9.38 Countdown: As Long as a Piece of String

10.0 Merry-go-Round: A Visitor to Lyme

10.25-10.45 South America: Land: 2
(Colour)

11.5 A Year's Journey: Stone from the Hills

11.30 New Horizons: China: Three Chinese Paintings

12.0 Office: 6: Management Information
(Book, £1.00: see page 58)

Topical feature

The programme with the informal air introduced by Bob Langley. A chance to meet the people and personalities who drop in to talk about ideas, events and interests. Plus the Weatherman Keith Best

(Colour)

In the first of thirteen programmes, David Blackmore looks at some of the problems and pleasures of looking after a donkey.

(First shown on BBC2)
(Colour)

2.5 Words and Pictures: Sam on Boffs' Island: Part 15
(Colour)

2.25 Going to Work: Apprenticeship

2.50 Maths Today: Year 2: Around the Field

3.13 Look Out: Peoplesville

3.35 Twentieth-Century Focus: Cinema: End of the Dream?
The great picture palaces are dead. What new form will cinema take in the 1980s?
Commentary by Michael Rodd

(Colour)

by Ann Lawrence
with Anne Stallybrass

When Tom is given two mysterious gifts by an Elf-Woman his father warns him that: "Every gift from the Good Folk is a tricky matter, two-handed and not to be taken lightly." Tom quickly finds out how true this is...

("Wizards are a Nuisance", containing five stories told recently in Jackanory. now available in paperback, price 25p: see page 58)
(Colour)

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

by Elisabeth Beresford
Told by Bernard Cribbins

with Kenneth Kendall
Weather

(Colour)

bringing you news and views in your region tonight
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings

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 Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods; Weather

written and performed by John Burrows and John Harding

Was this the finest hour? Sifting the truth and fiction about the Battle of Britain, Burrows and Harding give their own account of how the nation sees its heroes - and itself.

(Radio Times People: page 5)
(Colour)

The first of a pair of films in a new occasional series in which one man and his world are closely observed for one day.

Campbell Adamson is at the head of a body which speaks for three-quarters of industry and commerce. The CBI (the 'bosses' union' it has been called) is at the very core of the central issue of today - the problem of wage-price inflation. Campbell Adam son's remedy for the malaise is a voluntary concordat between Government, his CBI, and Unions. This film was shot on a day in late autumn - just before 'The Freeze' - a typically long and arduous day. For time must be found for conferences with his aides on the important speech he is to make that evening.

(Wednesday: 10.15 BBC1, One Day in the Life of Jack Jones, General Secretary of the TGWU)

At the Locarno Ballroom, Portsmouth, with Terry Wogan and Miss UK, Jenny McAdam
Compere Martin Muncaster
and The Mike Allen Orchestra

Organised by Mecca Promotions

(Colour)

(except London): Closedown