A lively look at words and letters with DONALD GEE, BOB HOSKINS and POLLY JAMES
MARTIN SHAW
NIGEL STOCK, GAY HAMILTON
Script by BARRY TOOK

Weather BILL GILES

With BOB LANGLEY, DONNY MACLEOD DAVID SEYMOUR , MARIAN FOSTER and JAN LEEMING
Editor TERRY DOBSON

Lines and Circles: Circles with VICKI LUKE

English: Thomas Hardy
His poetry and his life

with Alfred Burke
Mr Moon 's Last Case by BRIAN PATTEN Today: Capture

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
We've four weeks left to prepare for Christmas. Lesley shows a present to make for mums, aunts and older sisters.
Blue Peter Thirteenth Book, £1.00, from bookshops

Richard Whitmore ; Weatherman

Presenting the British scene to the people of Britain.
Co-ordinated this week by MICHAEL BARRATT and FRANK BOUGH
DILYS MORGAN , VALERIE SINGLETON and BOB WELLINGS

Starring Eric Sykes, Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler
with Brenda Cowling, Rafiq Anwar

Another episode starring Telly Savalas

Richard Whitmore ; Weather

A series of six programmes in which Esther Rantzen meets six talented people - all amateurs in their field - who are given a chance to take part in a spectacular event and meet the professionals. They go behind the scenes in the worlds of show business, journalism, music, fashion, haute cuisine and horse-racing.

This week Mrs Joan Barrow, a farmer's wife from the Cotswolds, goes into training for her first race under National Hunt rules. It is a dangerous and strenuous sport, and to prepare herself Joan meets Sue Horton, Peter O'Sullevan, Richard Pitman, Graham Thorner and David Nicholson, who advise her how to tackle The Big Time.

JOHN TIMPSON and DENIS TUOHY look at some of the people and topics that provoke, entertain, worry or amuse us.
Robin Day examines a topical issue.
Editor CHRISTOPHER CAPRON