A magazine for Asian viewers 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, BBC2, 10.35 am)
by PETER FIRMIN and OLIVER POSTGATE
A series of 25 programmes Spanish for beginners: 24
Presented by ALISON SKILBECK and CARLOS RIERA
Producer DAVID HARGREAVES (Repeated: Tuesday, BBC2, 7.5 pm)
A Parents and Children series of 15 programmes looking at the emotional and physical experience of pregnancy and the first weeks of life.
1 :This week CLAIRE WOOLFORD introduces the 'care team' - the doctors and nurses you will meet during your pregnancy and afterwards - and looks at the particular job each does. Also on hand is CLAIRE RAYNER who will be presenting a regular ' problem page' to answer viewers' questions about pregnancy and babies.
Film editor PETER ORTON Research JOHN BROOKE Producer DICK FOSTER
Book, Claire Rayner Answers Your 100 Questions on Pregnancy, 95p, from bookshops
The pleasures and problems, chances and challenges, of retirement ... not forgetting a touch of nostalgia.
Presented by ROY HUDD and IRENE THOMAS
Director CHARLES PASCOE
Producer BRIGIT BARRY (Repeated- Thursday 3.25 pm)
A series of 19 programmes
12:Help! I Need Somebody
What special arrangements do childminders have to. make in case of accidents?
Presented by BRIAN REDHEAD
Producer SUZANNE DAVIES
Series producer DAVID ALLEN
Book (same title), £1.00, from bookshops
A 26-part series about musical terms, topics and instruments. W for
Woodwind JACK BRYMER compares and contrasts the four principal members of the orchestral woodwind family with DAVID BUTT (flute) RICHARD MORGAN (oboe)
GEOFFREY GAMBOLD (baSSOOn)
Director IAN HAMILTON
Producer JOHN DOBSON. BBC Bristol
Jack Brymer compares and contrasts the four main members of the orchestral woodwind family, including the flute, oboe and bassoon.
Two of the world's greatest laughter-makers.
Stan and Ollie soon forget what they joined the Foreign Legion to forget.
Films: page 11
Presented by Paddy Feeny The Final
Teams from
WREXHAM: finding out why honey-bees die during transportation
KESWICK: investigating the megalithic stone circle at Castle Rigg
PERTH: using a weedkiller to increase plant growth
YEOVIL: taking the curl out of sheep's wool compete for the title and the Royal Institution Young Scientists' Trophy.
Judging their projects:
PROFESSOR FRED HOLLIDAY zoologist
PROFESSOR JACK MEADOWS astronomer
SIR GEORGE PORTER , chemist
Studio director JOHN GORMAN Producer PETER BRUCE
by CHARLES DICKENS; dramatised in six parts by HUGH LEONARD
One of the most richly entertaining and sociologically interesting of all Dickens's novels. The story, packed with incident, humorous and tragic, follows the fortunes of a young man and his sister when cruel fate brings them face-to-face with the harsh reality of life and work in early Victorian England.
Script editor ALISTAIR BELL Designer GRAHAM OAKLEY Producer BARRY LETTS Director
CHRISTOPHER BARRY
Weatherman
with DONALD GEE
BOB HOSKINS and NORMAN ROSSINGTON
MARTIN SHAW
NIGEL STOCK
Script BARRY TOOK
(Repeated: Thursday 12.35 pm)
Adults wanting help with reading can ring [number removed]or send their name, address and telephone number to: On the Move, [address removed].
The first of a series of 13 plays reflecting life in the last 25 years.
Hannah Gordon in Almost Tomorrow by RAY CONNOLLY with Kathleen Byron , Lalla Ward and David Savile
1952: ' It's time for a change ... it's time I changed ... I want to move into the 20th century ... even if it is half-over.'
Sound NORMAN BENNETT Designer
DICK COLES
Producer PIETER ROGERS Director PETER MOFFATT
starring David Niven
Margaret Leighton with Jack Hawkins , Cyril Cusack They seek him here, They seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere ...
David Niven is the apparently languid and ineffectual Sir Percy in this spectacular adventure of the French Revolution, based on the exploits of Baroness Orczy's famous character ' The Scarlet Pimpernel'.
Written, produced and directed by MICHAEL POWELL and EMERIC PRESSBURGER Films: page 11
with Richard Whitmore ; Weather
with Esther Rantzen
Reporters: Kieran Prendiville, Glyn Worsnip
Oddities of the Week from Cyril Fletcher
Song of the Week: Jake Thackray