by PETER FIRMIN and OLIVER POSTGATE :
A magazine for Asian viewers including discussions, review of recent news, music and stories from the communities.
Produced and presented by Mahendra Kaul
BBC Birmingham
A series of 16 programmes: 14
Three large robins fought for food A mnemonic to help you remember the shapes 'th', 'l', 'r', 'ee', ' ah ', ' aw ', and ' oo '.
News and information for the deaf on Ceefax page 169
Aspects of Mental Handicap
A series of six short films for parents and those professionally concerned with mental handicap, developed with additional material from the documentary first shown in September 1978.
3:Special Education
Written and produced by GORDON CROTON
JIMMY YOUNG'S
Guide to Everyday Maths
Ten programmes to brush-up your confidence with numbers. 5: Going Metric
This week Jim's guests include DELIA SMITH with some useful tips on cooking, metric style; CHRIS SERLE joins HILARY PRITCHARD and NORMAN BOWLER as they try measuring in metres, litres and grams.
With MANDY MORE and PETER AUBREY
A series of 20 programmes
13: A look at travel and transport in the Soviet Union.
And Goodbye, Summer: Episode 8
A second-stage Italian language series: ten programmes looking at Italy today. 1: Torino
The problems of an historic and dignified city that has developed into the Detroit of Italy.
Presented by DENIS MACK SMITH
Produced by MADDALENA FAGANDINI
Book (same title), £2.25, from bookshops
with ROY HUDD and IRENE THOMAS
IAN WILLIAMS of the British Red Cross is today's guest with a quiz on home remedies and some advice on coping with falls; we also meet two members of the only union that 'allows its members to be trodden on'; and we explore the pleasures of swimming as an all-the-year-round sport for the retired.
Director GILES OAKLEY Producer BRIGIT BARRY
Family worship from Surrey Chapel Free Church, Norwich.
A celebration of the resurrection through song, mime, prayer, and worship. Led by the minister, PASTOR DAVID MIDDLETON Organist BRIAN SPELMAN.
Television presentation by JOHN WILCOX BBC Birmingham
featuring the news and views, politics and policies of those involved with the land. With PHILIP WRIXON
DAN CHERRINGTON
Producer JOHN KENYON. BBC Birmingham
Weather for farmers JACK SCOTT
Ten films about the wildlife of the seashore, presented by TONY SOPER. 5: Duneland
The tussocks of marram grass on sand dunes are home for some fascinating birds - terns, black-headed gulls, ringed plovers and oyster catchers. And behind the dunes are the marshy ' slacks' where you can find orchids, newts and maybe a natterjack toad.
Producer RON BLOOMFIELD
The Coca-Cola International from Leeds
Many of the outstanding European swimmers compete in this eight-nation international. Favourites to win are the USSR, who have now deposed East Germany as the leading swimming nation in Europe. The British team will find this a useful guide to their form as Olympic year progresses. Commentators
ALAN WEEKS, HAMILTON BLAND
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON
with Richard Baker ; Weatherman
by PAMELA BROWN , starring
THE BLUE DOOR THEATRE COMPANY
Dramatised in four episodes by JULIA JONES
1; This is the first-ever television production of a children's s classic that has retained its popularity for almost 40 years. Set in an English seaside town in the late
30s the story tells of a group of eager, stage-struck youngsters who turn a disused old chapel into a theatre, with themselves as resident company.
Music by PAUL READE Choreography by GERALDINE STEPHENSON
Film cameraman FINTAN SHEEHAN Script editor ALISTAIR BELL Designer MARTIN COLLINS Producer BARRY LETTS
Directed by JOAN CRAFT
from Oldham, Lancashire
Known once as the spinning centre of the world, Oldham still presents a landscape of textile mill chimneys set against Pennine foothills.
Michael Barratt talks to Oldhamers like poet EDITH RALPHS and JOHN LONGWORTH, secretary ot the local textile employers' association. They come with people from local churches to sing their favourite hymns in the Parish Church of St Mary with St Peter, which celebrates its 150th anniversary this year.
Hollywood Nights
Olivia and her friends recall some musical successes in a show recorded for Oscars' night in Hollywood.
Elton John, Cliff Richard
Andy Gibb , Peaches, Ted Knight Melissa Manchester , Toni Tenille Special guest star Gene Kelly
Programme recorded in America
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Weather
At the heart of the events which make news lie deeper. concerns: the principles on which decisions are based, the effective values and beliefs which are shaping society. In filmed reports for the next ten weeks Peter France follows the issues of the week as they develop; looking with those most directly concerned at the fundamental values behind the headlines.
Film editor MICHAEL ALOOF Producers
DAVID M. THOMPSON , COLIN CAMERON
The last of a series of 15 films Everybody's Friend
Japan's foreign policy is ' omnidirectional ' - to remain on good terms with all countries, whilst her security is guaranteed by treaty with the United States. How much longer can Japan avoid playing a more positive role in world-affairs? And can she avoid becoming a military power?
Photography NIGEL MEAKIN
Film editor MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Directed by PETER RAMSDEN Produced by HOWARD SMITH
