Produced and presented by Saleem Shahed.
(Repeated: Wednesday BBC2, 10.35 am)
(BBC Birmingham)
Pre-school education now. A series of ten programmes
Dr Marion Blank, who has developed a 'one to one' tutorial mode of teaching, explains why the method is valuable. Presenter Alan Little
A two-part programme as the first in a series of repeats.
11.0 New Art in Birmingham Cathedral
A modern embroidery hanging discussed by its creator and by the Provost of the Cathedral.
by Arthur Scholey and Donald Swann
An ancient story re-told to music in the Church of the Ascension, Wembley, and in the ruins of Whitby Abbey with Donald Swann, his Singers and Children of Brent and of Whitby.
Both Jason and Eloise have now started 'big' school. As well as looking at the important events of their fifth year, in this film we look back at some of the major influences in the past four years.
Book, The First Five Years, £1.80, from bookshops
Introduced by David Richardson
Making bad silage is easy, but it's not difficult to do the job well.
BBC Birmingham
Weather for farmers
Judith Davis and Paul Barnes visit Park School, Aylesbury.
Starring Richard Greene, Luke Halpin, Sheila Wells
Determined to prove the existence of a group of unknown islands, anthropologist Josh MacRae sets perilous sail across the Pacific only to be shipwrecked at the end of his search.
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Seven samples of Yugoslav life in seven different places.
Ranko Vujacic's family come from the forbidding mountains of Montenegro, and the family is proud of its contribution to the republic's ferocious resistance to invaders. But there is now a growing gap between Ranko's way of life in the capital of Titograd, and that of his Uncle Savo in the hills.
BBC Bristol
in Half Pint Palamino and Sleepy Time Squirrel
[Starring] Leif Erickson as Big John Cannon, Cameron Mitchell as Buck Cannon, Mark Slade as Blue, Linda Cristal as Victoria, Henry Darrow as Manolito
with guest star, Rodolfo Agosta
(First shown on BBC2)
A series of six programmes with Valerie Singleton, who visits some great houses where famous people lived and worked.
With Michael Hordern as the voice of Charles Darwin
'The house is ugly, neither new nor old, but it has a capital study.' In this study Charles Darwin was to make one of the most shattering discoveries since the beginning of mankind. It was also a place where one of his ten children might burst in at any moment in search of sticking plaster or string.
Weather Jack Scott
Words and letters with Donald Gee, Bob Hoskins and Norman Rossington, Rosemary Leach, Martin Shaw, Gay Hamilton, Patricia Hayes
(Repeat: Thurs 1.50 pm, Sat 10.25am)
Adults wanting help with reading can ring [number removed] or send their name. address and telephone number to: On the Move, [address removed]
Live from the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
England begin their campaign to reach the final stages of the 1978 World Cup in Argentina. Exclusive coverage of the whole of this evening's match in qualifying Group Two which also includes Italy and Luxembourg.
England have failed to qualify in the last two major competitions - the 1974 World Cup and the current European Championship. They cannot afford to slip up tonight against Finland's amateurs, who lost five of their six matches in their European group-though they did draw 0-0 with Italy in Rome and recently beat Switzerland 1-0 in Helsinki.
Introduced by Jimmy Hill, with comment from Bobby Charlton
by Martin Worth
A series in ten parts starring Peter Gilmore
with Jessica Benton, Howard Lang, Brian Rawlinson, Ken Hutchinson
'It'll take us at least three hours to get there. And with this wind turning into a gale... You'll be there just in time to pick up the pieces.'
Starring Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren
with Alan Badel, Kieron Moore
Gregory Peck plays an American professor at Oxford whose knowledge of hieroglyphics gets him mixed up with two gangs of Arab spies. Sophia Loren plays a seductive espionage agent - but for whom? Their paths soon cross and double-cross in this glossy and exciting comedy thriller by the man who made Charade.
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with Richard Baker; Weather
The Editors of newspapers, television and radio - the men and women whose editorial decisions determine how we are informed - meet with George Scott who questions their privilege and power and challenges their values, motives and methods. The second of 13 programmes.
Ten films show how different tribes cope with the problems of life in North America today.
Contradictory policies towards Indians led to their virtual extinction in the 19th century. But they have re-emerged as a political force in the 20th.
