BBC Birmingham

A series of ten programmes on dressmaking for beginners. Presented by ANN LADBURY 1: T-shirt
Series editor SHEILA INNES Producer JENNY ROGERS

A series of 15 programmes 5: The Savings Scandal
If you have a deposit account in a bank, building society or post office, today's inflation means you are losing out badly. But protecting savers would involve charging borrowers more, so putting mortgage rates at risk.
Director IAN ROSENBLOOM Producer CHRIS JELLEY

A series of 20 programmes: 5
IRENE THOMAS and ROY HUDD Visit Fircones, a remarkable Birmingham organisation run by retired people for retired people - truly Friends-in-Retirement.
Producer BRIGIT BARRY

A 25-part Italian course: 16
Producer TONY ROBERTS

Introduced by DAVID RICHARDSON Trimming the Profit
PHILIP WRIXON reports on a vegetable trimming business in Yorkshire and examines the reasons for its success.
Producer john KENYON. BBC Birmingham
Weather for farmers

A weekly look at the topics and issues that affect our children. Who Minds?
What are local authorities doing to help childminders and what do they feel about their position? Narrator CLAIRE WOOLFORD
Film editor PETER ORTON Producer SUZANNE DAVIES
Series producer DICK foster

with Harold Williamson Last of six programmes
Once a flourishing river port, Bridgnorth is now a busy market town.
It is also a Mecca for railway enthusiasts and the lovingly preserved steam locomotives of the Severn Valley Railway attract hundreds of visitors every weekend.
Producer TOM CONWAY

Today's outstanding action from Innsbruck on the fourth day of the XII Winter Olympic Games.
Introduced by David Coleman
featuring:
The Ladies' Downhill
Although Anne-Marie Proell, five times world champion, has retired the Austrian girls are still capable of winning the gold medal on the downhill course at Lizum. They will be challenged strongly by the Germans, the French and the Swiss, who in 1972 won more medals in Alpine skiing than any other nation.
Commentator Ron Pickering
Reports by Alan Weeks, David Vine and Tony Gubba on today's other news and events, including ice hockey, speed skating and the combined jump.

Producers ALAN CHIVERS, BRIAN VENNER, FRED VINER, DAVID KENNING, PAUL LANG
Editors ALAN Hart and JONATHAN MARTIN

by Mark Twain
Dramatised in six parts by Richard Harris.

Prince Edward, desperately riding to London with Miles Hendon, is convinced that Tom is a traitor.

Weather MICHAEL FISH

A lively new look at words and letters With DONALD GEE BOB HOSKINS and GAY
HAMILTON MARTIN SHAW , NORMAN ROSSINGTON PATRICIA HAYES
Script BARRY TOOK
Adviser CATHERINE MOORHOUSE Director BARBARA DERKOW
Producer DAVID HARGREAVES
Repeated: Thursday 12.15 pm, and Saturday 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

by Simon Raven
A serial in 13 parts
starring Jean Anderson, Patrick O'Connell, Jennifer Wilson with Richard Easton, Robin Chadwick, Derek Benfield
Hammond Transport is on the threshold of expansion into Europe and France is the chosen starting point. However, David's enthusiasm for the place has more to do with Therese d'Alambert than with the country's business potential.

starring
David Niven , Faye Dunaway Alan Alda , Mickey Rooney
Four American sailors, cast adrift in a lifeboat during a wartime exercise in the Pacific, are washed up on an island somewhere in the Philippines. Here they encounter Commander Finchhaven and his worn relic of a ship, the Curmudgeon. Finchhaven, it transpires, is a very extraordinary seaman indeed.
Director JOHN FRANKENHEIMER Films: page 8

with Richard Whitmore ; Weather

with Esther Rantzen Reporters
KIERAN PRENDIVILLE , GLYN WORSNIP CYRIL FLETCHER with Oddities of the Week
Song of the Week VICTORIA WOOD
Jokes, dramas and problems that happen in real life.
Director PIETER MORPURGO Editor JOHN MORRELL

A series of 11 programmes
6: Northern Ireland: The Options
What alternatives face the people and politicians of the province?
The programme takes a cool look at some constitutional options-among them complete integration with Britain; an independent Northern Ireland; self government within the United Kingdom -with either majority rule or power sharing.
Introduced by ROBERT FISK
Director JUDY HARRIS
Producer BERNARD ADAMS