A magazine for viewers from India and Pakistan including discussions, review of recent news, music, and stories from the communities.
Produced and presented by Mahendra Kaul
(from Birmingham: repeated on Wednesday at 12.25 pm)

Tom Fleming talks to Anne Ridler and The Rev Reginald Askew about their dialogue interpretations of the Christmas story
with Polly Murch, Michael Gwynn, Wilfred Harrison
and Trevor Crozier's Broken Consort
From the Church of All Hallows, London Wall

Introduced by Henry Fell

David Richardson looks at harvesting systems and the use of beet tops for cattle feed.
(from Birmingham)

Weather for farmers

1.50 Interval

Are school reports helpful, or can they be improved?

Although few people can establish a legal right to a family coat of arms, thousands buy them every year as decorations for their cars and door knockers.

A series of documentary films that travels somewhere different each week in search of the British - and gets involved with their feelings about the place they call home - somewhere on our island.

We are a complex people, with our customs and dialects surprisingly different from those in the village or county next door. Because of the mixture that we are - can anyone know the British?

The River Tamar divides Cornwall from England - it is a placid, beautiful backwater - once important, but now a man who lives there can say, ' The jungle's coming back - sometimes I think we're going to be like the Sleeping Beauty - surrounded by thorns, waiting for...'

(From Manchester)
(Ken Dodd is appearing in "The Ken Dodd Spectacular" at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool)

Starring Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace

Spectacular battle scenes cram the screen with action in this story from the legend of King Arthur. Cornel Wilde as Lancelot falls in love with Guinevere, who is betrothed to Arthur. And so develops a conflict of loyalties - a conflict vigorously handled by Wilde in his other role as the film's director.
(This Week's Films: page 11)

A brand new ice spectacular with 75 international skaters
Starring Reg Park, Linda Davis, Frances Waghorn
with skating specialities by Bernard Ford and Diane Towler, Ted Deeley, Jeff and Franzisca
and featuring the clowning of Charlie Cairoli and Co

Television presentation direct from the Empire Pool, Wembley, by John Vernon
(Televised by arrangement with Tom Arnold Presentations Ltd)

A topical programme which questions the real issues behind the news and some of the assumptions on which people base their lives.

With Andrew Cruickshank
from St Kessog's Parish Church, Callander
with choirs from the Callander and surrounding churches, The Stirling Gaelic Choir,
The Dunblane Male Voice Choir, The McLaren High School Choir and Callander Primary School Choir

The Lord of heav'n confess (St John)
Love divine, all loves excelling (Blaen-Wern)
Praise the Lord who reigns above (Donald Swann)
The duteous day now closeth (Innsbruck)
Christ is made the sure foundation (Tantum Ergo Sacramentum)
Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney)
The ann an Sion feitheamh ort (Old French)
O Jesus, I have promised (Hatherop Castle)
Father, who on man dost shower (Quern Pastores Laudavere)
Lord. we know that thou rejoicest (Arthog)
Almighty Father of all things that be (Chilton Foliat)

by Donald Bull
Created by A.J. Cronin
Starring Andrew Cruickshank as Dr Cameron, Barbara Mullen as Janet, Bill Simpson as Dr Finlay
With Iain Cuthbertson as the Provost

Dr Cameron tells a 63-year-old patient - "You're straining too hard, like an old horse teamed with a young one in the shafts. Why not ease off while the grass is still green?" But easing off is far from easy. And Dr Cameron's own 65th birthday is looming...

('I'll away, now': page 4)
(With Great Pleasure, Andrew Cruickshank's choice of prose and poetry: tonight at 10.10, Radio 4)

by Hugh Whitemore
Presenting Zena Walker, Mary Wimbush
also starring Stanley Meadows, Michael Gwynn, Gerald Sim.

(Colour)

with Kenneth Kendall
and Weather

The first comprehensive television essay on the life and work of one of the greatest poets of this century, T.S. Eliot... a man who spent eight very satisfactory years' in a City bank; whose works range from the revolutionary Waste Land to Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats - a man full of surprises. He received more honours in his lifetime than any other writer, but to most people almost nothing is known of his life and personality; he seems a mystery.
With Mrs Valerie Eliot, Miss Abigail Eliot, Mrs Henry Ware Eliot, Stephen Spender, Robert Lowell, I. A. Richards, Bonamy Dobree, Laurens van der Post, Hope Mirrlees, Eleanor Hinkley, Frank Morley, Jack Eames

The Family Reunion
Poetry spoken by T.S. Eliot and Alec McCowen
Commentary spoken by Donald Houston
A BBC-NET co-production

(Alec McCowen is appearing in "The Philanthropist" at the May Fair Theatre, London; Jim Dale and Elizabeth Adare are National Theatre players)
(How pleasant to meet Mr Eliot: page 4)

A live conversation on the issues of the week with three men and women of distinction in widely differing fields who hold strong views on the topics of today - and tomorrow.