Topical feature

Robert Langley welcomes the guests, personalities, and people who just happen to drop in. Plus a daily chat with the Weatherman Bert Foord

(Colour)

Introduced by Peter West and Nick Henderson

Patrick Moore looks forward to a year of spectacular astronomical events: the launching of the Sky-lab earth-orbiting laboratory in May; the longest eclipse of the century in June; the first dual-planet probe to Venus and Mercury in October; and the Copernicus quincentenary celebrations.

Four days in the year of the Fernie Hunt
'...no sport is worth the name of it without a spice of danger in it. And I think that is the reason why hunting is becoming ever more popular.'
Col Tony Murray-Smith, Joint Master of the Femie, and Bruce Durno, Huntsman, are our guides to the hunt, the hounds and the south Leicestershire country.

(To Catch a Fox: Wed, 9.25 pm BBC2)

What is your idea of a Stone Age man? Someone nasty, brutish and short perhaps?
Professor Alexander Thorn believes this is doing our early ancestors less than justice.
Written and narrated by Magnus Magnusson

(First shown on BBC2)
(Colour)

(Colour)

A programme for children under 5

by Norman Hunter
with Russell Hunter
Today: Wizards are a Nuisance

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

with Richard Baker; Weather

with Look North, South Today, Look East, Midlands Today, Points West and Spotlight South West bringing you news and views in your region tonight
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings

Television's most popular space series returns with some earlier adventures of the Star Ship Enterprise on its mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and civilisations, to go boldly where no man has gone before.
This week: Return to Tomorrow

TV's top reporters close in on the most interesting topics of the day.
Alastair Burnet, Michael Charlton, Alan Hart, Francis Hope, Richard Kershaw, Julian Pettifer, Alan Watson

(Colour)

with Robert Dougall and Richard Whitmore; Weather

by Peter Terson

Three miners on a boat - pilgrimage to Stratford-on-Avon.
with Janet Suzman and Richard Johnson, members of the Royal Shakespeare Company
(from Birmingham)
(Alan David is a member of the Victoria Theatre Company, Stoke on Trent)

at the Lyceum Ballroom with Terry Wogan and Miss United Kingdom, Jenny McAdam
Compere Barri Haynes and The Andy Ross Orchestra
Organised by Mecca Promotions

A series of five programmes

What went into the making of this picture? Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed discuss the film and the industry.
(British films - the corpse that won't lie down: pages 8-9)