A See-Saw programme by JULIE HOLDER Quiet Please Music
PAUL READE
Animation DAVID kellehar
Producer david YATES
Who's There?
ALISON CHRISTIE-MURRAY PAUL GREENWOOD and CHRISTOPHER LLLLICRAP with stories from God's wide world
Script editor ROGER HUTCHINGS Director SID WADDELL Producer DAVID BROWN
A service of worship in which the unseen viewing congregation is linked in Bible reading, prayer, meditation and the breaking and sharing of bread
Today's service comes from the home of some viewers in Brixton. south London. The preacher is PASTOR ESME BESWICK.
'This is the day which the Lord has made! We shall rejoice and be glad in it.'
Readings. Isaiah 40, w 3-5; John 1, w 9-14
Today's hymn: My faith looks up to thee (Harlan)
Prayers R. T. BROOKS
Photographer PETER LANE Guitarist ERIC HILL
Director Raymond SHORT Producer JOHN NEWBURY
Are the Asian communities' health care needs different in any way and if so how can the available resources in any area be managed to achieve the desired results? In today's programme these are the questions put to a doctor who participated in a recent workshop on the subject.
In addition krishan GOULD presents a film report on the activities of the ethnic support services of the Education Development Centre in Walsall. Music is provided by KAMAL BAROT who sings a ghazal.
Executive producer ashok RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill
A series of 12 programmes 8: Equations
Presented by NORMAN GOWAR (Open University)
Director Patrick titley
Producer ROBERT CLAMP
Book (same title) £3.95 from booksellers
A series of programmes which aim to help mentally-handicapped people get more out of life.
Presented by BRIAN RIX
Let's Go and Do Some Gardening Indoors or outdoors
Assistant producer ROSANNA HIBBERT Producer CHARLES PASCOE
A series of 20 programmes for beginners in Italian, featuring specially shot documentary film. Presented by LILLY LEMBO LAMBERT and ENRICO VERDECCHIA 9: Cosa prendiamo?
Ordering a meal and sampling some of the local specialities.
Film director LIBBY HALLIDAY Studio director PAULA GILDER
Producer MADDALENA FAGANDINI
A series of 20 programmes 8: Likes and Dislikes
Episode 3 of Goodbye, Summer Presented by TANYA FEIFER
GEORGE FEIFER , EDWARD OCHAGAVIA TATYANA VEDENEEVA
With GALYA VENEVITINOVA
SLAVA BOGACHOV , 8LAVA BARANOV MARINA TROSHINA, IVAN 8AVKIN KLAVDIA KOZLYONKOVA
Film editor RICHARD SIDWELL
Producer TERRY DOYLE
Book (same title) £5.50; records (pack o/ three) £10.64; cassettes (pack of three) £9.49 from retailers
A series of ten programmes presented by Delia Smith.
A BBC videobook and Laservision videodisc, Delia Smith's Home Baking (BBCV 1009), from retailers
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.
Introduced by MAGGIE WOOLLEY PADDY LADD and JOHN LEE
Produced by PETER DUNKLEY
Magazine for the deaf on Ceefax page 169
A series of ten programmes. CHRIS SERLE, IAN MCNAUGHT-DAVIS and GILL NEVILL continue their exploration of the world of information science.
9: In Control
Directors FRANK ASH, MATT BONEY
Producer PAUL KRIWACZEK
(Repeated on BBC2 tomorrow at 3.5 pm)
featuring the news and views, politics and practice of those involved with the land. with PHILIP WRIXON
DAN CHERRINGTON and BARRY WILSON
Producers PHILIP HICKS , KEN POLLOCK Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
Weather for farmers JACK SCOTT
Yankee Doodle Daffy Duck Soup to Nuts
The Sovereign Furs Ice Figure Skating
Championships of Great Britain from Solihull Ice Rink Britain's leading figure skaters compete for the right to call themselves British Champion, which will guarantee them a place in the forthcoming European and World Championships.
The World and European Ice Dance Champions JAYNE TORVILL and CHRISTOPHER DEAN will be skating some of their sparkling exhibition routines.
Commentator ALAN WEEKS
Producer DAVID KENNING
in The Old Boy Network
Last month one of Britain s most loved entertainers died at the age of 82. This afternoon, as a tribute, we repeat a special programme that Arthur Askey made in 1978, talking of his 60 years in the world of radio, music-hall, film and television. Very few people can remember a time when Arthur Askey wasn't part of Britain's comic furniture. Recorded at Westminster Theatre.
Producer DONALD SAYER
(A tribute to Arthur Askey can be heard on Radio 2 on Thursday at 7.30)
with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman
by P. C. WREN dramatised in eight episodes by ALISTAIR BELL with 6: Sergeant-Major Lejaune now believes Beau is carrying a valuable jewel, and is determined to have it. A first attempt at theft is a failure. Then Lejaune announces that the squad is to be posted to Fort Zinderneuf where the Geste brothers will be in his power
Music composed and conducted by STEPHEN DEUTSCH
Make-up by JAN NETHERCOT
Script editor TERRANCE DICKS Designer PAUL JOEL
Producer BARRY Letts
Director DOUGLAS camfield
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
from Germany and Liverpool Cathedral.
Geoffrey Wheeler went to Germany to meet members of the British Forces. Their relatives, together with representatives of some of Britain's most famous and historic regiments, regular and territorial, and the RAF, have come together in Liverpool Cathedral to sing the hymns chosen by those serving in Germany.
Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Rep-ton); Jerusalem; Lord of the world (Melita); Our God reigns: And can it be? (Sagina); Stand up. stand up for Jesus (Morning Light); At the name of Jesus (Evelyns); For all the saints (Sine Nomine)
Conductor Capt c. R. c. GARRITY , LTCL psm Green Howards Organist IAN TRACEY
Producer JIM MURRAY. BBC Manchester
Starring Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman
with Timothy Dalton, Helen Morse
December, 1926. A new mystery-thriller, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by a relatively new writer, Agatha Christie, is the toast of literary London. But Mrs Christie's personal life is in ruins. Her husband wants a divorce so that he can marry his secretary. Suddenly and mysteriously Agatha Christie disappears. What may have happened during the next 11 days is as suspenseful as anything she wrote.
Films: p 13
(First showing on British television)
(Witness for the Prosecution, the film of Agatha Christie's play, can be seen on BBC2 on Thursday at 6.35 pm)
with Jan Leeming; Weather
with Esther Rantzcn
Reporters Bill Buckley
Gavin Campbell , Michael Groth and at the That's Life Newsdesk Doc Cox and Joanna Monro
Director amis fox
Producer Esther RANTZEN Editor GORDON watts
Eric Robson presents a new magazine programme which explores the moral and religious issues in the week's headlines.
This week Janet Cohen reports on the plight of the deserted wives of Anglican clergymen; Rosemary Hartill, the BBC's religious affairs correspondent, begins her regular analysis of the religious news; Bryan Appleyard reviews Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi.
(Ben Kingsley, who plays the role of Gandhi, is interviewed in Film 82, tomorrow at 10.45 pm)
Too Young to Vote
Is there any point getting involved in politics before you're old enough to vote? A sceptical 16 Up group meets three young activists: Louise James , Young Socialist. fighting alientation in Bristol;
Mark Jones , Young Liberal, fighting racism in Leicester;
Nick Robinson , Young Conservative, fighting for freedom of choice in Macclesfield.
The Last Man on the Moon
Less than four years after Neil Armstrong made his 'one small step ...', Commander Eugene Cernan became the last man on the moon. In December 1972 when Challenger, the lunar module of Apollo 17, lifted off from the moon carrying Commander Cernan and his colleague Jack Schmitt , the first phase of lunar exploration was at an end. Now, ten years later, Eugene Cernan relives his experiences of that epic 13-day trip, and talks to Patrick Moore about what he believes the Apollo missions mean to mankind.
Photography jim peirson Sound RON KEIGITrLEY
Film editor keith RAVEN
Producer PIETER morpurco