Weatherman KEITH BEST
with DONNY MACLEOD , MARIAN FOSTER and DAVID SEYMOUR , including Craftsman in Action and Dig This - gardening for pleasure and profit with Peter Seabrook
with Gerald Durrell
Today: Menagerie Manor
Script MICHAEL BARTLETT Director JEREMY SWAN
Producer ANGELA BEECHING
Executive producer ANNA HOME
with Mr Acker Bilk and his Paramount Jazz Band Atarah Ben-Tovim
The Buglers of the 2nd Bn, Royal Green Jackets and The Band of the Henry Compton School, Fulham
In the first programme of a new series Roy, who can play any musical instrument from the bag-pipes to the kitchen sink, meets all kinds of music-makers - and invites them to play their kind of music.
Music adviser JOHNNY PEARSON Designer IAN ASHURST Producer ALAN RUSSELL
A series of six programmes introduced by Jeffery Boswall
1: Across the Great Salt Desert
The expedition embarks on a six months' journey from the lowest point in Ethiopia to the top of the empire's highest mountain.
The starting point is at the bottom of the Danakil depression, 300ft below sea level. One of the hottest and most forbidding places on earth, Danakil offers rock gardens of flowering minerals, salt lakes, and the most active volcano in eastern Africa. Prize animal here is the rare wild ass, one of the shyest creatures in the world.
Cameraman DOUGLAS FISHER
Producer JEFFERY BOSW ALL (Bristol)
with Richard Baker ; Weatherman
from your region tonight, including local weather and at 6.45* Sportswide
From Aintree Jimmy Hill previews two major sporting occasions: Racing -the 134th running of the Grand National, and Football - the FA Cup semi-finals.
(Regional details as Wednesday)
The first in a season of films featuring one of Hollywood's greatest Western stars Randolph Scott with Dorothy Malone and Peggy Castle
Larry Madden returns to Little River and finds himself in the middle of a land war.
This Week's Films: page 19
with Richard Baker and Peter Woods and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weather
Paul Daneman , Tom Adams in A Nice Place to Live by. P.J. HAMMOND
Princeroyal village may be a nice place to live but Charlie Pitman died there, only a stone's throw from the neighbouring atomic research station. He was a popular fellow. He may also have been a spy....
Series devised by ROBERT BARR
Script editor SIMON MASTERS . Designer MYLES LANG. Producer MORRIS BARRY Director DAVID ASKEY
A film starring Louis Jourdan and Anne Baxter
Psychiatrist David Sorell doesn'believe in witchcraft - even when young Loey Wiley is brought to him suffering from strange unnatural dreams. But when the murder of Loey's sister is followed by another mysterious death, Sorell begins to believe that a pattern of supernatural evil is emerging.
Screenplay by ROBERT PRESNELL JR Producer DAVID LEVINSON Director ROBERT DAY
