Another look at the Tomorrow's World special programme which tells the story of 10 years of manned space flight.
Songs of the people
2.25 The Kineton Handicap Steeple Chase: a plate of £650 (over two miles and a few yards)
2.55 The Tony Teacher Handicap Steeple Chase: a plate of £650 (over three miles, one furlong and a few yards)
3.25 The Bristol Long Distance Novices' Hurdle Race, Division 2: a plate of £650 (over three miles and a few yards)
(Colour)
by Ann Stone
Adapted, directed by Elizabeth Harden
With John Bird
(Next week: Tucker's Countryside, with Al Mancini)
Michael Aspel introduces your television requests. This week's guest: Stratford Johns
Send your letters to Ask Aspel, [address removed]
Written and told by Eric Thompson.
People, places and events in the news around town
Special edition from California
James Burke visits California, the state that gave us Hollywood and hippies, waterbeds and hotrods the state where everyone's on the move, where some people change their homes and marriage partners almost as often as they change their cars.
James Burke reports on: helping the blind to see-with their skin; why weird beasts of a Pacific island talk with a Californian accent; how Los Angeles sheriffs get an instant crime check on suspects; artificial clouds-cure for an agricultural headache and new art form.
(The future, California-style: page 3)
Written by Barry Cryer and Graham Chapman
Starring Ronnie Corbett
with Rosemary Leach as Laura, Richard O'Sullivan as Keith, Linda Hayden as Sally, Donald Hewlett as Col. Sutcliffe, Patricia Hamilton as Miss Blyton
Presented by Robert Dougall with the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weather
by David Weir
starring Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass
and Edward Chapman, Brian Rawlinson, Howard Lang, Jessica Benton, Mary Webster, James Warwick
A ship James has chartered from Callon is lost at sea. Callon sees his chance to bankrupt the Onedin Line and takes it.
(Colour)
with Michael Barratt
The chance to put your own views on some of the week's television programmes to the people who made them.
Presented by David Dimbleby with the latest news in pictures
In the presence of HRH Princess Anne, a concert for the Festival of St Cecilia
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Louis Fremaux
with the Kneller Hall Trumpeters
Heather Harper (soprano), John Lill (piano)
Berlioz Overture: Le Corsaire
Beethoven Concert Aria: Ah! perfido
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini
Introduced by Antony Hopkins
(all except London and Wales)
Closedown
