There's a lot of theatre involved^

Election People Apart from the professional politicians, for whom Election Night is always a nail-biting mixture of hope. ioy and despair, the hottest

seat after the count surely belongs to the man who is heading BBC Television's results marathon. Jenny Rees talked to anchorman Alastair Burnet for whom ...

'HERE WE HAVE an election coming in the middle of

a crisis between the Govern- ment and the Unions. We haven't seen anything like this since the war,' says Alastair Burnet.

An award-winning television

journalist, he's presenting the General Election results mara- thon on BBCtv (Election 74, Thursday 10.0 pm BBC1) for the first time since he crossed over from ITV.

' It's a great television turn,

isn't it? ' he says. ' Butler and McKenzie with their psepho- logy, and Robin Day with his interviews ... it was good to be against them-but it's very good to be with them.'

Demanding and exacting as the TV marathon may seem to

anyone watching (and it is) that's not how it feels to Burnet on the night. ' If I weren't in the studio, working and involv-

ed, I'd be waiting and watching anyway. It's the greatest peak in politics.'

An election has a momen-

tum of its own, he says. ' You

get enmeshed in the coverage during the campaign. But of

course, something that happens in the outside world can sud-

denly pull you up. As in 64, when Khrushchev got booted out in Russia. That kind of

thing catches you out.' But back on the home front,

here we are with our General Election in the middle of the National Emergency. And yet a low turn-out wouldn't sur-

prise Burnet: ' Turn-outs have been falling really

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Poll programmes... 17 ... from BBCl's Midweek Special on Saturday night, BBC2's Mid- week Specials (Mon-Wed), through to BBC1 and Radio 4's full, live coverage on Thursday night/Fri- day morning, results and news on all channels and wavelengths throughout Friday and BBCl's final round-up of Election 74 on Friday night.

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Election People

since the 50s,' he

says. ' The Conservatives say they can get their people to the poll better than Labour. But with the three-day week, Labour people, having nothing else to do, may turn out in greater numbers. There are Labour organisers who fancy their chances.'

No one knows why turn- out figures are falling. ' Britain isn't politically apathetic. People just don't put politics first in their lives, which is one reason why the Conserva- tives have a better track record. Audience figures for party political broad- casts are high.'

Perhaps what Burnet enjoys most is the second day of the results pro- gramme: Moving-vans at No 10, cars going back- wards and forwards to and from the Palace. There's a lot of theatre involved.'

Just a stiff gin and tonic

'No pep pills, just a stiff gin and tonic at the

start,' says Hardiman Scott of his stint presenting Radio 4's Election Special 74 (Thursday 10.30 pm).

With him will be Anthony King, Professor of Government at Essex, and Robert Carvel, Politi- cal Editor of the London

Evening Standard. As BBC Political Editor,

based at the House, General Elections take on a more personal meaning for him. ' I've friends on both sides,' he says, ' and it gives me a twinge to see a friend lose his seat. It's sad to see the unreturned Members collecting their belongings.!

Scott: Elections take on a more personal meaning

When all hell breaks loose

Reporter Michael Cockerell (left)

is just one of those who'll be staked out with a BBCty Outside Broadcast unit at one of the key con- stituencies to catch the declaration.

A If we Tre allowed inside for the count, we all have to s,ign the Declaration of Sjcrecy. Sometimes we're out in th� cjgld, hanging about. I never wear a vest

-just 4 beavy "overcoat! ' The annougicement is al-

ways a real human drama, he says. 'Theft all hell breaks loose. All the world loves a winner so there's a

rush to get that first inter- view.

1 There's the classic technique of sticking a microphone under his nose. Some people have bigger feet, louder voices and longer arms for that; it can be ungentlemanly.'

The man who calls the race

Although this is Graham Pyatt's fifth BBCtv Gen-

eral Election, he still lurks in the background. If anyone would be hard hit by a computer failure, Pyatt's the man.

Editor Mike Townson says: Graham's the man who calls the race. We don't understand the com-

puter. He does. We'll be- lieve him, not it, if there's doubt.'

Professor of Mathemati- cal Economics at Warwick, Pyatt is the computer's mouthpiece, interpreting its predictions. A man to whom computers are more than mere machines, he's excited about the BBC one. 'It's large and fast.'

Graham Pyatt: he's the computer's mouthpiece

Sophisticated bingo caller

Meet 'the Blow- er ' - alias Jan Fairer. She'll be

prowling up and down Studio TC1 and as the telephonists take down results on the specially prepared forms, Jan mur- murs them into her lip- microphone. Her ' mini- broadcast! triggers into action everybody you see on your screen.

I It's a lot of walking for a sophisticated bingo call- er. I wear flat shoes and take glucose tablets. I have to pull around a long cable for the mike, so I feel like a puppet on a string. After the last Elec- tion, I had cable fatigue.'

Jan's other worry is food. You live on choco- late, cheese sandwiches and coffee - in any order.'

Jan: her ' mini-broadcast' triggers into action every- one you see on your screen

Consuming passion

General Elec- tions, for David Butler, the poli-

tical economist (above, at Nuffield College), who'll be doing his usual spot analy- sis of the results as they come in, monitored through the computer, are not so much work as a consuming passion.

This is his eighth BBCtv General Election: They make one feel part of the

great national pageant.' A Fellow of Nuffield Col-

lege, Oxford, he's a do-it- yourself enthusiast and father of three small boys. Writing his seventh Gen- eral Election book, he won't be spending Election Day reding up, but visiting polling stations and Party HQs. ' My late night in the studio is far from an or- deal,' he says. ' I'll be doing my favourite thing, getting constructive argu- ments going, based on friendship and trust.'

The agony and the ecstasy

' The General Election prog- ramme is the

zenith in TV directing. It s the really big one,' says Keith Clement, who has landed the plum this time.

In the gallery of Studio TCI, Keith's facing a bank of 25 monitor screens, con- trolling eight cameras and 24 Outside Broadcast units.

On ' switch talkback' he's talking right into the ear- drums of Burnet, Butler, McKenzie, Pyatt and Day as they're talking to you.

He's got the producers' decisions in his own head- phones. But it's Keith who makes it all happen. ' The joy, blatantly, is the power. It's an agony and an ecstasy.'

Keith Clement: he's the man who makes it happen

Master of the Swingometer

Bob McKenzie, master of the Swingometer,

dashingly describes his role on the night as ' giv- ing a spaced-out reflective commentary.'

Definitely a gadget man, this time round he's got a new one - ' the light pen.' With it, he points out the details on the giant State of the Parties and Share of the Vote boards.

A Canadian, with the cumbersome title of ' Pro- fessor of Sociology (with special reference to Poli- tics) ' at the London

School of Economics, he first took up the Swingo- meter back in the 50s.

' Now it's a major Gen- eral Election prop,' he says, with pride. 'I thought it up with Grace Wynd- ham Goldie, who was then a BBCtv Talks department executive. It was a very

simple affair. We've rede- signed it several times.'

Although every Election has its own quirks, Mc- Kenzie views this one with special interest. ' The key question is whether the winning party can form a government with a major- ity big enough to last for five years. Or might we be having another election within the year? '

McKenzie, and that mo- ment in the 1970General ???? tH the ) Gene,a Election when an artist had to extend the ' sioing '

AH fed and watered...

To keep the' 600 or so people in and around the

Election Results studio TC1 fed and watered, Brian de Ville (catering manager at BBC TV Centre) has laid on 3,500 cups of coffee, 100 gallons of fruit squash and 1,000 rounds of sandwiches. A smaller studio has been set aside as a rest room with a buffet on offer for the crucial 21 hours.

The 300-plus new ' seats in this Election have been analysed to see how they would have voted in 1970: these notional results are in our Election Guide- see pages 12-16.

My Choice

Robin Day I'll be in the studio every night this week work-

ing on the election pro- grammes, so my choice is made for me. I start with a 9.5 am radio show, then on to the party press con- ferences, then back to the studio to work on that evening's programmes, in- cluding extended News (Monday and Tuesday BBC1) and Midweek (Sat- urday BBC1, Monday, Tues- day, Wednesday BBC2).

We have had our own ( election programme' running all day and every day in our central control room - a bank of monitors which show us speeches being made by leading politicians all over the country. By the time we reach Election Night (Election Results Thurs- day BBC1), the back- ground to my interviews is firmly in my head, though I still face the in- terviewer's perennial pro- blem of when to follow up a question and when to change the topic. You have to restrain yourself from being ' clever,' from chasing a side issue where you have good supplemen- tary questions and thereby running out of time to ask a major question every- body wants to know about.

Thank goodness for the Party Election Broadcasts (Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, BBC1 and 2). Like all party political broadcasts, they get very big audiences and because they exist, people like me can get on with our real job of asking the ' how ' and the ' why' behind party claims. I'm especi- ally pleased in my fourth General Election to be chairing the first election period phone-in (Election Call, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday Radio 4).

Robin Day is the inter- viewer on Election Results (Thursday 10.0 pm BBC1)

The RADIO TIMES Election Guide This full guide to all 635 constituencies lists; 1) the holding parties; 2) the ' sitting members,' their majorities at the last election and if

they're retiring; 3) in the case of ' New' seats, the party that the BBC's Election Research Unit presume would have won in 1970, the proportion of the voters who are the same as at the 1970 election-all this information is in italics. If you want to keep track of the shifts of power, mark unchanged seats with a V , seats that change between the two major parties with a X . Liberal gains with a 0 and Independent gains with a 0

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Election 74: this is the studio that brings the election home with results, news, predictions and polls. Election night coverage kicks off with the Nine O'Clock News and, after half-an-hour with the Garnetts, the big question as the polls finally close is Con, Lab or Lib? at the start of BBCl's marathon six-hour election programme: 10.0

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10.0 Colour

Election 74 Con. Lab or Lib Who's ooing to be your MP? Who's going to

govern Britain? You'll know first with the BBC- and Alastair Burnet As the polls close, the result of three how-did-you-vote surveys in key constituencies will be the earliest guide to the story of the night: Is it Conservative or Lab- our for the next five years, or could Liberal hold the power? Nobody will be watching early developments more than the party leaders: The Prime Minister Rt Hon Edward Heath in his constituency, Sidcup with DAVID DIMBLEBY Rt Hon Harold Wilson in Huyton with MICHAEL CHARLTON Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe in Devon North With DAVID LOMAX

The first declaration is expected from Newcastle Cen- tral, Guildford, Cheltenham or Salford. Whichever it is, the Election 74 camera unit record- ing the result will start the full- est, fastest results service ... analysis ... prediction ... and explanation of what it's going to mean to Britain and to you. Alastair Burnet leads the coverage from the Election 74 studio with David Butler explaining the detail behind each result, watching especially for the key marginal constituency results Graham Pyatt interrogating the computer as it instantaneously relates each vote to the national trend Robert McKenzie keeping the score (the State of the Parties), seeking the clues, statistically and intuitively, to the name of the next Prime Minister and Robin Day interviewing those making the news and those par- ticularly affected by the news. Outside broadcast units will be at the most important declara- tions throughout the night ... inside the party headquarters in London ... and with the crowds watching the results on the BBC's giant TV screen in Trafalgar Square.

Area reports from the BBC's local TV Newsrooms at 10.55; 12.55; 1.55; 2.55; 3.55 Designer BRIAN ELLIS Graphics ALAN JEAPES Co-ordination MARY KEENE and ROSEMARY TULLY Producer TAM FRY Director KEITH CLEMENT Editor MIKE TOWNSON

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The Mystery of the Tubantia's Sunken Gold Treasure, intrigue, piracy and deep-sea salvage-these are the ingredients of the story NEVILLE BARBER narrates, which begins with the sinking of an ordinary Dutch steamship in March 1916. But records recently opened to the public reveal far more. What emerges, for the first time, is a fascinating account of secret operations by Britain and Ger- many at a crucial stage of the First World War. Research DOROTHY SPOKES Film editor colin HILL Film cameraman PETER HALL Executive producer PAUL JOHNSTONE Written and directed by ROY DAVIES A BBCtv-Société Telcia Films co-pro-

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10.30-4.0 am Election Special 74 Who Rules Britain?

Your verdict at the polls. The fastest and fullest results service. Forecasts and Analysis.

Chairman Hardiman Scott BBC Political Editor Political Analysis: ANTHONY KING, Professor of Government in the University of Essex, and ROBERT CARVEL. Political Editor of the London Evening Standard. Trends and Predictions: All the computer forecasts- and special analysis from the BBC Computer. Live coverage: With special reports from the Party leaders' constituencies- Sidcup, Huyton, and Devon North-and from the main Party Headquarters. The key seats will be covered by reporters with outside broadcast units both from the Network and. for the first time in a General Election, from BBC Local Radio stations. Comment and discussion from the politicians, winners and losers, and from the journal- ists who chart their fortunes. A Radio News. Current Affairs, Outside Broadcasts and Local Radio co-production Executive producer BERNARD TATE Radio 3 takes up the Election results service at 7.0 am. Election People: pp 3-5; Guide: pp 12-16 Inshore forecast 11.46*-11.49* 4.0* am Closedown

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Friday BBC1 6.0 am Colour Election 74

Who's Happy Now? Who wakes up to the good news this morning-Mr Heath or Mr Wilson?

Find out with Michael Barratt and Alan Watson in the Election 74 studio ... replay of the most dramatic declarations of the night ... interviews with the winners and losers ... reaction from the public on their way to work ... analysis, prediction, and a look at the lighter side of it all. Plus regular announcements ex- plaining when to switch to BBC2 to see the complete voting figures for your constituency and at 6.10-6.25, 7.10-7.25 and 8.10-8.25 from Scotland to the West Country the election stories and the personalities in your region. Presented by LARRY MCCOUBREY in Belfast PETER COLBOURNE in Birmingham GRAHAM PURCHASE in Bristol VINCENT KANE in Cardiff DAVID SCOTT in Glasgow PHILIP HAYTON in Leeds GERALD HARRISON in Manchester GEORGE HOUSE in Newcastle MALCOLM ALLSOP in Norwich KEITH BLACKLER in Plymouth BRUCE PARKER in Southampton at 6.30, 7.30 and 8.30 World News and Weather

9.0 Colour

Election 74 The new Prime Minister is ... Results ... developments ... analysis...

party totals ... predictions and then, the verdict, Conserva- tive or Labour - or will Liberals hold the balance? As the final counting starts, Alas- tair Burnet returns to the Elec- tion 74 studio with Robin Day, David Butler, Robert McKenzie and Graham Pyatt. Together, they report the end- game of Election 74, wait for the party leaders to make their speeches of concession and vic- tory, and consider the likely shape and style of the next Gov- ernment. Outside broadcast units at the most crucial counts of the day, in- cluding those in Northern Ire- land; following the party leaders throughout the day; watching the comings and goings at the party headquarters; and talking to voters throughout the country. At 11.55, 12.55 and 1.55 Local reports and comments from the Area Newsrooms. At 1.30 World News and Weather

3.0 pm Colour Holiday 74 with Cliff Michelmore and John Carter (Shown on Thursday at 8.30 pm) Book 50p: see page 54

Who won what, and where? As the smoke clears after the drama of last night's results, the full picture of the new parliament emerges. For the up-to-date news join Election 74 on BBC1 at 6.0 am, 9.0 am, 6.0 pm and 9.25 pm. BBC2 will be running through all results so far between 7.30 and 10.0 am

3.30 Colour Animal Stars 9: Dolphins Dolphins are the top of the animal pops - according to the latest evidence. These whales are star performers in numerous sea circuses throughout the world. Tony Soper and Eva von Rueber-Staier visit Florida where the modern craze for dolphinaria started. See how dolphins are turned into top stars; how easy it is for Eva to become friends with some big and boisterous dolphins; and watch the biggest animal stars on earth in action. Director ALAN STROWGER Producer JOHN SPARKS (Bristol) t

3.58 Regional News (except Scot- land, Wales, London/South East)

4.0 Colour

Play School A programme for children under 5 (Shown on BBC2 at 11.0 am)

4.25 Colour Clangers by OLIVER POSTGATE Music t Music hath charms ... and it grows well too, which is fortunate because the soup-dragon ate most of it.

4.35 Colour

Jackanory with Patricia Hayes Tiger Nanny by URSULA MORAY WILLIAMS

Today: Queen of the Nursery Pictures by JAN BRYCIITA Adapted and directed by JEREMY SWAN Executive producer ANNA HOME (Next week: ' Tristan and Isolde ' with Martin Jarvis)

4.50 Colour Pink Panther The Pink Panther theme by HENRY MANCINI

5.0 Colour

Crackerjack with Peter Glaze Don Maclean, Jacqueline Clarke and special guest Ricky Wilde Script BOB HEDLEY, BOB BLOCK, TONY HARE Music BERT HAYES AND HIS ORCHESTRA Designer RICHARD MORRIS Director BILL ERSSER Producer robin NASH

5.40 Colour

Magic Roundabout

5.45 Colour National News with Kenneth Kendall Weather

6.0 Colour Election 74

How the Battle was Won Blow - by - blow, the story of the last 20 hours since the clos-

ing of thp polls. Alastair Burnet and the Election 74 studio team take a final look at the most significant results, re- play the most dramatic moments of personal victory and defeat, and assess the lessons of Election 74. Including at 6.5-6.20 News of all today's results from each Area Newsroom. Producer TAM FRY Director KEITH CLEMENT Editor MIKE TOWNSON

6.45 Colour The Friday Western: Buffalo Bill starring Joel McCrea Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell with Thomas Mitchell, Anthony Quinn The story of William Frederick Cody - a spectacular account of the man who became a legend in his own lifetime.

Buffalo Bill Cody JOEL MCCREA Louisa Cody MAUREEN O'HARA Dawn Starlight.......LINDA DARNELL Ned Buntline....THOMAS MITCHELL Yellow Hand ANTHONY QUINN Sergeant Chips...EDGAR BUCHANAN Senator Frederici....MORONi OLSEN Murdo Carvell FRANK FENTON

Director WILLIAM WELLMAN

8.15 Colour The Good Old Days Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the Famous City Varieties Theatre, Leeds (by arrangement with Stanley and Michael Joseph) Your Chairman, Leonard Sachs. introduces Ken Dodd, Lyn Kennington Jan Hunt, Panto Chantal and Dumont Members of She Players Theatre, London JACQUIE TOYE, CLIFTON TODD LORAINE HART, MIKE FIELDS DUDLEY STEVENS, COLIN RICHMOND

Choreography DOREEN HERMITAGE Musical director BERNARD HERRMANN Producer BARNEY COLEHAN (Ken Dodd and Lyn Kennington are in ' Ken Dodd's Laughter Spectacular ' at the Opera House, Manchester)

BBC1 Variations WALES 6.45-7.15 Heddiw: topical items 7.15-7.40 Nansi Richards: harpist 7.40-8.15 The Flower Maiden: a medi- eval tale of the Mabinogion 10.10-10.45 Cywam: topical events 10.45-11.15 Holiday 74: holiday hints 11.15 11.25 Personally Speaking: Robert Owen

Friday BBC1 9.0 Colour

Nine O'Clock News with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weather

9.25 Colour Election 74

And Now To Work Introduced by Alastair Burnet Britain now has a new Government

and new MPs. But the problems that the new Government must deal with are the old ones. What will the newly-elected or re- elected team do to solve the economic and industrial troubles that led to the General Election? How different will- the new Bri- tain be? Editor PETER PAGNAMENTA

10.10 Colour Menace The Solarium by KEN TAYLOR

starring Georgia Brown Sinead Cusack Terence Alexander with Mark Rogers Young Harry lives in a house of secrets. When he stumbles on part of the truth, the inevitable end is tragedy. Cast in order of appearance: Harry Foster...........MARK ROGERS Stephens............MICHAEL BURRELL Bella....................MARGO ANDREW Ellen Foster GEORGIA BROWN Sylvia Terry SINEAD CUSACK Gerald Foster..TERENCE ALEXANDER

Singer PETER PRATT

Producer JORDAN LAWRENCE Director ANTHEA BROWNE-WILKINSON t

11.25 Colour Late Night News

11.30 Colour

A Man Called Ironside A new film series starring Raymond Burr as Robert Ironside Don Galloway as Det-Sgt Brown Don Mitchell as Mark Sanger and Elizabeth Baur as Officer Fran Belding with guest stars Johnny Seven Jean Allison, Kenneth O'Brien Friend or Foe A large haul of heroin is seized and held in custody by the police as vital evidence against the boss of a crime syndicate. But while the package is in the sole charge of Lieutenant Reese and Sergeant Borden it disappears. Which one of them is a crooked cop?

12.20 am Weatherman: Close

BBC2

6.40 am Open University

7.30 Colour Election 74

Results Round-up In alphabetical order each of the 400 results so far with all the details

- candidates, votes and totals, who has lost his deposit, which former MPs have failed to get back and, wherever possible, the swing to Lab or Con. On-screen announcements on BBC1 will tell you when your constituency is about to come up Repeat starts 8.45 am

10.0 Closedown

11.0 Colour

Play School Story: The Thrush Written and told by Percy Edwards Presenters CAROL CHELL, STAN ARNOLD

Pianist BILL LE SAGE Double bass LENNIE BUSH Designer ANDREE WELSTEAD HORNBY Scriptwriter JUDY WHITFIELD Director PETER CHARLTON Producer ANNE GOBEY Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE (Repeated on BBC1 at 4.0 pm)

11.25 Closedown

2.15 pm Colour Racing from Haydock Park 2.30 The Humpty Dumpty Hunt- ers' Chase Amateur Riders (over 3 miles) 3.0 The Greenall Whitley Handi- cap Hurdle (over 2 miles) 3.30 The Mad Hatter Novices' Chase (over 2 miles) Commentators JULIAN WILSON and CLIVE GRAHAM

Reporter TONY GUBBA Television presentation by RAY LAKELAND

3.45 Closedown

5.25 Open University

6.40 Developments in Social Work Non-Professional Help What are appropriate tasks for non-professional helpers in the Social Services; what should the criteria be for their use; how wide can their brief be expanded? Series editor JOHN RADCLIFFE Producer BRIGIT BARRY

7.5 Open University

'Spring is sprung/the grass is riz/we know where P. Thrower is.' He introduces the first of the new Gardeners' World series with a took at ways of making light of your greenhouse chores: 7.45

7.30 Colour News Summary Weather

7.35 Colour

Now and Then with Robert Erskine Toy or Talisman? A perspective of animal-figures which helps us assess the efforts of our children. Producer BETTY WHITE

7.45 Colour: New series

Gardeners' World In the first programme of 1974 Percy Throwir shows the latest in labour-saving equipment for the greenhouse, and Margaret Thrower has some advice on pre- serving spring flowers for long- lasting arrangements in the house. Producer BARRIE EDGAR (Birmingham) Percy Thrower's Guide to Gardeners' World from booksellers, price 50p

8.15 Colour

Eagles in Exile A film portrait for St David's Day of the Polish Community in Wales. What happens to a person's pride in his nation, or in himself, when he is forcibly separated from the land of his birth? Thirty years ago, the first Polish families settled in Wales. They are still with us. Some are integrated, others are not. No matter what their situation, their spirit seems undaunted. The White Eagle, crowned symbol of old Poland, is never far from their thoughts. In it they see a promise which colours their attitudes to life in exile and also their hopes for a different future. Producer Richard lewis, BBC Wales

8.45 World Cinema: Eve starring Jeanne Moreau Stanley Baker with Virna Lisi A Welsh miner becomes a success- ful author overnight and has a destructive affair with a strange, provocative and mercenary French woman, beautifully played by Jeanne Moreau. Set in Venice and photographed by Antonioni's cameraman, Eve, which was filmed in English and made just before The Servant, marks one of the high points in Joseph Losey's career and is a typical film of the 60s-stylish yet harsh.

Eve JEANNE MOREAU

Tyvian Jones........STANLEY BAKER Francesca VIRNA lisi Branco GIORGIO ALBERTAZZI McCormick...........JAMES VILLIERS Director JOSEPH LOSEY

10.30 Colour Edition Introduced by Barry Askew The Press and the Election: A look at the way newspapers reported the 1974 General Elec- tion. What is the political im- pact of the Press?

CECIL KING Producer WILL WYATT

11.0 Colour

News Extra with Peter Dorling

11.30 Closedown

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Radio 1 Radiol:247m and VHF at times: see page 35

Time, traffic, and News sum- maries at 5.0 am 5.30 6.0 6.30 7.0 (Fri only) 7.30 8.0 (Fri only) 8.30 then every hour on the half-hour until 6.30 pm 7.0 8.0 9.0 11.0 12 midnight 1.0 am 2.0. Thurs only: 3.0 and 4.0 am Weather at 5.2 am 5.32 6.2 6.32 7.32 8.32 6.32 pm 2.2 am Time: Big Ben at 5.0 am; GTS at 7.0 am 8.0 8.0 pm 10.0

5.0 am as Radio 2

7.5 Noel Edmonds Producer MIKE HAWKES including at 8.30

Newsbeat with Richard Skinner and the Newsbeat team

9.0 Tony Blackburn Producer ROGER PUSEY

12.0 Johnnie Walker Producer RON BELCHIER including at 12.30

Newsbeat More news with Richard Skin- ner and the Newsbeat team

2.0 pm David Hamilton Producer PAUL WILLIAMS Including at 2.3t

Newsbeat More news with Richard Skin- ner and the Newsbeat team

5.0 Rosko's Round Table A Radio 1 DJ and a star per- sonality discuss their pick of the new releases Producer KEITH STEWART including at 5.30

Newsbeat More news with Richard Skin- ner and the Newsbeat team

7.0 as Radio 2

10.0 Stereo

Rockspeak Also on VHF Music and talk from the rock scene Presented by Michael Wale Producer JOHN WALTERS

12 midnight as Radio 2 2.2* am Closedown

Radio2

Radio2: 1500m (also 202m Scotland) � VHF: p35

Time, traffic, and News sum- maries at 5.0 am 5.30 6.0 6.30 (VHF and 247m) 7.0 7.30 8.0 8.30 (Fri only) 9.0 then every hour on the hour until 5.0 pm 5.30 6.0 6.30 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12 midnight 1.0 am 2.0. Thurs only: 3.0 and 4.0 am

Weather at 5.2 am 5.32 6.2 6.32 (VHF and 247m) 7.2 7.32 8.2 8.32 9.2 5.32 pm 6.15* 6.32 2.2 am Time: Big Ben at 5.0 am; GTS at 7.0 am 2.0 pm 8.0 10.0

Shipping (1500m only) at ' 6.30 am 1.55 pm 5.55 12.30 am

5.0 am News Summary; weather

5.5 Stereo Barry Alldis with The Early Show Producers BARBARA PAGE and CHRIS MORGAN Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought

7.5 Stereo Terry Wogan Producer CHRIS MORGAN including at 8.27 Racing Bulletin and at 8.45 Pause for Thought t

9.5-11.0 Stereo Pete Murray's Open House Producers HARRY WALTERS RAY HARVEY and ANGELA BOND (Requests, on postcards please, to ' Open House,' BBC, London WIA 4WW)

11.5 Stereo

Election Extra with Jimmy Young

Election flashes, comment and actuality. And of course. the best of Radio 2 music

Election People: pages 3-5; Election Guide: pages 12-16

2.5-5.0 Stereo John Dunn

Including late Election news and results with music all the way

Election People: pages 3-5; Election Guide: pages 12-16 including at

Waggoners' Walk NW (Repeated: Monday, 10.30 am)

5.2 Stereo

Tony Brandon Producer BILL BEBB

6.50 Sports Desk

7.2 Husband of the Year (Saturday's broadcast) t

7.30 Hubert Gregg says Thanks for the Memory to you, and adds a few remi- niscences of his own Producer SHEILA ANDERSON

8.2 Stereo The Frank Chacksfield Hour with the BBC RADIO ORCHESTRA and guests on records Producer CHARLES CLARK-MAXWELL

9.2 Stereo A Day for David Words and music for St David's Day 1974 with Glyn Houston. Nerys Hughes Johnny Morris with Robert Docker (piano) Maureen Guy. Mari Griffith Kenneth Bowen GWALIA MALE CHOIR LONDON WELSH MALE CHOIR BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA leader ARTHUR LEAVINS conducted by OWAIN ARWEL HUGHES Producer BARRY KNIGHT

10.2 Late Night Extra 1500m only (also 202m Scotland) Keith Fordyce takes you into the weekend world of leisure, pleasure and sport with the music of the BBC NORTHERN DANCE ORCHESTRA conducted by BRIAN FITZGERALD THE KENNY BROWN TRIO and the competitive game Snowball Including at 10.15 Sports Desk

12.0 Midnight Newsroom

12.10 am Stereo Night Ride Presented by Len Jackson

2.0 News Summary; weather 2.2* am Closedown

Radiol/2VHF When no variation is shown below, VHF transmitters carry the listed Radio 2 programmes 10.9 pm-12.0 Rockspeak (see Rl)

Q. Nerys Hughes looks pretty daffy about St David's Day: why was the daffodil adopted as Wales's emblem? A. The leek was thought vulgar. A Day for David: 9.2 pm

Radio3 464m

and VHF: see page 35

Time; GTS 7.0 8.0 9.0 am

7.0-9.0 am Election 74

Full classified overnight results For easy refer- ence, Radio 3 offers this spe- cial service of

all the overnight election re- sults, broadcast in alphabetical order and divided into approx- imate time-sequences. Listen- ers wishing to know particular results can thus tell roughly when they will be coming up. While unavoidably a particular sequence may run beyond its time allotment, for listeners' convenience none will start before the times given 7.0 News; Weather 7.5 Constituencies A - C 7.30 Constituencies D - J 8.0 News; Weather 8.5 Constituencies K - R 8.30 Constituencies S - Y Newsreaders: PETER BARKER, PATRICIA HUGHES Election Special is on Radio 4 from 10.45 am. Election Guide: pages 12-16

9.0 News Weather

9.5 Stereo

This Week's Composer Rossini The Barber of Seville. Act 1, Scene 1 VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES (SOp) LUIGI ALYA (tenor) SESTO BRUSCANTINI (baritone) IAN WALLACE (bass) GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL CHORUS ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by VITTORIO GUI gramophone record

9.50 Stereo BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra leader MAURICE CAVANAGH conducted by ERIC WETHERELL Suppl Overture: Jolly Robbers Bizet Minuetto: Adagietto; Carillon (L'Arlesienne: Suite No 1) Boyce Symphony No 9 Wetherell Airs and Graces

10.35 Stereo Schumann and Brahms CAROLE ROSEN (mezzo-soprano) BRIAN LAMPORT (piano) Schumann Heiss mich nicht reden; Kennst du das Land; Liebeslied; Nachtlied; Singet nicht in Trauerttinen Brahms Ach. wende diesen Blick; Es traumte mir: Ver- sunken; Von ewiger Liebe; Schwermut; Abenddammerung

11.15 Stereo

Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps MUSIC GROUP OF LONDON Bernard Walton (clarinet) Hugh Bean (violin) Eileen Croxford (cello) David Parkhouse (piano) (A BBC Lunchtime Concert given in St John's, Smith Square, London, in June 1970) t

12.10 pm Stereo Midday Concert MARTINO TIRIMO (piano) BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conductor RAYMOND LEPPARD Part 1 Berkeley Nocturne for orches- tra 12.22* Saint-Saens Piano Con- certo No 4, in c minor

12.55 The Shepherd's Calendar On the first of the month ROBIN HOLMES reads from John Clare's poem.

1.0 News Weather

1.5 Stereo

Playbill A preview by JON CURLE of some of the plays and features on Radio 3 and Radio 4 in the week ahead.

1.20 Stereo

Midday Concert Part 2 Mendelssohn Symphony No 3, in A minor (Scottish)

2.0 Stereo

South Bank Summer Music FELICITY PALMER (soprano) JOHN CONSTABLE (piano) JENNIFER WARD-CLARKE (CellO) SCHUTZ CHOIR OF LONDON conductor ROGER NORRINGTON Jannequin La guerre (La bat- aille de Marignan) Costeley Je voy des glissantes eaux Passereau It est bel et bon Bouzlgnac Noe pastores Lully Revenez, amours Rameau Rossignols amoureux; Tristes apprets Nicholas Maw Five Irish Songs (first performance in this coun- try); In somer when the shawes besheyne

2.55* The Economics of Music in America FRANK COOPER, the American pianist and university profes- sor, talks about the crisis fac- ing American music, t

3.15* Stereo South Bank Summer Music Part 2 Faurl Mandoline; C'est l'ex- tase: Les berceaux; Fleur jetee Ravel Trois Chansons: Nicol- ette: Trois beaux oiseaux; Ronde Poulenc La courte paille: Le sommeil; Quelle aventure!; La reine de coeur: Ba, be, bt bo, bu, bé! ; Les anges music- iens: Le carafon: Lune d'Avril Berlioz La menace des francs; Chant sacré; Le ballet des ombres (A public concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 7 August 1973)

4.0 Stereo

String Trios TUNNELL STRING TRIO John Tunnell (violin) Brian Hawkins (viola) Charles Tunnell (cello) Mozart-W. F. Bach Adagio and Fugue in F minor Schubert Trio in a flat (D 581) Webern Trio, Op 20

4.40 Stereo Piano Recital by JOHN GALE Bach Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue (bwv 903) Prokoftev Sonata No 6, in a. Op 82

5.25 Stereo Pied Piper Written and presented by David Munrow Some more foreigners in Paris: Telemann, Mozart: and Pied Piper's guest this week, Henryk Szeryng, for whom Paris is a second home.

Friday Radio3 5.45 pm Homeward Bound medium wave only A two-part sequence of music for the early evening

6.5 News Weather: medium wave only

6.10 Homeward Bound (continued) medium wave only

6.30-7.30 Study on 3 medium wave only 6.30 Working with Words Programme 11: an illustrated anatomy of style 7.0 Wiedersehen in Ansburg (Monday's broadcast) t

7.30 Stereo Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by GYÖRGY LEHEL with ZOLTAN KOCSIS (piano) Mozart Piano Concerto No 18, in B flat (K 456) (Recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio)

8.5 Stereo

The Musical Compliment Three programmes of music by the French clavecinists dedicated to contemporary musicians Played and introduced by CHRISTOPHER BOCWOOD 2: Dagincour, Forqueray and Couperin (Last programme: 8 March)

8.25 Critics' Forum A weekly discussion on cin- ema, theatre, books, broadcast- ing and the visual arts. This week: Richard Mayne (in the chair), talks with RICHARD CORK, KARL MILLER and CLANCY SIGAL. Producer PHILIP FRENCH

9.10 Stereo Schubert's Schwanengesang TOM KRAUSE (baritone) with IRWIN GAGE (piano) Der Atlas; Ihr Bild; Das Fls- chermadchen; Die Stadt; Am Meer; Der Doppelgänger; Die

Taubenpost; Liebesbotschaft; Kriegers Ahnung; Friihlings- sehnsucht; Standchen; Aufent- halt; Herbst (D 945); In der Ferne: Abschied (Recording from the 1973 Salz- burg Festival, made available

by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

10.10 Praise in Strict Pattern In the second of two pro- grammes JOSEPH P. CLANCY, PrO- fessor of English at Marymount Manhattan College, New York, discusses modern Welsh poetry With ALUN LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS and JOHN ORMOND, with examples in Welsh and Eng- lish from his collection of more than 200 translations of poems of this century.

10.55 Stereo Beethoven Quartet in A minor, Op 132 AMADEUS STRING QUARTET (Monday's Lunchtime Concert in St John's, Smith Square, London) t

11.55 News Weather: 12.0 Closedown

Radio3VHF 6.49-7.0 am and 5.45-7.30 pm

Open University

And who faces the nation's problems this morning as the new Prime Minister? Find out as Election Special 74 continues on Radio 4 at 10.45 am. The full overnight results are given on Radio 3 from 7.0 am to 9.0 am, while Radio 2 brings you the latest news in Election Extra with Jimmy Young at 11.5 am plus John Dunn at 2.5 pm

285,330,434m and VHF: see page 35

Time: GTS on the hour 7.0 am- 7.0 pm 10.0

6.20 am News C.22 Farming Today: DAVID ADDIS

6.40 Prayer for the Day REV RICHARD HARRIES

6.45 Today Introduced by John Timpsen and Douglas Cameron Including at 6.50 and 7.50 medium wave only Travel news, What's on, and (6.50 only) Keep Fit; Weather and pro- gramme news at t.55 and 7.55 At 7.0 and 8.0

News and more of Today with Sports- desk at 7.25 and 8.25; Today's Papers at 7.35* and 8.35*; and Thought for the Day 7,45-7.50

8.45 A Morning Story A chance to hear again a story selected from this popular series The Spring Hat by H. E. BATES Read by Thora Hird ' " had in mind something rather in the way of a plain velour." "Velour?" Miss Mank- telow said. I wouldn't think velour was you." ' Producer BARBARA CROWTHER t

9.0 News 9.5 My Kind of Music medium wave only Alistair Cooke plays some of his favourite records and ex- plains why they give him particular pleasure, t

10.0 News medium wave only

10.5 Checkpoint medium wave only The programme that minds the consumer's business and in- vestigates matters that concern you. Presenter Nigel Murphy Producer WALTER WALLICH

10.30 Daily Service NEM p 38; Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC HB 328); Can- ticle 12: Luke 12, vv 13-31 (NEB); Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemer (BBC HB 140)

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10.45 Election Special 74 medium wave only until 12.0 A majority - big or small?

Your verdict at the polls. The fastest and fullest results service. Forecasts and Analysis.

With 200 or more constituen- cies likely still to declare their results on the day after polling, the nation may be in for a 'cliff-hanger' climax determining the size of the next Government's overall majority. The odds are that the winning Party will tick up the magic 318th seat sometime after midday. Whether on your domestic set, a car radio, or a transistor where you work, Radio 4 in- vites you to keep in touch with the latest results with the least possible disturbance to what you have to do. As in the overnight operation. Radio 4's special Election team concentrates on flashes from constituencies of special interest and interviews with leading Party spokesmen, jour- nalists and personalities from both sides of industry. A Radio News, Current Affairs, Outside Broadcasts and Local Radio co-production Executive producer BERNARD TATE News at 11.0 and 12.0 12.55 medium wave only Weather, programme news

1.0 The World at One: News William Hardcastle

1.30 Election Special 74 continued medium wave only 2.0-3.0

vYour verdict .at the polls. The fastest and fullest results service. Forecasts and Analysis.

News at 2.0 and 3.

4.0 News

4.5 Petticoat Line (Wednesday's broadcast) t

4.35 Story Time Tom Jones by HENRY FIELDING Read by FREDERICK TREVES (5)

5.0 PM Reports The news magazine: presented by William Hardcastle with PM's reporting team 5.50 medium wave only Stock Market report 5.55 Weather, programme news

6.0 News 6.15 Brain of Britain 1974 A nationwide general know- ledge contest. Chairman Robert Robinson 3: South of England DAVID BLACKMAN (Berks) scientist STEPHEN GRIFFITHS (Hants) computer programmer ANTHONY ORGEE (Berks) schoolmaster RALPH HOPE (Berks) underwriter Questions set and programme devised by JOHN p. WYNN Producer MARTIN FISHER (Saturday's broadcast) t

6.45 The Archers (Repeated: Monday, 1.30 pm) Dan Archer...EDGAR HARRISON Doris Archer.....GWEN BERRYMAN Jennifer...............ANGELA PIPER Tony Archer ............ COLIN SKIPP Jill Archer ........ PATRICIA GREENE Laura Archer....GWENCA WILSON Tom Forrest...........BOB ARNOLD Woolley....PHILIP GARSTON-JONES Polly Perks ...... HILARY NEWCOMBE Nora McAuley.......... JULIA MARK Martha Woodford.MOLLiE HARRIS Robin Freeman.....PETER KENVYN Jethro Larkin ........ GEORGE HART Trina Muir .............. JUDY CAREY Colin Drury JOHN BADDELEY George Barford.GRAHAM ROBERTS Tozer................PATRICK CONNOR

7.0 News Desk Adam Raphael

7.30 Pick of the Week NANCY WISE makes a personal selection of items from BBC Radio and TV. Introduced by martin muncasteb Producer RICHARD BURWOOD (Repeated: Saturday, 10.38 am)

8.30 Any Questions? Lord Byers, Shirley Williams Nigel Lawson, Russell Braddon Chairman David Jacobs Producer MICHAEL BOWEN from Buckinghamshire (Rptd: Sat, 1.15; Mon. 11.5 am)

9.15 Letter from America by ALISTAIR COOKE (Rptd: Sat, 6.15; Sun, 9.15 am)

9.30 Kaleidoscope Introduced by Paul Vaughan Producer LOUISE PURSLOW 9.59 Weather

10.0 The World Tonight: News Douglas Stuart reporting

11.0 A Book at Bedtime The Well of Loneliness by RADCLYFFE HALL Read by JUDY PARFITT (6)

11.15 Week Ending... DAVID JASON, BILL WALLIS NIGEL REES and BILL MCGUFFIE at the piano take a late night look back over the week's news and illustrate the funny side. Script by JOHN MASON and COLIN BOSTOCK-SMITH Producer SIMON brett

11.30 News preceded by Weather 11.51* Inshore forecast 11.54* Closedown

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Regional News and weather throughout the day: 6.50-6.55 and 7.50-7.55 am: 12.55-1.0 (except London and South East) and 5.50-5.55 pm

English Regions 6.50-8.45 am Morning Sou'West Election Special: Farming re- port from ROSS salmon 8.10-8.45 am This is East Anglia Election Special

For Schools 9.5-S.35 am Halb gewonnen! 16: Bankraub 10.0-10.30 Music Workshop 1 The Wild West 10.45-10.55 A Corner for Music Dreaming and Dancing H.55 11.15 For Middle Years More, More, More. High street, your town (rv) 11.20-11.40 Listening and Writ- Ing. Faces and Places. Poetry 11.40-12.0 Prospect The Mass Communication Media and their Influence: 1 2.0-2.20 pm Let's Join In There's some Sky in this Pie 2.20-2.35 Christian Focus Healing 2.40-3.0 Adventure. C. S. Fores- ter's Brown on Resolution: part 1