6.40 The Composer and his Audience

7.5 Therapeutic Community

7.30 Solids, Liquids and Gases

What is clay, and how do you prepare it? Potter Mary Rogers demonstrates how she makes pinch, coil and slab pots. Plus a look at some pre-Columbian, hand-built pottery.

Weather JACK SCOTT

With DONNY MACLEOD , DAVID SEYMOUR and MARIAN FOSTER including Medicine Matters with Dr David Delvin

Bod and Breakfast

A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them.
With Wendy Padbury and Stephen Leigh.

2.14 Treffpunkt: Deutschland: An Ort und Stelle

2.30 The Plough and the Stars: Part 1
by Sean O'Casey
Starring Siobhan McKenna and T. P. McKenna
with Doreen Leogh, Stephen Rea and Dermot Kelly
A new production in three parts of the story of Dubliners during the Easter Uprising of 1916.

Light entertainment
(English transmitters only. First shown on BBC Cymru/Wales)

and his Friends
Touche Turtle and Walty Gator
A cartoon about three characters with a highly individual life-style and a way-out way of coping with adventure.

Michael Aspel introduces your requests from recent BBC television programmes.
With him in the studio. this week: Claire Francis
Producer PHILIP CHILVERS
(Send your requests to: Ask Aspel, BBC Television, London W12 SQT)

with John Coston
The Emperor from Africa
The first African to become Emperor of Rome was Lucius Septimius Severus. He ruled the Roman world for 18 years and then died in England, in the old city of York. His own city in North Africa has recently been discovered, after being buried for centuries beneath a fine covering of sand. Today, JOHN COSTON visits York and North Africa to tell the story of Septimdus, the soldier from Africa whose dreams of greatness came true. Storyteller RAY SMITH
Illustrator PAUL JOHNSON
Film cameraman DEREK BANKS Film editor LARRY TOFT Producer MOLLY COX

with Angela Rippon ; Weatherman

Television's most popular current affairs magazine presented each weekday evening by FRANK BOUGH , SUE LAWLEY, JOHN STAPLETON and BOB WELLINGS , with contributions from BBC studios throughout the country. Also from far and near, the programme's team of reporters LUKE CASEY , BERNARD CLARK , KEVIN COSGROVE , TONY FRANCIS , DIANE HARRON , JAMES HOGG , BILL KERR ELLIOTT, NICHOLAS WOOLLEY and MARTIN YOUNG bring you films and features that reflect the way life is Nationwide.

by ERIC MERRIMAN and CHRISTOPHER BOND starring Terry Scott and June Whitfield Terry bullies the local operatic society into presenting The King and I - with the inevitable chaotic results. with STUART SHERWIN , GORDON SALKILLD NORMAN ATKYNS and SARAH TAMAKHUNI
Musical director DENNIS WILSON Costume JUDY ALLEN Make-up sue FREAR
Designer OLIVER BAYLDON Producer PETER WHITMORE

Starring Jim Davis as John 'Jock' Ewing, Larry Hagman as J.R. Ewing, Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing, Barbara Bel Geddes as Eleanor Southworth Ewing and Victoria Principal as Pamela Barnes Ewing
Guest star David Wayne as Digger Barnes

Pamela is expecting a child and both she and Bobby are delighted. She also hopes that a grandchild will end the feud between Jock Ewing and Digger Barnes. But the news causes a chain of dramatic reactions.

"An unusually superior [production]... excellent photography and characterisation..." (Evening Standard)

with Angela Rippon ; Weather

by Jack Jones
Adapted for television in three parts by Elaine Morgan.

Joseph Parry, spurning Sir William Sterndale Bennett's advice, returns to Wales as Professor of Music. Soon the newly-fledged University of Aberystwyth wonders what it has let itself in for.
BBC Cymru/Wales

Presented by Denis Tuohy and Valerie Singleton
Including News Headlines