A magazine for viewers from India and Pakistan
Presented and produced by Mahendra Kaul
(From BBC Midlands: repeated on Wednesday 6 May at 12.25 pm)

An invitation to speak French
with Max Bellancourt, Jacques Faber, Georges Lambert, Andre Maranne, Georges Montant, Pamela Stirling and Jerome Tiberghien

A beginners' course in German
Introduced by Leslie Banks

With Dorothea Neukirchen, Werner Umberg, Tom Kempinski, Martina Mayne, George Mikell, Suzanne Roquette

from Trinity Presbyterian Church, Bangor, Co Down
Conducted by the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, The Rt Rev John Carson, DD
Hymns (from RCH):
Christ is made the sure foundation (207)
The Head that once was crowned with thorns (131)
Put thou thy trust in God (547)
Metrical Psalm 46, second version: God is our refuge and our strength, vv 1. 3, 4 Anthem: Hear, Lord, make haste to help us (Tchaikovsky)
Readings: Psalm 85; Revelations 1

David Vine introduces 10 programmes for people who want to improve their swimming
With Derek Stibbs of the ASA
From the Loughborough College of Education

Between 1850 and 1900 Germany became a world industrial power. As production rose so did the socialist vote but the revolution, feared by Bismarck, never came. Why?
Introduced by John Tidmarsh

What will the change from £ s d to np do to prices and profits in the retail trade?
Introduced by Harold Webb

David Richardson visits the Paris Salon, where nearly 700,000 visitors come to two shows featuring the best of European agriculture and agricultural machinery, and including for the first time a representation from Great Britain.
(from Birmingham)

Weather for farmers
(Colour)

Ideas, opportunities and developments for everybody interested - including parents, teachers, and students.

direct from Windsor Castle
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother inspects today's annual parade and takes the salute at the march-past in the quadrangle. All those marching today have one distinction in common: that of the highest proficiency badge in Scouting - the Queen's Scout Award.
Michael Barratt describes the scene, talks to scouts in the parade, and to the Chief Scout, Sir Charles MacLean, BT, KT, KBE

Conversation - personalities - ideas - controversies - questions with Robin Day

Starring Ronald Colman, Loretta Young

Ronald Colman plays the great 18th-century British hero who, like Lawrence of Arabia, regarded himself as a man of destiny.

Customers and connoisseurs explore the world of antiques with Max Robertson
Customers Rita Webb, Derek Nimmo
(from Bristol)
(Derek Nimmo is appearing in 'Charlie Girl' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Cliff Morgan meets young people with unusual and exciting ways of spending their leisure time.

Nicholas Sack, the 13-year-old managing director, explains the operation of his airline, his bus company and his Greenwich-based holiday and travel agency. Roderick Barron, aged 14, of St Andrews, plays the Scottish pipes among the ruins of the castle near his home. Julian Joseph, aged 13, lives in Sheffield; his hobbies are entomology and conchology.

A new wildlife film series.

A film that won awards in London, Montreal and Moscow. It depicts a year in the life of a pair of kingfishers on the Hampshire Test. The filming of the birds under water and inside their nest burrow is unique.
The kingfisher is the most brightly-coloured bird in Britain. It is found in almost every county in our kingdom, and is common on suitable water; and yet it was almost unknown until this film brought home the fascinating facets of its private life.
Written and produced by Jeffery Boswall.
(from Bristol)

with ventriloquist Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop and Charley Horse

In the third programme on the intuitive side of man's nature Clifford Hanley looks at techniques of Prayer and Meditation with George Harrison of the Beatles, Pir Vilayat, Head of a Sufi Order, and Archbishop Anthony Bloom

from the Church of the Resurrection, Belfast
Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler
Sung and played by pupils of Sullivan Upper School, Holywood and students of Queen's University, Belfast; Sharon Collen, The Ivan Black Group

I'm singing for my Lord; Kum ba yah; I've got some singing to do; All my trials; When I needed a neighbour; Some Career; O brother man; Tomorrow is a highway; Jesus Christ was a man; Fisherman Peter; Thank you; O when the saints go marching in

by Bill Strutton
Created by Francis Durbridge
Starring Francis Matthews as Paul
with Ros Drinkwater as Steve, George Sewell as Sammy Carson

Gallery raids and art thefts are becoming increasingly commonplace - often the only losers appear to be the insurance companies. Paul finds that even they can limit their liability to pay by investing in crime...

Starring Dirk Bogarde
with Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff, Gerard Oury

A British film with a difference. Dirk Bogarde as a lieutenant in the Special Boat Service leads a small raiding force to the island of Rhodes. Mission: destroy two enemy airfields. Set in World War II, this exciting production benefits from the touch of director Lewis Milestone who made the now legendary All Quiet on the Western Front back in 1930, and a series of World War II films. Dirk Bogarde has done his patriotic bit in movies like Ill Met by Moonlight, HMS Defiant and The Password is Courage.
(Dirk Bogarde in Rome: Line-Up, BBC2 at 11.20 pm)

With John Edmunds and Weather

On the centenary of Lenin's birth this film looks at Leningrad in terms of the creative artists who have made their home in one of the most beautiful cities in Europe: Chaliapin and Pavlova; Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, and Shostakovich; Gogol, Pushkin, and Mayakovsky. It also meets some of the city's young artists: a ballet dancer, a pianist, a poet, an acrobat troupe in the circus, a film actress, a sculptor.
Despite the tensions of different political systems, it is still possible to admire the constant beauty of Leningrad and the continuing tradition of her artists.
Poem of Mayakovsky read by Ian McKellen.
Narrator: Denis Pitts.

(Produced with the co-operation of the Novosti Press Agency, and presented by the BBC and Bavarian Television)
(Imagine Venice under snow: page 12)
(Colour)

with her guests The Hollies and Jimmy Page