including discussions, review of recent news, music and stories from the communities. Produced and presented by MAHENDRA KAUL
Director ASHOK RAMPAL.
BBC Birmingham
(Repeated: Wednesday BBC 1, 10.35 am)

with the Playboard Puppet Theatre and Christopher Lillicrap

A series of 15 programmes
1 : Fuelling Inflation - Miners or Sheiks?
Producer CHRIS JELLEY (Repeat")
(Repeated: Tuesday, BBC2 at 3.30 pm)
Book (same title) £1.60, from bookshops

A series of 25 programmes Spanish for beginners: 2
Presented by ALisoN SKILBECK and CARLOS RIERA with JUAN IGNACIO MACIA , SAGRARIO SALA
Director CAROL WISEMAN
Producer DAVID HARGREAVES
(Rptd: Tuetday, BBC2: at 7.5 pm) Book £1.00. record £1.62 or cassette £2.81

Meeting Place
In the second of three visits to Oldham Parish Church DAVID DAVIES joins in a service of thanks-giving and again asks REV JAMES BENTLEY and members of his congregation
What have we to be thankful for? with SHEILA COLLIER and the SMOKY CITY JAZZ BAND and children's choirs conducted by HILDA LONGWORTH and KATE BOOTH Organist JOHN COOK
Producer B. T. brooks

A series of ten programmes on dressmaking for beginners Presented by ANN LADBURY 1: T-shirt
Have you always wanted to learn to sew your own clothes? This first programme will show you how to make a successful start with a quickly and simply-made T-shirt.
Executive producer SHEILA INNES Producer JENNY ROGERS
Book (same title), 12.40, from bookshops

A series of 20 programmes Brush up your reading and writing with BRIAN REDHEAD and SHEILA HANCOCK
BERNARD HEPTON , ROY KINNEAR
Script BARRY TOOK
Adviser CATHERINE MOORHOUSE Director BARBARA DERKOW
Producer DAVID HARGREAVES
(Repeated: Thursday 7.5 pm, BBC2)
Adults wanting help with reading can ring [address removed] or send their name. address and telephone number to: [address removed], Book (same title) £1.20, from bookshops

Ten programmes for physically disabled people.
Corbet Woodall and Jill Lumb (both disabled) explore embarrassments caused by the attitudes of the general public; some electronic aids available to disabled people; and a self-help project on access.

The Sunshine Summer
Vegetable growers talk to DAVID RICHARDSON about the effects of the longest drought in recorded history.
Producer JOHN kENYON BBC Birmingham
Weather for farmers
BARBARA EDWARDS

Eleven programmes in which Erica Wilson introduces a variety of design ideas in simple stitches.

(WGBH Boston)

The first of a series of 26 programmes about musical instruments, terms and topics. A for Air
IVOR KEYS, Professor of Music at Birmingham University, explains basic tune shapes ', with JILL GOMEZ (soprano)
Director IAN HAMILTON
Producer JOHN DOBSON. BBC Bristol

This year the emi Elstree Studios at Borehamwood celebrate their 50th anniversary.
We look back over those 50 years, from the days when British International Pictures made their first silent films there, through to the present day when Elstree - which nearly closed its doors a short while ago- is once again a thriving studio.
We talk to directors Alfred Hitch cock and Ken Russell , to Douglas Fairbanks Jr , Roger Moore , Sylvia Syms , John Mills , Bryan Forbes and Elstree's Managing Director Andrew Mitchell. And we take a look at films like Blackmail, Blossom Time, The Dancing Years, Woman in a Dressing Gown, The Dam Busters, Ice Cold in Alex, Happy Go Lovely, The Punch and Judy Man , The Railway Children, Murder on the Orient Express and many others.
Narrator BERNARD CRIBBINS
Written and produced by RICHARD IVANS

and in The Breakdown

by SUSAN COOLIDGE , dramatised in six parts by CONSTANCE cox. Part 1
The well-loved story of the irrepressible Katy, 15 years old, with a genius for getting into scrapes.
Music cjmposed by DUDLEY SIMPSON
Script editor ALISTAIR BELL Designer BARRIE DOBBINS Producer BARRY LETTS Director JULIA SMITH

Weatherman

On the Move began a year ago. In the last year about 90,000 adults have come forward for help with their reading and writing. What happens if you ring [number removed] Norman Rossington finds out with Polly James, Donald Gee, Bob Hoskins.

(Rptd: Thurs 12.35 pm)
(A repeat of On the Move begins on Sunday 24 October. A new series about reading, Your Move, began today on BBC1 at 12.10 pm)

Soldier for Islam: VANYA KEWLEY reports from Libya with a film profile of Colonel Mu'Ammar Gadhafi - one of the most contentious political leaders in the world. He allowed Anno Domini cameras into his home, Cabinet meetings and private devotions.
Colonel Gadha'fi bases his regime on the Koran, yet supports revolutionary movements all over the world. How does he justify what seems to many an extraordinary paradox?
Producer VANYA KEWLEY
Editor PETER ARMSTRONG (Rptd: Mon 3.10)

by Elaine Morgan
A series in 16 parts
Starring Jean Anderson, Patrick O'Connell, Jennifer Wilson
with Richard Easton, Robin Chadwick, Derek Benfield

Merroney pushes Hammond Brothers into further plans for expansion, but a family bereavement reveals a new callous aspect to his character....

by DION BOUCICAULT adapted for television by GERALD SAVORY
A Play of the Month presentation
Sir Harcourt Courtly , ' the glass of fashion ', decides, at the commencement of the Season, to leave London to stay at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire. Such an unusual departure could only have one cause: he is to present Society with a second Lady Courtly.
Costume RAYMOND HUGHES
Script editor ALAN SHALLCROSS Designer DEREK DODD
Producer CEDRIC MESSINA Director RONALD WILSON

with Peter Woods ; Weather

The first of five programmes
The flute has age-old magical associations. Aztec slaves played it before being sacrificed; in Africa it brought rain and was a giver of life.
David Munrow re-creates the music and myth of early instruments before an invited audience.
With ALAN LUMSDEN and guest JAMES TYLER
Written by DAVID MUNROW
Producer VICTOR POOLE
Devised and directed by PAUL KRIWACZEK