A magazine for Asian viewers including discussions, review of recent news, music and stories from the communities.
Produced and presented by SALEEM SHAHED
Director ASHOK RAMPAL. BBC Birmingham (Repeated: Wednesday BBC2, 10.35 am)

- pre-school education now A series of ten programmes 1: The Nursery Idea
WILLEM VAN DER EYKEN , writer and educationist, traces the history of nursery education, examines some of its assumptions and considers its contemporary relevance.
Producer ROGER OWEN
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Family cooking from the regions of France: five programmes 1: Alsace-Lorraine
PAUL JEANROY talks to
ZENA SKINNER and demonstrates potage lorrain poulet saute riesling d l'alsacienne
Director BRIAN DAVIES
Producer TONY ROBERTS
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A series of 15 programmes 13: Is Big Beautiful?
As fewer and fewer companies seem to dominate more and more of our lives, are we right to question whether companies can get too big?
(Repeated: Tuesday BBC2, 2.30 pm)

Pope Paul VI gives his Easter Blessing to the City and the World.
FR PATRICK MCENROE describes the scene in St Peter's Square, Rome
Presented by the ITALIAN TV service

Five personal views
2: The Future for Milburn by IAN BREACH
This village of 200 inhabitants on the Cumbrian Fells is, for the theorists, an ideal-size community.
Producer MICHAEL GARROD

A weekly look at the topics and issues that affect our children and our job as parents.
Paul Barnes and Claire Woolford turn Parents and Children on its head this week by asking children to talk about their parents. With a class at the Moonshine Community Arts Workshop as a starting point, teenagers discuss parents' attitudes towards their children's sexuality and how much say they should have in choosing a career.

featuring International Show Jumping from the All England Club, Hickstead
The Embassy Grand Prix
Riders from nine countries, at Hickstead for tomorrow's Nations Cup, compete in the top individual event of the Easter Meeting worth more than f3,500 in prize money. Commentators DORIAN WILLIAMS RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
Coca-Cola International Swimming Twenty-one countries, including the ussr, Australia, and East Germany, compete in the last major world swimming event before the Olympics, which gives many of the swimmers a last chance to do the necessary qualifying times.
BRIAN BRiNKLEY , who has already qualified for four events in Montreal, heads what will be one of the strongest British teams ever. Commentators ALAN WEEKS HAMILTON BLAND
Television presentation: Show Jumping FRED VINER , JOHN SHREWSBURY
Swimming JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

Weather KEITH BEST

with Tom Courtenay and Michael Hordern

A production, using the latest television techniques, of the medieval Mystery Cycle first performed in Chester in the 14th century.

(Feature p4)

A serial in 13 parts starring Jean Anderson
Patrick O'Connell , Jennifer Wilson with Richard Easton
Robin Chad wick , Derek Benfield
Two important occasions are at hand. The first is Mary's (Jean Anderson, left) birthday; the second is a Special General Meeting of the Hammond share-holders whose support for the merger with van der Merwe Paul Merroney is anxious to obtain.
13: Birthday by RAY JENKINS
Created by GERARD GUISTER and N. J. CRISP Script editor DOUGLAS WATKINSON Designer IAN ASHURST
Executive producer KEN RIDDINGTON vBILL SELLARS
Director CHRISTOPHER BAKER

Starring Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Barbara Werle, Brian Keith, Rossano Brazzi, Sal Mineo

A team of sunken-treasure seekers, 30 convicts, two balloonists, and a beautiful widow in search of her long-lost son are aboard the SS Batavia Queen bound for Krakatoa, an island east of Java.
Commanded by Captain Chris Hanson, the Batavia Queen sails into a series of adventures and the biggest natural disaster ever recorded - the eruption of Krakatoa where 40,000 people lost their lives.
Films: page 7

with Richard Baker Weather

The foundation of the USA 200 years ago was a landmark in Indian history. Ten films show how different tribes cope with the problems of life in North America today. 2: Civilised Tribes
Seminoles and Choetaws, remnants of a once-powerful south-eastern group, start on the slow climb back to prosperity.
Production assistant NICK GOSLING Producer BRENDA HORSFIELD