10 January 1982

Sunday 10 January

1982-01-10

TV

 * BBC One
 * 7.15 pm King's Royal A ten-part serial from the novel by John Quigley. Episode 1 starring Louie Ramsay, Eric Deacon Anne Kristen , Sally Osborn John Vine , Heather Moray. Fergus King's is a rags-to-nches success story: orphaned as a young boy, he has risen to an exalted position in Glasgow society. But now suddenly, his respectability is being threatened from within his own family.
 * 9.40 pm Omnibus with Barry Norman. The weekly magazine programme of the arts and entertainment. La Ronde: When first performed in Vienna in 1921, it started a riot. Playwright Arthur Schnitzler himself banned all further performances. Now it's out of copyright and everybody, even the BBC, seems to be doing it. John Barton. Caspar Wrede and Susan Fleetwood talk about the problems of putting on a classic that nobody has seen.

scans GraemeWood