TV and Radio

SUNDAY
Everyman: 'the Miracle WorkOlk of Ladeira (BBC'. 10.30 pm). The title role of this programme is taken by a woman called Maria da Conceicao, a Portuguese peasant who claims to talk with Our Lady and visit heaven. She has been excommunicated, but says that the little white discs that she balances on her tongue when in trance are mystic communion. The local bishop says they are bits of paper. Whether she is mad or bad, her inass gatherings are very nasty, with ugly scenes of hysteria. She has a Greek bishop in tow and a Canadian Jesuit. If you are interested in this sort of aberration, read Ronald Knox's book. Enthusiasm. The events at
Saint-Medard cemetery in the 1730s sound just like those filmed by the Everyman crew.
Not only Catholics are prey to this sort of thing,. by the way — Quakers, Shakers and Waldensians went in for it once. TUESDAY Whisky Galore (BBC2, 7.05 pm). This week's Ealing comedy ventures beyond Lavender Hill and Pimlico to tell Compton Mackenzie's story (or fantasy) of Hebridean life. The book is set in 1943 and the film came out in 1948. James Robertson Justice and Gordon Jackson star. Mackenzie's original brings out the value of Catholicism in the bleak island community more strongly, but the lure of whisky in the face of wartime bureaucracy is still a good basis for comedy. Question Time (BBC I , 10.50pm). Robin Day chairs this new series. A studio audience asks a panel questions. The panel this week is Archbishop Worlock of Liverpool, Michael Foot, Edna O'Brien and Teddy Taylor, who lost his seat in the last election. I cannot see the difference between this and Any Questions. The panel may be excellent, but we need good questions. Why not get Robin Day to ask them'?
WEDNESDAY
Liberal Party Assembly (BBC2, 9.25-11.00 am,. 11.25-12.30, 2.004.50 pm). Just how good Robin Day is may be seen from his live coverage. The political world is waking up after its summer hibernation. David Dimbleby and Robert McKenzie (deprived of Swingometer) join Mr Day in a replay of the election show to look at what the Liberals are up to.
THURSDAY
Shirley Williams in Conversation with Lord Scanlon (BBC I, 10.20 pm). Another sign of the autumn awakening is this new series of interviews by Shirley Williams. In future weeks she will talk to Edward Heath and James Callaghan.
Mrs Williams worked with Hugh Scanlon in drawing up the social contract in 1975 and 1976. It will be interesting to see her ask Lord Scanlon why a Marxist should support the Callaghan regime's incomes policy and then accept a peerage.