A programme of music and dance with a review of recent news, featuring Lakshmi Shankar, K.K. Khanna, Imart Khan, Dilara Hasham and Kismore Kumar
Produced and presented by Mahendra Kaul
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Wednesday BBC2, 10.35 am)

by Roger Hargreaves.
Narrated by Arthur Lowe.

Attention younger viewers:
Suddenly there it was, a gang-shed studio-type place where anything can happen and often does. Then before you could say Mackintosh Mouse, there was J.D., Boff, Teena and Dodo calling themselves The Sunday Gang and doing the most extraordinary things. Bob Wilson - the famous goalkeeper - is the guest on the first show. 'It's a smashing world God's given us,' they said, 'let's explore...'

A Service of Thanksgiving and Re-dedication

On the 75th anniversary of the opening of the first lifeboat station at Barry, the Bishop of Llandaff, Rt Rev John Poole Hughes, will re-dedicate the two lifeboats Arun and Susan Ashley at the Barry Lifeboat Station.

After a second dry summer, another chance to see last year's film where Lancashire growers talked to Bob Norman about their unique conditions of climate, soil and markets.
BBC Birmingham

Weather for farmers

Ten films show how different tribes cope with the problems of life in North America today.

The resistance of the Plains Indians was finally crushed in 1890 by the massacre at Wounded Knee.

A season of films starring the internationally acclaimed British actor.

Simon Sparrow is now Sir Lancelot Spratt's colleague, but his good looks still cause havoc among the opposite sex and get him into the most impossible scrapes.
Films: page 10

At the end of August every year dancers and singers from all over the world gather in Billingham in the North East of England for what is widely regarded as one of the most colourful and exciting festivals in the world.

More than 500 performers from a dozen countries include representatives from Cuba, Israel, Mexico, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, USA and Yugoslavia.

Michael Rodd introduces some of the spectacular moments from the 12th Billingham International Folklore Festival.

BBC Manchester

The last programme in this British Academy Award-winning series.

The Story of Christopher Columbus who discovered the New World in 1492

Introduced by David Attenborough from the Royal Geographical Society, London

Incredibly, Columbus refused to accept that he had found a new continent. He had set out on his first voyage in the Santa Maria to search for the spices and gold of the Orient. When he reached the shores of the New World he was convinced he had discovered a new route to China. And he carried that belief to his grave.

Today's film tells the little-known story of what really happened to Columbus and his men. From the Royal Court of Spain to the slave camps of the New World, it traces the dramatic decline of a man who made a momentous discovery - but would not accept it.

"One of the best films to end a superior series." (Daily Express)
"A fascinating and powerful film." (Yorkshire Post)

Weather Bill Giles

A lively new look at words and letters
(Repeated: Thurs 1.5 pm, Sat 10.0 am)

Adults wanting help with reading can ring [number removed] or send their name, address and telephone number to: [address removed]

A miscellany of music and poetry to praise this world of ours and its Creator for "Who has not found the Heaven below
Will fail of it above."
Introduced by Glyn Houston
with Wynford Evans, Father Francis 'Porterhouse'
Ttregaron School Choir conductor Ethel Jones

BBC Cymru/Wales

starring William Holden
Alec Guinness , Jack Hawkins with Sessue Hayakawa , James Donald Ann Sears , Geoffrey Home
The epic story of the Japanese ' death railway' of World War II and the men who built it. David Lean 's famous film combines spectacular action sequences with close-ups of the personalities of Col Nicholson of the British Army and Col Saito, his Japanese captor.
Screenplay by PIERRE BOULLE based on his own novel
Director DAVID LEAN. Films: page 10

with Angela Rippon ; Weather