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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. (kHz) (now with Fairport Convention) Radio 1: 247 (1,214) first found limited fame. RadiO 2: 1,500 (200) Joni Mitchell-baring the Radio 3: 464 ( 64 7) John Peel Concert (7 .0 Radio 1) Radio 4: 276 (1,088) - Quintessence, the Eastern-influ· VHF (MHz) R2 R3 . KC enced band whose guitarist, Alan, Church.down Hill 89.0 91.2 93.4 poetic soul Hereford . . . 89 . 7 91.9 94.1 is one of the most inventive Northampton 88.9 91.10 93.3 Joni Mitchell in Concert: Friday 10.15 BBC2 Colour around; and Cochise, who are un­ OXFORD 89 .5 91.70 93.9 classifiable but have a fine steel­ SUTTON hat strange force is it her hands/she only brings him COLDFIELD 88.3 90.50 92.7 guitarist, B. J . Cole. 0 Stereophony (Radio 3 only) which drives a performer out to show her friends/I want Jazz CLub (12.5 Radios 1 and 2) - Stereo programmes availa ble from , to completely bare his or to free him.' In one of her best­ Sutton Coldfield and Northampton. W a tribute to Ted Heath, the most Further information from Engineering her soul in front of a vast known songs, ' Chelsea Morning,' renowned of British band-leaders. [nformation Department, Broadcasting audience of strangers? I sup­ she sings: ' And the sun· poured House, London WlA lAA. Even the top Americans held him Main stations a re shown in CAPITALS. pose we'll never really under­ in like butterscotch and stuck to in considerable respect Other stations are low-power relay sta ­ stand, because it's rare, a kind all my senses.' tions which do not serve wide area s. of chemical ' reaction between MONDAY artist and audience where the er precision, above all, will Barry Mason Show (2.0 Radio 1 artist depends on the audience, prevent her from being an and all week)-Lulu is the week's BBC Further Education which itself is awed by the know­ Gl influence on her contem­ special guest star. Publications ledge of what's being revealed. poraries in the way that Bob Jazz in Britain (11.0 Radio 3) - But it happens every night with Dylan, for instance, was. She is John Williams Group. BBC-1 ~~ot~ci ;~J1 ~I;a~~~~ for beginners) Joni Mitchell, and that's one of too singular to copy. 2 TUESDAY 12in LP Records 1, 2 and 3 22s 7d each the qualities which make her A couple of weeks ago she was fhe two books and three records from stand out. She depends totally voted top lady singer in the world Sounds of the 70s (6.0 Radio 1) - BBC Publications 79s Od. on ·that chemistry. Without a by the readers of Melody Maker: Peter Bardens, a groovy organist who used to play with Rod STUDY ON 3 AND 4 suitable reaction she can't per­ an extraordinary achievement for Deux enquetes du form her songs, which walk along a singer whose albums have only Stewart in the old Steam Packet, commissaire Maigret, 9s. and Rock Workshop, guitarist · the very fine line between stability been ·available in Britain for just STUDY ON 3 Ray Russell's big band. Britain in the Sixties, 5s Gd. and emotional breakdown. on a year. Success, though, was Chamber Music, 12s Gd. 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RADIO TIMES DATED 1 OCTOBER 1970 PROGRAMMES FOR 9 OCTOBER PAGE 47 BBC1 BBC2· Fridaytv Shelagh Delaney play* New ser ies: In Concert 8.30 pm Colottr Theatre, Coventry, to find out from a cross-section of the com­ Europa pany what makes them do it. Each week Europa looks at what Directed by TERENCE DIXON the Continent's 350 million tele· Nucleus vision viewers ar.e seeing on their Nucleus is unique amongst mod­ receivers at home. ern jazz bands. A quintet made On stations like TSS Moscow, NDR up of the cream of British modern Hamburg, ORTF Paris. ssR Geneva, jazz talent. It is backed by a and a host of others. powerful rock rhythm section in­ For wherever there is a story cluding John Marshall, voted top the film crews of our television instrumentalist of last year by colleagues on the other side of Melody Maker. Their music is the Channel are there reporting powerful and inventive, and and commenting. leader Ian Carr's new work ' Solar Introduced by DEREK HART Plexus ' has inter.ested both jazz Producer ANTHONY CHIVERS t and classical enthusiasts. Review invites Carr and Nucleus into the studio to give a sample­ of their special blend of formal 9.0 Colour jazz and progressive pop. Thirty-Minute Theatre Editor JAMES MOSSMAN

10.15 .) Colour: 1:{ew serieJ Joni Mitchell in Concert

8.0 pm Colour 9.20 Colour Dad's Army The Horse of the Year · by JIMMY PERRY and DAVID CROFT Show starring Arthur Lowe featuring John Le Mesurier The Sunday Times Cup and Clive Dunn The entry for tonight's major Did Your Nanny Come featuring jumping event for the Cup and JOHN LAURIE as Pte Frazer £250 is restricted to horses which From Bergen? JAMES BECK as Pte Walker have qualified by being placed by SHELAGH DELANEY ARNOLD RIDLEY as Pte Godfrey in Official International Horse Nanny (Agnes Lauchlan, above) IAN LAVENDER as Pte Pike Shows during 1970 and at selec­ has spent her life raising four in ted British Championships. children and a grand piano - and Boots, Boots, Boots then ... sings Joni Mitchell Commentator DORIAN WILLIAMS The first in a series of concert ARP Warden ...... BILL PERTWEE Introduced by DAVID VINE . Cast in order of appearance: performances by the new genera­ Mrs Pike ...... JANET DAVIES Presented for television by Elder sister ...... JUNE JAGO tion of performer-composers. To· Mr Sedgewick ...... ERIK CHITTY ALAN MOUNCER and DAVID KENNING Nanny ...... AGNES LAUCHLAN night Joni MitcheWs repert~ire The voice of BUD FLANAGAN First twin ...... GUY MIDDLETON includes her first hit Both Sides Design by PAUL JOEL Second twin ... MICHAEL TRUBSHAWE Produced by DAVID CROFT Now, her new song Califorriia, as 10.30* Colour Younger sister .. ALETHEA CHARLTON well as Big Yellow Taxi and Husband ...... JOHN REES Chelsea Morning. 24Hours Solicitor ...... DAVID ALLISTER with the_latest news in pictures Sound TONY MILLIER 8.30 Colour Script editor TIM. ASPINALL Lighting RITCHIE RICHARDSON Designer JOHN WOOD Design IAN RAWNSLEY, ROBIN TARSNANE Not Only ... But Also ..• Producer INNES LLOYD Produced by STANLEY DORFMAN t starring Directed by SUZANNE NEILD (Joni Mitchell - baring the poetic soul: 11.5* Colour page 13) . Peter Cook and Dudley Moore Next week: John Sebastian with Conference Report 70 Frank Muir Robin Day and Alan Watson re­ 9.30 Colour The Dudley Moore Trio port on the third day _of the 10.45 Colour Written by Conservative Party Conference at Review PETER COO!{ and DUDLEY MOORE the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. AQainst the Odds News on 2 The first in a series of Review and Weather Designer CHRIS THOMPSON Producer MARGARET DOUGLAS Producer JAMES GILBERT Editor RICHARD FRANCIS films about the theatre outside (first shown on BBC2) London looks at actors and their 11.30* Weatherman followed by situation. . 10.50 Colour Regional News and Weather (all The average actor leads an ardu­ 9.0 Colour except London and Wales) ous and erratic life working less Late Night Line-Up Closedown than half the year and earning MICHAEL DEAN looks back over the The Nine O'Clock News much less than the average un­ week with presented by Robert Dougall skilled worker. The odds against WILLIAl\-1 RUSHTON with the BBC's reporters and BBCl Variations achieving success and financial JAMES CAMERON SCOTLAND and other people, other views correspondents around the world 8.30-9.0 Current Account: reports from security are enormous. Weather · home and abroad Review went to the Belgrade Editor MICHAEL HILL

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