A See-Saw programme
Quiet Please

With Alison Christie-Murray, John Dryden, Jill Shakespeare and Glen Stuart

Oscar catches a cold, Mackintosh gets a sun-tan, and J.D. continues the story of the early Church.

BBC Manchester

Interviews with a new generation of Asian film-makers and excerpts from their films.
JAMIL DEHLVI The Blood of Hussain PREM KAPOOR Two Monsoons YUGESH WALIA Mirror, Mirror
Studio director KRISITAN COULD
Producer SALEEM SHAHED. BBC Birmingham

ROY CASTLE goes cycling and he meets DR RONALD Williams , a London gp, who makes all his home visits on a bicycle. Other keen cyclists include members of Beeston cycling club and actor DEREK GRIFFITHS.

Ten programmes for beginners in Spanish. 9: Wanting to do Things
Producer MADDALENA FACANDINI
(Complementary radio programme on Radio 4 VHF at 5.0 and Wed at 11.0 pw)

A practical guide to everyday writing, with seven new and handy ways of remembering spelling. Today there's help with writing personal letters. Presented by BARRY TOOK
Producer CAROLINE PICK ( Repeat)
( Repealed on Monday BBC2 at 11.25 am) Book name title) £1.50, from bookshops

Brush up your reading and writing with BRIAN REDHEAD
! and ERIC SYKES
JULIAN chagrin
Book (same title), £1.20, from bookshops

A course in 25 parts for beginners in German. 8: Um die Ecke
Producer MADDALENA PAGANDINI
(Also on Radio 4 VHF at 4.30 pm and on Friday at 11.0 pm)

Ten projects for making furniture at home, presented by David Day and Albert Jackson.
(Repeat)
Book (same title), £7.50, from bookshops

Last week we were ' Looking to Advent'; today is Advent Sunday and St Andrew 's Day. Appropriately our worship comes from Hope Park Church, St Andrews , Fife. The service is led by the Minister,
THE REV WILLIAM HENNEY.
Zion hears the watchmen singing (Wachet auf); Thou shalt arise (Duke Street); St Mark 1, w 14-20 (NEB); When Jesus saw the fishermen (Joys Seven); 0 come, 0 come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel); St John 10, vv 1-10 (NEB); From all that dwell (Lasst uns erfreuen); Christ is coming (Neander) Organist JOHN M. HOWIE
Introduced by JAMES O'HARA Television presentation by LESLIE MITCHELL. BBC Scotland

With PHILIP WRIXON
DAN CHERRINGTON
Producer JOHN KENYON. BBC Birmingham
Weather for farmers FRA,K GREENE

in Quackodile Tears
A WARNER BROTHERS cartoon

Six programmes in which John Noakes and Shep take a Sunday-afternoon drive down the by-ways of Britain.
3: Downs and Rivers
John punts down the Thames, puts a leg on a chair, and goes up, up and away. Percy Edwards chats to the animals at Whipsnade, and Shep takes a close look at village life.
Research JANE TARLETON
Film editor DOROTHEA GAZIDIS Producer DAVID BROWN
Director CYRIL GATES. BBC Manchester

Introduced by Arthur Askey and Jenny Lee-Wright from the ABC Theatre, Blackpool

Peter Karrie and Focus Two, Michael Ward, Zeppy Daniel, Jim Williamson and Vernon Whitehead, Leni Harper, Brian Chaplin, Anna Bernardin, Whisky Mac

BBC Manchester

with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman

by sir WALTER SCOTT , dramatised in nine episodes by ANTHONY STEVEN
1: The treachery of friends; the nobility of enemies; the steadfast devotion of an impossible love; this romance of the days of chivalry has all the power that only Scott could bring to his favourite subject, the Crusaders.
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN DEUTSCH
Script editor ALISTAIR BELL Designer JULIAN WILLIAMS Producer BARRY LETTS
Directed by RICHARD BRAMALL Woddis On ... page 101

from Motherwell
This St Andrew's Day programme comes from a Lanarkshire steel town where Michael Barratt meets local townspeople, who talk, among other things, about current industrial problems and Scottish country dancing. Congregations gather to sing in South Dalziel Parish Church.
Conductor DAVID RAIN
Organist JOHN PITCAITHLEY Film director RALPH ROLLS Producer RALPH SMITH
Series producer RAYMOND SHORT BBC Scotland

with special guests The Shadows singer/songwriter Labi Siffre and THE GEOFFREY RICHER DANCERS
Written by MAURICE GRAN. LAURENCE MARKS SPIKE MULLINS and NEIL SHAND
Choreography GEOFFREY RICHER
Musical director RONNIE HAZLEHURST Vocal backing
THE MAGGIE STREDDER SINGERS
Designers PAUL ALLEN , GARY PRITCHARD Producer STANLEY APPEL

with Magnus Magnusson
Semi-final: this match comes from Christ's Hospital Arts Centre, Sussex.
The four contenders competing for a place in the Final are
Fred Housego (licensed taxi driver) Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster
Christopher Pelly (teacher)
Life and works of Vladimir Nabokov
Edward Saunders (architect) Life of John Clare
Elizabeth Shaw (teacher)
Life of the Duke of Wellington
Series producer BILL WRIGHT Production
ANTONIA CHARLTON , MART CRAIG
Book, Mastermind 3, 80p, from bookshops

by George Douglas, dramatised for television by Bill Craig
with Iain Cuthbertson as Gourlay

Gourlay owns The House with the Green Shutters, and rides rough-shod over the village of Barbie, but the villagers would love to see his power destroyed and the house in ruins, if only someone could be found to do battle.

BBC Scotland

Weather

The second semi-final of this dancing series comes from the Lyceum Ballroom. The two teams battling it out tonight are North West and Home Counties North
Keeping his feet firmly off the dance floor and seeing fair play is Peter Marshall
The commentary and anecdotes are supplied by BRUCE HAMMAL
The demonstration dancing is by Michael and Vicky Barr
Director SIMON BETTS
Producer RICK GARDNER

Advice columnist CIAIRE RAYNER meets people who have faced up to personal crises in their lives and suggests some ways of approaching such problems.
In the ninth of ten programmes, Claire meets four people who had to face a complete reappraisal of their lives after divorce, marital stress and bereavement.
Research VICKY MOORE
Producer DAVID CORDINGLEY