With JOHN DRYDEN , TINA HEATH
JILL SHAKESPEARE , GLEN STUART
The Gang meet a Camelephantelopelicanary and Mackintosh Mouse faces the music. Dodo continues the story of Joseph.
Associate producer NORMAN STONE Producer DAVID BROWN
BBC Manchester
A magazine for Asian viewers Produced and presented by SALEEM SHAHED
Directed by ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Birmingham
Fifth of ten programmes for trade unionists on Democracy at Work.
Why are unions now seeking to bargain about company pension schemes? Why are they claiming seats on pension fund boards of trustees? How much could this benefit companies and their employees?
Introduced by ALAN GRANT , NATSOPA
Director NICK GOSLING
Producer JOHN TWITCHIN
Book, Democracy at Work, £1.50, from bookshops, or direct from [address removed]
A series of 20 programmes which aims to help mentally-handicapped people get more out of life.
7:Let's Go and Look After Our Teeth. Presented by BRIAN RIX
Directed by ROSANNA HIBBERT
Series producer GORDON CROTON
(Repealed on Monday, BBC2, 2.15 pm; Tuesday, BBC1. 10.30 am)
Let's Go Notes for parents and teachers, 65p including postage, are available from [address removed].
A combined television and radio course for beginners in Spanish, in ten parts, with on-the-spot documentary film and recording. 6: Eating Out with ISABEL SOTO , JULIO MORALES EMILIA REDONDO , PABLO SOTO MIGUEL PENARANDA
SANTIAGO VARELA , CARLOS RIERA
Film director DAVID WILSON
Producer MADDALENA FAGANDINI
Complementary radio programme on Radio 4 VHF today. 3.0 pm. repeated on Tuesday 7 November, 11.0 pm
Books, records (or cassettes) and Notes for Teachers are available from bookshops or from BBC Publications.
A 24-part French course for beginners on TV and radio: 6 with CHRISTIAN BRUMELL as Michel and GILLES DATTAS , ANDRE MARANNE
CAROLLE ROUSSEAU , ELMA SOIRON
PAUL COUSTER , ANNE-MARIANNE DURIN LUCIEN BRUN , MICHEL ASCARIDE
Scripts by JEAN-CLAUDE ARRAGON MJREILLE FLEMING. ANTOINE TUDAL Directed by TERRY DOYLE
Produced by TONY ROBERTS
Ensemble radio programme on Sundays at 2.30 pm and Wednesdays at 11.0 pm on Radio 4 VHF
Book (same title), £1.30, and records (or cassettes), from bookshops
Details of a special Ensemble correspondence course are available from the National Extension College, Cambridge. Information on other learner support schemes for Ensemble viewers from the Language Centre, Brighton Polytechnic.
A series of 7 films for safety representatives and all concerned with health and safety at work. 3: Chemicals, Dust and Fumes
On any one working-day, over 100,000 chemicals are in use in this country.
DR L. LEVY , of the University of Aston in Birmingham, offers advice to safety representatives on threshold limit values and the sources of information available to them. Individual safety representatives describe ways in which they have faced - and helped to resolve - problems which have arisen in their own workplaces. Commentary spoken by DENNIS WATERMAN
Producer ROBERT CLAMP Director ROBERT ALBURY
For background notes to the series. send soe (A4, 15p stomp) to: [address removed]
A 15-part sociology series: 5If a Child Could Choose its Parents
This programme looks at the way the child's aspirations and expectations are influenced by streaming in the school, parental support in the home, and class and community pressures.
Narrated by MICHAEL MOLYNEUX
Script adviser MALCOLM DAVIES Producer TONY ROBERTS
Director JULIAN STENHOUSE
(Repeated on Tuesday, BBC2. 3.30 pml
Background notes relating to the series and details of closely-related correspondence courses can be obtained by sending a large sae to: [address removed].
The ruined abbey and historic parish church of Much Wenlock appear to have little in common with the new church and community centre in Stirchley, part of the new town of Telford.
R. T. BROOKS in Much Wenlock and RAYMOND SHORT in Telford look at the buildings and ask how they reflect the beliefs of those who use them.
Producer MICHAEL SHOESMITH BBC Birmingham
in What Makes Daffy Duck and Daffy Duck Slept Here
WARNER BROTHERS CartOOnS
The return of one of the best-loved Western series, starring
The Lady and the Mountain Lion
Hoss and Little Joe fall under the spell of the lovely daughter of an itinerant magician and mystify Ben with their totally opposite descriptions of the lady's charms.
A search for the most entertaining and talented town or city in Great Britain.
Introduced by Terry Wogan Bristol v Coventry
Team Celebrity Team Celebrity Leslie Crowther Stanley Unwin Presented before 25 judges in BBC studios throughout the British Isles. Musical director BERNARD HERRMANN
Designer CHRIS GEORGE
Associate producer GEOFF WILSON Producer BARNEY COLEHAN BBC Manchester
starring Michael Crawford
' I don't know why, but I always do stunts with gloves on' says MICHAEL CRAWFORD in this documentary about the creation of that unique character Frank Spencer from the immensely popular comedy series Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em. Film cameras take us behind the scenes as Michael explains the detailed preparations for some of the hilarious but extremely dangerous stunts that have been a special feature of the series. Narrated by RICHARD BEBB
Scenes from Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em produced by MICHAEL MILLS
Written and directed by JAMES fortune
(A new series of Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em starts next Saturday; Michael Craw ford is a guest of Blue Peter, Mon 5.5)
Richard Whitmore ; Weatherman
by John Buchan, dramatised in six parts by Edward Boyd, with Paul Curran as Dickson McCunn, Peter Settelen as John Heritage, Jean Taylor Smith as Mrs Morran, Andrew Faulds as James Loudon and Emma Jacobs as Saskia
Heritage and Dickson McCunn, with the help of the Gorbals Diehards, have managed to get inside Huntingtower and contact the imprisoned Princess Saskia. But can two men and six small boys defeat the combined strength of Loudon, Dobson, Leon, Spidel and the tinkers?
BBC Scotland
from Bristol
In the northern part of the port of Bristol, home of Concorde, MICHAEL BARRETT has been talking to people about their lives and their favourite hymns, sung tonight by local choirs and congregations in Horfield Baptist Church.
Good Christian men rejoice (Vulpius); Lord, thy kingdom (Stuttgart); All my hope (Meine Hoffnung ); The Lord's my Shepherd (Crimond); When I survey (Rockingham); And can it be (Sagina); Be thou my guardian (Abridge); Faith of our fathers (David's Harpj; The God of Abraham praise iLeoni). Conductor PETER WILKINSON Organist RAYMOND HILLMAN Film director ANGELA TILRY Producer JOHN dosson
Series producer ANDREW BARR
starring
Robert Stephens , Colin Blakely with Irene Handl , Christopher Lee Tamara Toumanova Genevieve Page
Billy Wilder 's version of the most famous sleuth in literature is more liberally endowed with a sense of humour than the original and his detective powers are distinctly fallible. A lovely lady arrives dripping from the Thames and the Great Detective is enmeshed in a mystery that involves midgets, canaries and the Loch Ness monster.
Sherlock Holmes. ..ROBERT STEPHENS
Screenplay hy BILLY WILDER and i. A. L. DIAMOND. Based on the characters created by SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Directed by BILLY WILDER. Films: page 17
with Richard Whitmore ; Weather
Everyman on the road with the travelling people.
To some they are romantic Kings of the Road; to others they are parasites who litter the lay-bys.
To Father Daly they are his parish: 15,000 Irish gypsies whose Roman Catholic faith survives antagonism from local residents and indifference from local authorities. For 12 years FATHER DALY has chosen to work amongst them, responding to a call unwittingly begun by a fortune-teller.
Reporter Patti Steeples
Film cameraman CRANAM EDGAR Film editor MARGARETTE BENDALL Producer COLIN CAMERON Editor PETER ARMSTRONG
(Postponed from 22 October)
The Paperback Programme
Introduced by Ronald Harwood Authors of the Week
Colleen McCullough with The Thorn Birds. the epic novel which
The Guardian called ' the Australian answer to Gone with the Wind
Michael Moorcock , with Gloriana, a romance which The Spectator described as ' teeming with extraordinary life and complexity ... a remarkable book'.
Books of the Week chosen by Carolyn Slaughter , writer D. M. Thomas , writer, and Yehudi Menuhin
Quiz of the Week set by Lady Antonia Fraser on Patricia Highsmith
Studio director BOB LOCKYER Producer JULIA MATHESON
Six programmes telling the story of crime fiction from Poe to the present.
Commentary by Julian Symons, with Lord Gore Booth and an archival interview with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
How the omniscient detective was invented by Edgar Allan Poe; how he was epitomised by Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes; and how E.W. Hornung created his antithesis in Raffles, the super-criminal.
With Jeremy Clyde, Michael Cochrane and Alex Davion
Book (same title), ã5.35 (hardback), £3.25 (paperback), from bookshops
