Weather IAN MCCASKILL
including the film feature Focus with Tony Bilbow
by Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate
(Repeat)
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
with Vicki Luke
(Repeat)
(Shown on BBC2 at 11.0 am)
(Repeat)
with Derek Jacobi Tales from Tartary by JAMES RIORDAN
Today: Altynchech and the Padishah's Wife
When the little sister married the king, her elder sisters were jealous, and they stole away her babies and put skunks in their place. The court was in uproar.
Starring Rod Hull and Emu
with Billy Dainty, Barbara New and Tom Chatto
Emu invades the screen with 25 minutes of fun and action with your favourite shows and some surprises. Open Emuversity continues its smash-hit run, excitement is mounting in the weekly serial Emu Trek and stand by for sparkling new shows from the zaniest TV channel in the world.
BBC Manchester
with Lesley Judd, Simon Groom and Christopher Wenner
Blue Peter Fifteenth Book, £1.35, from bookshops
with Angela Rippon; Weatherman
The Nationwide team of Frank Bough, Sue Lawley, John Stapleton and Bob Wellings provide you with background to the news of the day and presents some of the less serious features and stories that make up the scene Nationwide.
Including Miss World of Talent - a chance for some of the beautiful girls gathered in London for 'Miss World 1978' to reveal their hidden talents: from ballet to painting, from guitar-playing to gymnastics.
by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey
Starring Richard Briers, Felicity Kendal and Penelope Keith
with Paul Eddington
How do you tell your best friend that his wife is deceiving him?
(Repeat)
with Magnus Magnusson
Contestants from Cheltenham, Chipping Campden, Glastonbury and Swansea take up the challenge of Mastermind at Bath University. The contestants are
MARGARET SOUTHON , midwife Alexander the Great
SEUMUS STEWART, bookseller
Life and works of Robert Burns
JULIAN FETTERLEIN , tax consultant Life and works of Oscar Wilde
COLIN HUNT , freelance translator
The works of John Cowper Powys
Director PETER MASSEY Producer BILL WRIGHT
with Angela Rippon ; Weather
A special documentary programme to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the end of the Great War.
Presented by the distinguished journalist and historian John Grigg.
Sixty years ago this week, the most terrible war the world had known was coming to an end after 52 months of heroism, sacrifice and suffering. At 5.0 am on 11 November 1918 the Armistice was signed and at 11.0 am hostilities ceased-though, tragically, men were being killed up to the very stroke of that llth hour.
This documentary, filmed in France, Belgium and Britain, shows how the Great War reached its dramatic conclusion and how people reacted to the coming of peace. It describes the origin and meaning of those emotionally charged institutions imperishably associated with that war - the cult of the Unknown Warrior, the Flanders Poppy and Armistice Day itself, with its unforgettable two minutes silence. And it asks the question: should we go on remembering?
Written by JOHN GRIGG and MALCOLM BROWN Research SHIRLEY SEATON Photography JIM PEIRSON Sound JULIAN BALDWIN
Film editor LES NEWMAN Produced by MALCOLM BROWN
(When the Guns Stopped Firing, next Saturday 10.15 pm on Radio 4; next Sunday, the Cenotaph Service on BBCl)
Starring Robert Stack as Capt Evers
with Shelly Novack as Sgt Benson, Jo Ann Harris as Officer Manners and Lynda Day George as Laurie Chandler
Beautiful Laurie Chandler is a very clever criminal lawyer and she uses all her professional skill when she turns to the wrong side of the law to head a burglary ring. But its activities lead to murder.