The Urge to Merge

This week with DONALD GEE and BOB HOSKINS ,
Script BARRY TOOK
Book (same title), £1-00, from bookshops

Welsh comedy series

Weather BARBARA EDWARDS

With DONNY MACLEOD , BOB LANGLEY MARIAN FOSTER and DAVID SEYMOUR including
Stan Boardman 's Yorkshire Folk

(Repeat)

2.2-2.32 English: One Man's History: Orwell's 'Animal Farm'

2.40 Going to Work: What's In It For Me?

3.58 Regional News (exe London)

(Shown on BBC2 at 11.0 am)

with Bob Sherman
The Eighteenth Emergency by BETSY BYARS 4:Garbage Dog

with John Noakes, Peter Purves and Lesley Judd

Don't miss Blue Peter's most important announcement of the year! Find out how you can help the 1975 Christmas Appeal.

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman

News and views in your region tonight. Then the national scene presented by MICHAEL BARRATT , FRANK BOUGH BOB WELLINGS and DILYS MORGAN
Producers RONALD NEIL
GORDON WATTS, HUGH WILLIAMS
Deputy editor STUART WILKINSON Editor JOHN GAU
(Regional details as Monday)

Introduced by Tony Blackburn TOP OF THE POPS ORCHESTRA
Musical director JOHNNY PEARSON PAN'S PEOPLE
Choreography FLICK COLBY Sound LAURIE TAYLOR
Assistant producer STANLEY APPEL Producer ROBIN NASH

Starring Ken Dodd
with the Dougie Squires Dozen
and featuring Chris Emmett, Hilda Fenemore, Michael McClain, Talfryn Thomas and Jo Manning Wilson

Ronnie Hazlehurst and his Orchestra

Introduced by Magnus Magnusson Manchester University provides the venue for this semi-final, the first of four, one of which is reserved for the four best runners-up.
Tonight's semi-finalists and their special subjects are:
STEVEN SCHNEEBAUM , law student United States Constitution JOHN HART. schoolmaster
Rome and Romans: 1st Century BC MARTIN MCCLELLAND , sheet-metal worker
British Military Campaigns: 1700-1815
DAVID BURNS ,
Local Government officer
Life and Reign of Richard III
The winner of this match will go forward into the final.
Director PETER MASSEY Producer BILL WRIGHT

with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods Weather

A film series starring
Tonight: Death Heist
If Pete and Mac had properly sized up the opposition they might never have taken on Kurt Shaw the homicidal jewel thief, but that was before they encountered his man-mountain assistant - not to mention big brother!

Introduced by Derek Jones
We in Britain are still the most urban people in the world - but now we have had a taste of rising prices, food shortages and above all the energy crisis, can we see glimpses of a new way of living? I don't agree with the austeritymongers ... we can live a very warm, pleasant life, at a slower speed. (HUGH SHARMAN ,
Alternative Technologist)
On my allotment I grew nearly a £100 worth of food last year. Even if I didn't save money, the satisfaction alone would make it worthwhile. (JOHN EGDELL , retired Civil Servant)
We could be self-sufficient in food, provided people learn to eat a little differently.
(MICHAEL ALLABY , Ecologist)
Our Industrial Revolution once set a pattern for much of the world; are we now ready for a more gentle revolution, in the other direction?
Written and produced by PETER CRAWFORD BBC Bristol. Preview page 19