7.5 Public Expenditure: Too Much?
7.30 Industrial Location: Chicago
(UHF only)
A lively new look at words and letters
With Donald Gee, Bob Hoskins
and Gay Hamilton, Martin Shaw
Book (same title), £1.00, from bookshops
from Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Win England's batsmen be able to withstand the pace attack led by Andy Roberts and Michael Holding ? Have the West Indies recovered from their demoralising defeat by Australia last winter? These are just two of the questions that may be answered as the First Test gets under way this morning. Introduced by Peter West
with Rick Jones
Weather Michael Fish
from Trent Bridge, Nottingham
Further coverage
A programme for children under 5
Presenters: Carol Chell, Jon Glover
and the Green Star
The Mole is a very tidy little animal especially when it's time for spring-cleaning.
by Margaret Stuart Barry
with Bernard Holley
Today: The Son of Dracula
with John Noakes, Peter Purves and Lesley Judd
The Blue Peter Book of Odd Odes, 45p, from bookshops
A film cartoon series about the gang of alley-cats, captained by the ever-resourceful Boss Cat.
by ELISABETH BERESFORD
Told by BERNARD CRIBBINS
with Peter Woods Weatherman
Blackpool - big, brash and 100 years old this year. After your local news a live celebration from the seafront.
(Regional details as Tuesday)
by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Starring Ronnie Barker
featuring Brian Wilde, Fulton Mackay
with Richard Beckinsale
and Peter Jeffrey, Philip Madoc
With Mackay away Slade Prison will become a place of rest. 'After all Barrowclough doesn't exactly rule with a rod of iron.'
Book (same title), based on the original series, 60p, from bookshops
With MacKay away, Slade prison will become a place of rest. "After all, Barrowclough doesn't exactly rule with a rod of iron."
Conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin
Also appearing Carol Cleveland, Frank Lester, Bob E. Raymond, Peter Brett and Stenson Falk
with Peter Woods and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weather
by John Lloyd
Great Criminal Mysteries investigated anew by Detective Chief Superintendents Charles Barlow and John Watt
Starring Stratford Johns as Barlow and Frank Windsor as Watt
BBC Birmingham
(Next week Barlow and Watt investigate the crimes of Henri Desire Landru, 'The French Bluebeard')
A weekly programme of the arts in action.
Introduced by Humphrey Burton
This edition:
Nature - Idyll and Nightmare: John Constable
A study of the painter on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth.
When There Are No More Fish in the Sea
An allegory on pollution which combines dance, mime, song and electronics into a new form of television opera.
Winner for Japan of the Prix Italia 1975.
An NHK (Japan) production.
Denis Tuohy and Donald MacCormick talk to interesting people about their lives and experiences and look at the events of the day. John Pitman, David Lomax, Philip Tibenham, David Jessel, David Taylor, Vincent Hanna, Julian Mounter and Michael Delahaye report from home and abroad on the personalities and issues that affect us all.
