A See-Saw programme
ALISON CHRISTIE-MURRAY , JOHN DRY-
DEN, JILL SHAKESPEARE and GLEN STUART take a look at God's world. DODO visits the island of Iona and tells how St Columba brought the news about Jesus to Scotland.
Script editor R. T. BROOKS Director MIKE HEALEY
Producer DAVID BROWN
Executive producer STEPHEN WHITTLE
A magazine for Asian viewers
Director KRISHAN GOULD
Producer MAhENDRA KAUL BBC Birmingham
The fourth of ten case studies in multi-cultural education for discussion by teachers.
Thousands of children in many parts of the country speak, and often also read, languages other than English. What is the case for ' mother tongue' teaching? This film illustrates practice at primary and secondary schools which support the bilingualism of children whose community languages include Punjabi, Italian and Urdu.
Director TOM ROBERTS
Producer JOHN TWITCHIN
For discussion leader's notes, send large sae (20p), to Multi-cultural Education[address removed] Book, Multi-cultural Education, £3.75, from retailers or direct from BBC Publications, 35 Marylebone High Street, London W1M 4AA
A series of five films for
International Year of Disabled People.
4: A Feisty Group of People
Among the more interesting - and provocative - modern organisations set up to promote the cause of disabled people is the Center for Independent Living, Berkeley, California ... Film editor LUIS ESPAÑA
Written and produced by GORDON CROTON
A weekly programme for people with hearing problems. News, views, and entertainment made more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers by subtitles and sign language. This week:
Unemployment in Great Britain Introduced by MAGGIE WOOLLEY and MARTIN COLVILLE
Produced by EDDIE MONTAGUE
A 24-part television and radio course for beginners in French. Programme 4 with CHRISTIAN BRUMELL as Michel Directed by TERRY DOYLE
Produced by TONY ROBERTS
(Ensemble radio programme on Sundays at 5.30 pm and Thursdays at 11.0 pm on Radio 4 VHF)
Books 1 and 2 (same title), £2.25 each; records 1 and 2, £2.19 each; cassettes 1 and 2, £2.99 each, from retailers
or how to enjoy drinking
A series of five programmes At the bar - BRIAN TRUEMAN
3: Is Your Bevvy Holding You?
Comments from Scottish drinkers.
Producer DAVID CORDINGLEY
The fortnightly look at the people, issues and places that are making the religious news, with Barry Lynch and Sally Magnusson Film reports from home and abroad. In the studio, interviews, discussions and reviews of the latest in books, music and the visual arts, and Newsdesk with Rosemary Hartill.
Director PAUL LOOSLEY
Producers LIZ NEESON , JOHN WILCOX
Editor STEPHEN WHITTLE. BBC Manchester In association with LELLA PRODUCTIONS PLC
in Cat and Mermouse
Decision at Los Robles Little Joe stands alone against a town in a fight to save his badly wounded father's life from a man seeking vengeance.
Written and directed by MICHAEL LANDON
The last of 11 programmes
Mickey Mouse 's unusual symphony is a smashing success. Goofy offers some unconventional instruction on horsemanship; Donald and Pluto struggle with a temperamental speedboat with a mind of its own.
A WALT DISNEY production
with Michael Palin
The second of seven travel films.
As a boy Michael Palin spent hours on Sheffield Midland Station train spotting. Now he fulfils every enthusiast's dream - a journey from Euston to Kyle of Lochalsh. Flying Scotsman, Mallard, Black Fives, Deltics... he meets them all.
"A visual treat" (DAILY MAIL)
BBC Manchester Book (same title) £9.95, from retailers
Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
Kenneth Kendall ; Weather
by CHARLES DICKENS , dramatised in 12 parts by James Andrew Hall
starring Gerry Sundquist as Pip
5: Pip has begun his new life. He has made a good friend, a dangerous enemy - and has had a strange encounter at the house of Mr Jaggers.
Music composed by PAUL READE
Lighting PETER BOOTH, BOB CHAPLIN Script editor TERRANCE DICKS Designer MICHAEL EDWARDS Producer BARRY LETTS Director JULIAN AMYES
Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
Presented by Jimmy Savile, OBE
A series of ten programmes which shows how many serious child accidents are preventable.
House fires can be terrifying and when children are left unattended at home the results are often tragic. Jimmy Savile points out the dangers of hot irons, electric and gas fires, matches and bonfires.
(A free booklet (same title) can be obtained by sending your name and address on a postcard to: Play It Safe!, [address removed], or, in Scotland: Network [address removed])
from Cartmel
Tonight's Songs of Praise comes from the beautiful Priory Church of Cartmel in Cumbria. The Priory was originally founded in 1190 and nestles in a picturesque valley to the south of the lakes. Geoffrey Wheeler meets some of the people of the valley including Malcolm Illingworth. the local vet, and Sister Veronica Mary , a young nun whose order first came to Cartmel almost 800 years ago.
Local choirs and congregations have come to Cartmel Priory to sing their choice of hymns conducted by Cartmel's vicar, The Rev Derrick Stiff.
The spacious firmament on high (Addison s): 0 thou who earnest from above (Hereford): We love the place 0 God (Quam dilecta); Holy, holy, holy (Nicaeac Be thou my vision (Slane); When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham); Living Lord: We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda) Organist DAVID SHINGLER Film director RALPH ROLLS Producer STEPHEN WHITTLE
Series producer RAYMOND SHORT
with Magnus Magnusson
Four contestants from the South of England are assembled on the Quarter Deck at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. Katherine Davies (department store buyer-manager)
Life of Queen Mary, Consort of George V
John Hill
(retired colonial administrator) Thuggee in India Connaire Kensit
(polytechnic lecturer)
History of China from 1850 John Pretty (miller)
Air War in Europe 1939-45
Director ANTONIA CHARLTON Producer ROGER MACKAY
by Bob Baker
Starring John Nettles
with Cecile Paoli and Terence Alexander
and featuring Prunella Scales, Jack Galloway and Sean Arnold
When the hot potato from Paris slips through his grasp, Jim Bergerac is in for a roasting. But can he save someone else on the island from being mashed?
Book (same title) paperback £1.25 available 5 November, hardback £6.25 available 10 December, from retailers
starring
Showdown at San Angelo J.R. uses Miss Ellie in an attempt to get back his son.
Written by LEONARD KATZMAN Director IRVING J. MOORE
with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather
Five programmes about self-help and mutual aid in Britain.
3: Another Way of Working
Twenty-one people, faced with redundancy, take over their factory and win a £3i-million order. The programme also shows groups of glaziers, secretaries, bicycle mechanics and knitters who have found another way of working-in co-operatives.
Assistant producer JOHN BROOKE Producer CHARLES PASCOE