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.