory sensible, like sailing or politics? ' attempted 'Mt Everest in 1922. parts remain clearly defined, and Tuesday's Documentary (BBCl) at the centre of them all is the He sees the current relevance looks at the climb that killed him character of Mathieu Delarue, the of The Roads to Freedom theme. and Andrew Irvine in 1924. intellectual who thinks too much ' It's relevant to every generation, and asks too many questions to but it's especially applicable to be able to commit himself to any­ young people. The cool thing - High-flying bird ... ... 13 one or anything. getting outside and ·looking objec­ Joni Mitchell, the clear-voiced James Cellan Jones, the direc­ tively at yourself - is very much Canadian recently voted the tor, sees Mathieu and the two of today. That's w.hy I like it.' world's top fe_male singer in the other main characters, Brunet, Bryant is aware of the difference M el ody Maker poll, in concert the committed Communist, and between Mathieu in the novels (Friday BBC2) Daniel, the reluctant homosexual, and Math.ieu alive on the screen. as three alter egos for Sartre ~ I suppose I try to make Mathieu Michael Bryant as himself : ' but Mathieu is the one human and funny. He is rather Sartre's Mathieu: America for whom he feels the most con­ the victim of circumstances over torn apart .... ·.... 50-55 sistent sympathy.' which he has little control. It's 'relevant to every A 4-page feature linking pro­ The only actor that James the actor's job to inject him generation' grammes on America's domestic problems: On Trial (BBCl Sun­ day) is a dramatisation of the spent the summer in three Ameri­ trial of the Chicago Eight, and · America.1960-70 can communities which came into Man Alive (Wednesday BBC2) the headlines this year. The first presents The Mood of America. What price freedom in America - is Kent, Ohio, where National and where is the world's richest Guardsmen shot four · students This Week's Films .................. 12 nation heading? That's the con­ dead. This Week's Sounds ............... 13 cern of a number of important 'We are hoping,' says Man Alive ·editor Desmond Wilcox, Wavelengths ................ ~ .......... 13 programmes on BBCtv and radio this week. The first is On Trial - ' that a profile of the whole town Cover photograph by a. dramatic presentation on BBC! will lead to a better understand­ JOHN PERKINS on Sunday at 8.15 of the Chicago ing of America's mood.' trial of eight men charged with A special RADIO TIMES four-page Radio Times published by the British Broa d­ disrupting the 1968 Democratic colour feature starting on page 50 castin,5 Corporalion from 35 Marylebone H igh Street , London WlM 4AA. E very Thursday, Convention and fomenting a riot. illustrates the history and atti­ price 9d. R egistered as a newspaper at the Post Office . Subscription ra tes. Including On Tri al will be followed by Ad tudes of America's most turbulent postage: Great Britain and Irish Republic: Lib - a new weekly discussion 12 m onths £3.5 .0: 6 months £1.12 .6; 3 m onths decade. f6s 3d. Overseas: 12 m onths £2.17 .6: 6 programme. ' There's no doubt,' Other BBC programmes this months £1 .8 .9 ; 3 months 14s 5d. Subscrip­ tions should be sent to the above address or says producer Eddie Mirzoeff, week include ' Malcolm X ' (Mon­ to any newsagent. Printed In E ngland and Scotland by Waterlow ' that one of our subjects that day 7.0 Radio 3), containing an ex­ & Sons Limited , Park Royal. London NWlO, and East Kilbride, Glasgow . Radio Times night will be America's crisis.' clusive interview which producer (Incorporating World Radio) 1 October Then, on Wednesday on BBC2 Graham Tayar obtained with 1970 . Vol 189. No 2447. Copyright In all programme details In this Issue ls strictly at 8.10, a special four-part Man Malcolm in Ethiopia in 1964; and reserved by the BBC. Unauthorised r eproduc­ tion In whole or In part of any such details Alive series begins, The Mood of The World of Bob Hope (Thurs­ AL Freeman Jr as Bobby Seale, Included in Radio Times is prohibited. @ British Broadcasting Corporation, 1970. America. Man Alive teams have day, 9.20 BBCl). bound and gagged in Chicago RADIO TIMES DATED 1 OCTOBER 1970 PAGE 13 BBC Colour tv and ************-* Radio Stations Colour Television Channels BB Cl BBC2 THIS WEEK'S Brierley ·Hill (1970) 63 Bromsgrove (1970) 27 Fenton .. (1971) 27 Kidderminster (1971) 64 SOUNDS Lark Stoke (1971) 26 Malvern ... (1971) (1970) RIDGE HILL .. (1972) (1972) by Richard Williams SUTT.ON COLDFIELD 46 40 WALTHAM 58 64 SATURDAY . Wh.ere BBC! is available in Colour you Foik on One (2.31 Radio 1):... The may find your bla'ck and white pie ~ tur·e is improved by watching the Pentangle. Listen, for a change, Colour Channel on 625 lines (as for to the playing of their superb BBC2). Please 'consult your local sup- - plier. b.llssist, Danny Thompson. Dates in brackets represent the an­ Top Gear (3.0 Radio n ticipated year of service. Disco 2 (7.45 BBC2)-Mark/ Almond, a new band formed by two ex-John Mayall sidemen; film BBC2 Colour trade tests Monday.Saturday: 9.0 am-7.0 pm of Eric Burdon making a pilgrim­ 10.0 am Service Information; 18.28 Colour Receiver Installation film; 11.0 age to his native Newcastle after (Sat only) Colour film; 11.30 Service a lengthy sojourn in America; Information; 11.35 Colour film; 12.5 and Orange Bicycle. K~ ~ 0J~~r ~~i:.1~1:e 5 I~sf~~~~\1~n~ 0~~~~ The Harry Secombe Show (8.15 Colour film; 3.10 Colour film; 3.30 ·BBCl)-with guests Bobbie Gen­ Colour film; 4.30 Colour Receiver In­ stallation film ·(Mon-Fri only); 5.39 try and Mason Williams, of Colour film; 6.15 (Mon-Fri only.) Tun­ ' Classical Gas ' fame. ing Information followed by Colour film; (Sat only) Colour film. (Subject to programme commitments and en­ SUNDAY gineering work.) Country Meets Folk (4.1 Radio 2) -with the Ian Campbell Folk Group, long stalwarts of the Brit­ Radio .Wavelengths: ish scene, and the context in Midlands which fiddler Dave Swarbrick .Metres.