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.