Produced and presented by MAHENDRA KAUL
Director ASHOK RAMPAL. BBC Birmingham (Repeated: Wednesday BBC2 10.35 am)
A series of ten programmes
9: Disclosure of Information
What information about the firm or industry does the union need?
Introduced by PAT TURNER , GMWU, With STUART HOLLAND , RICHARD CABORN , AUEW, and members of a shop stewards' committee from the steel industry.
Executive producer TONY MATTHEWS Director PAUL KRIWACZEK Producer JOHN TWITCHIN
A 24-part French course: 12
Radio programmes: Wed 7.0 pm (R3 medium wave), Sun 3.0 pm (R4 VHF)
A series of 15 programmes 2: Money's the Problem
Have you an overdraft or a credit card? Do you buy on the HP? Many economists blame these for the way prices are rising.
Director IAN ROSENBLOOM Producer CHRIS JELLEY
(Repeated: Tuesday 2.30 pm, BBC2)
from Clarence Park Baptist Church, Weston-super-Mare.
A service to mark the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
Conducted by the Minister, REV CHARLES BECKET
Soloist LEONARD PEARCEY
Organist CECIL PATT
Choirmaster FLORENCE MESSER Hymns:
Our Father God. Thy name we praise.
Who took fish and bread, hungry people fed?
Here in Christ we gather. Forward! be our watchword.
Television presentation by JOHN DOBSON
A series of 20 programmes:2
Join ROY HUDD and IRENE THOMAS for the new season of programmes; and this week - the start of the New Interests Quiz!
Director BRYN BROOKS Producer BRIGIT BARRY
(Repeated: Thursday 3.30 pm)
A 25-part Italian course: 13 Introduced by MARISA DILLON-WESTON
Producer TONY Roberts
Book (same title), £1.00. records 1 and 2. £1.20 each, or cassettes 1 and 2, 12.70 each, from bookshops
A series of five programmes 2: Jobs for the Girls
Why do only 25 per cent of girls do any kind of job training after school? Is it conditioning, lack of opportunity, or both?
Producer SUZANNE DAVIES
Series producer JOHN TWITCHIN
Introduced by PHILIP WRIXON
Discipline-or Do Your Own Thing JOHN CHERRINGTON looks into the business of collective selling of fruit and vegetables.
Producer JOHN KENYON. BBC Btrminohom
Weather for farmers
Presented by PAUL BARNES and CLAIRE WOOLFORD Immunisation
Thanks to a worldwide immunisation programme, smallpox may soon be the first extinct disease. ANN HEYNO reports.
Film editor PETER ORTON Producer SUZANNE DAVIES
Series producer DICK FOSTER
with Harold Williamson Third in a series of six programmes
Generations of comedians have joked about Wigan Pier kidding audiences that the industrial town was really a seaside resort.
But what was the start of it? Has Wigan got a pier? What does Wigan think of the joke?
HAROLD WILLIAMSON went in search of Wigan Pier and got some surprising answers-Wigan has its own jokers-and met some giants who play rugby, miners who remember women working at the pit and people who sing their own brand of songs.
Producer TOM CONWAY
Barney's Hungry Cousin The Impossible Possum
from the Empire Pool, Wembley
Spectacle, colour and enchantment in scenes from this well-loved musical pantomime starring and with Directed and produced by GERALD PALMER Choreography by REG PARK
Decor and costumes by ANTHONY HOLLAND Book and lyrics by STANLEY LLOYD
Dialogue direction by RAYMOND JAMES Musical direction by LESLIE KERRIGAN Commentator ALAN WEEKS
Television presentation by IAN SMITH
(by arrangement with Tom Arnold Presentations Ltd)
By Mark Twain
Dramatised in six parts by Richard Harris
To avoid being arrested for murder, Canty has left London and taken Edward with him. With King Henry on his deathbed, Tom has become a tool in the hands of the scheming, power-hungry nobles.
The third of ten programmes
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore
A long weekend abroad or a short holiday nearer home can provide a welcome change - particularly in the off-peak seasons.
Ann Clwyd visits Amsterdam and Cliff Michelmore weekends at a country inn in Derbyshire.
In the studio Joan Bakewell and John Carter.
Weather KEITH BEST
A lively new look at words and letters With DONALD GEE
BOB HOSKINS and ROSEMARY LEACH
MARTIN SHAW
Script BARRY TOOK
Adviser CATHERINE MOORHOUSE Director BARBARA DERKOW
Producer DAVID HARGREAVES
Repeated: Thurs 12.15 pm. Sat 10.25 am Adults wanting help with reading can ring [number removed]or send their name. address and telephone number to: On the Move, [[address removed]].
Book (same title), 11.00, from bookshops
Was it Such a Holy Year?
Peter Hebblethwaite looks back on a year when religion captured the headlines with an exorcism tragedy, an appeal from the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the attempt of old-time Catholics to revive the Latin mass. Are the Church's experiments with ecstasy or radical politics any more than attempts to stop a slide into irrelevance?
Editor PETER ARMSTRONG
from Christ Church, Swindon at the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, with church choirs from Swindon's three parishes of ecumenical experiment and SWINDON MALE VOICE CHOIR
SWINDON ORPHEUS CHOIR
LAINESMEAD JUNIOR SCHOOL CHOIR Conductor ARTHUR WALTERS Organist GORDON CRABBE
Introduced by GEOFFREY WHEELER
Hymns:
God is love (Hyfrydol)
Christ is the world's light (Christe Sanctorum)
The church's one foundation (Aurelia)
In Christ there is no east or west (St Stephen)
Christ our King (Sunderland)
Eternal ruler of the ceaseless round (Song 1)
Christ for the world we sing (Moscow) Christ is the King (Vulpius) Come, risen Lord (St Agnes)
All who worship God in Jesus (Vision) At the name of Jesus (.Evelyns) Prayer and Blessing by CANON DEREK PALMER
Producer JOHN BOBSON
Series producer RAYMOND SHORT
A romantic serial in 16 parts based on the novels by WINSTON GRAHAM
Part 16 by JACK RUSSELL
Poldark against Warleggan: Warleggan against Poldark - the feud must be resolved. So must the strained relationship between Ross and Demeiza. In this last episode both fuse into a blazing climax as Ross goes to Trenwith to confront George for the last time.
Script editor SIMON MASTERS Theme music composed by KENYON EMRYS-ROBERTS
Designer Oliver BAYLDON Producer MORRIS BARRY Director PAUL ANNETT
Starring Rod Taylor, Maggie Smith, Julie Christie, Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave, Flora Robson
In the Dublin of 1911, Johnny Cassidy, a high-spirited idealist, does his best to support his family and continue his writing activities on the side.
Films: page 13
with Richard Baker Weather
with Esther Rantzen Reporters
KIERAN PRENDIVILLE , GLYN WORSNIP CYRIL FLETCHER with Oddities of the Week Song of the Week
THE FIVEPENNY PIECE
A collection of the jokes, dramas and problems that happen in real life.
Editor JOHN MORRELL
A series of 11 programmes looking at background issues in British politics.
3: The Don't Know Democracy
A recent Hansard Society pilot survey in schools suggested that only 22% of 15-year-olds know the name of the Foreign Secretary
42% believe that the IRA is a Protestant organisation-
People in Britain, as in most democracies, are fairly ignorant about politics. Now the Politics Association is trying to increase the amount of political education in schools. But can children be taught politics effectively and without bias?
ROBERT FISK , of The Times, talks to BERNARD CRICK , Professor of Politic", at Birkbeck College, London.
Production assistant JUDY HARRIS Producer BERNARD ADAMS
Boofc: Why is Britain Becoming Harder to Govern?, 75p, from bookshops
