6.40 Poisons that Paralyse

7.5 A Feel for Space

7.30 Systems, Boundaries and Biases

Weather JIM BACON

with Donny MacLeod , Marian Foster Bob Langley and Jonathan Fulford The television magazine that provides relaxed entertainment at lunchtime. In between the information and the informality, there is good music and interesting guests.
Editor JIM DUMIGHAN. BBC Birmingham

from Kenilworth

Story: Swimmy written and illustrated by LEO LIONNI Presenters
Chloe Ashcroft , Derek Griffiths

A series of eight programmes starring Keith Chegwin with special guests B. A. Robertson
Bucks Fizz, Coast to Coast
Cheggers presents this week's chart-topping sounds with fun and games from his twin teams the Reds and Yellows, led by GORDON ASTLEY and VIVIENNE MCKONE
Designer CHRIS EDWARDS
Executive producer PETER RIDSDALE SCOTT Producer MIKE STEPHENS BBC Manchester

Misadventures with Popeye, the spinach-guzzling cartoon sailor.

with Simon Groom , Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan
Assistant editor RENNY RYE Editor BIDDY BAXTER

based on the characters created by ALEX GRAHAM Fearless Fred
Voices LIONEL JEFFRIES
VICTOR SPINETTI and ANN BEACH
Written by HITCH HITCHENS Music IAN SAMWELL Director DICK HORN
Producer GRAEME SPURWAY

with Jan Leeming Weatherman

All this week Nationwide is travelling the country in a special series of programmes. Frank Bough , Sue Lawley, Richard Kershaw , Hugh Scully and Sue Cook have been invited to visit some of Britain's Most interesting communities. They'll also be presenting five special film reports and covering the week's liveliest stories.
Hugh Scully and Watchdog take to the road, to Gloucester, with a new consumer experiment:
Plus The New Face of Norman Britton : Nicholas Woolley tells the story of a man born with a terrible deformity. given new hope by unique surgery.
Producers
ANDREW CLAYTON , LINO FERRARI IAN SOUIRES. RICHARD TAIT
Deputy editor ANDREW TAUSSIG
Editor HUGH WILLIAMS Watchdog: page 80

TV's most famous sci-fi series
Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock

This week: The Lights of Zetar
The stars that an enamoured chief engineer of the Enterprise beholds in the eyes of his beloved signal a sinister take-over bid rather than a response to his ardour.
Many are to perish under the weird alien onslaught and more than one member of the crew has to endure immense pressure.
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Presented by David Dimbleby

'You can carry enough diamonds on your naked body to set you up for life,' said Ian Fleming. Diamonds and gold - the most precious substances known to man - excite the imagination. But by geological accident, in the real world the two biggest producers of gold and diamonds are bitter political enemies - Communist Russia and white-ruled South Africa. Both countries vehemently deny that there are any contacts at all between them. But a top executive of South Africa's leading gold and diamond mining corporation was spotted recently at the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. What was he doing there? And was his visit part of an unthinkable secret partnership? Michael Cockerell investigates the secret world of gold and diamonds and the strange bedfellows it makes.

with Richard Baker Weatherman

starring
Paul Newman , George Kennedy
Sentenced to two years' imprisonment with a Southern chain-gang, Luke Jackson soon becomes a hero to his fellow prisoners. His toughness and disrespect for the ' system', carry him through a series of adventures - including two escape attempts. But eventually the guards break his spirit ... or do they?
Superstar Newman gives one of his most vivid portrayals as Luke, superbly supported by Kennedy in his Oscar-winning role as Dragline.
Screenplay by DONN PEARCE and FRANK R. PIERSON Produced by GORDON CARROLL Directed by STUART ROSENBERG Films: page 14

A series of eight programmes for parents.
3: Becoming a Reader
How do children learn to read? This programme tries to show how the vital skills of reading are acquired, and what parents can do to help.
Producer JENNY ROGERS