... Tusa sets up World Service link to America THE BBC World Service news and current affairs programmes are to be carried in live relays by 300 radio stations across the US. The American Public Radio system, in an agreement announced last Thurs day is taking the World Service via the Atlantic ocean satellite feed and giving it to its affiliated stations. The changes will add considerably to the ...

... MAGGIE PUSHES FOR RADIO AND TELLY SELL-OFF Tories want Right look in run up to the General Election By GERARD WERSON MRS THATCHER is taking control of a working party set up to examine radical proposals for radio and television. According to sources, the Prime Minister has a shopping list of items she wishes to dispose of--including, it is claimed, Channel 4. The working party has been ...

... The Husband, The Wife and The Stranger BBC-2 THE HUSBAND, The Wife and The Stranger should have been an entirely pleasurable occasion. Old stories. Japanese or otherwise, usually survive because they are good stories; Adrian Henry wrote it, which promised much and Adam Faith and Derrick O'Connor are good actors. But in the event, it was a disappoint ment. The play consists of the presenta tion ...

... THAMES TV We'll Think Of Something WITH MORE than three million unemployed it needs a brave or foolhardy company to start a comedy series on the subject of redundancy. Even if it is given an optimistic title. Not a lot of laughs in being out of work one would have thought, and so it proved. However, a sardonic smile could be justified by the paid-for com mercials placed immediately alongside ...

... In Sickness And In Health BBC-1 ALF GARNETT is one of very few classic TV creations for which we all have a great debt to Johnny Speight for the scripts and the original idea and to Warren Mitchell for bringing the char acters convincingly to life. AlPs been around for decades and in this latest series, following the death of Dandy Nichols, he is without long- suffering Else and living on his ...

... Lorna BBC2 FOR CONTRACTUAL reasons, the BBC was unable to repeat the trilogy of Billy plays altogether, and it is a pity for although the audience who may have followed the story of that plagued Belfast family, the Martins, probably realised that the fate of Lorna was unresolved, for those who may not be familiar with them, then this latest play could well have seemed patchy and confusing. ...

... GARETH PRICE, who has been head of programmes at BBC Wales since July 1981, has been appointed controller, BBC Wales from January 1 He replaces Geraint Stanley Jones who has been appointed the BBC's director of public affairs from the new year. Mr Price, who is 46, has worked for the BBC since 1964 when he joined as a radio current affairs producer. In 1966 he moved to television as a features ...

... O'Mara and Co prove hell can be heaven BY MOIRA PETTY IT IS a fundamental of popular culture that the worst moments arc very often the best; where lapses of taste can fuel a new cult. So the star item in the wondrous five hours of TV Hell (BBC2; Monday), with two appear ances, was Triangle, in which Kate O'Mara unzipped her jump suit every time a man in a peaked cap hoved into view. The ...

... Big Break BBC1 THIS is Jim Davidson's first BBC series and follows the controversial end of his Thames television contract and some 15 years of ITV series and specials. But the Charlton comedian, whose favourite comedian is Bernard Manning, has no intention of chang ing his approach. His adult stage shows are blue, his pantos are 'simon pure,' and in between you can expect samples of his say ...

... Screen One is Losing Track BY MOIRA PETTY SCREEN One's Losing Track (BBC Wales for BBC1, Sunday) was more than just a drama of sensibilities which made all the right child-centred noises. The combination of Jim Lee's direction and a screenplay by Roger Eldridge who has an instinc tive touch with dialogue and demonstrated that silence can be as important as speech produced a strongly ...

... Striding ahead ITV Legwork LEGS WERE very much in evidence in this latest variation on the private eye theme-- not only does the leading lady possess a penchant for short skirts but most of the female characters appear at some point to have visited a car wash without their cars and failed to notice that their skirts are no longer in existence. However, once you get past this mysterious ...

... A fair Sher ANN MANN on the first of a superior batch BBC1 Changing Step BBC drama from Scotland, under the auspices of Bill Bryden, opened what promised to be a batch of superior style plays over six weeks, with the first television offering by that multi-talented thespian, Antony Sher. More BBC 2 than BBC 1, by nature of its quirky little plot and mea sured pace, the story concerned a sol ...