6.25 Baroque Stringed Instruments6.50 Geophysical Techniques
7.15 Computing and Computers
7.40 Ethereal Fallacies?
8.5 Newton's Present-day Success
8.30 Stereochemistry: Conformational Analysis

A See-Saw programme

The Word - a Journey Through John's Gospel. The Man Born Blind from Trinity Methodist Church, Roath, Cardiff, conducted by the Minister, THE REV FRANK BRICE
Singer GARTH HEWITT. Preacher THE REV DR KENNETH GREET
Reading: John 9. w 1-11
Hymns: Ye servants of God (Laudate Domlnum); How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (St Peter ); Light of those whose dreary dwelling (Hyfrydol); 0 thou who earnest from above (Hereford) Sound ALLAN WILLIAMS Lighting CHRIS STMONS
TV presentation JOHN GERAINT. BBC Wales

As unemployment, old age and social difficulties are increasingly affecting individuals, couples and families, we talk to ROBERT MORLEY and ANILA CHADA of the Family Welfare Association.
Continuing the series on secondary education, this week the programme visits Hydesville Towers School and talks to the headmaster about private schooling. TARIQ LOHAR sings a Punjabi folk song about the saga of Sassi Punnu.
Executive producer ASHOE RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill

6: Geometry 11

Presenter BRIAN RIX Ten programmes to help mentally-handicapped people get more out of life.
9: Let's Be Safe at Home. Fire hazards, the bathroom, medicines
Assistant producer ANNE O'DWYER Producer CHARLES PASCOE
Notes for parents and teachers, 11.50 from BBC Publications, PO Box 234, London SEI 3TH

Twenty programmes for beginners in Italian, presented by LILLY LEMBO LAMBERT and ENRICO VERDECCHIA.
19: Parliamo un po'. A tour of Etruria and around Lake Bolsena.
Studio director PAULA GILDER Producer MADDALENA FAGANOINI
Book (same title), record and cassettes and notes for teachers available from bookshops or from BBC Publications

The 19th of 20 programmes
Producer TERRY DOYLE
Book (same title) £5.50, records f10.64, cassettes £9.49 from retailers

Smoked and Shellfish
Producer PETER RIDING

Introduced by MAGGIE WOOLLEY , PADDY LADD and JOHN LEE
Produced by PETER DUNKLEY
(Maggie Woolley is with Russell Harty on Thursday 9.0 pm, BBC2)

8: Everything under Control

Pink Lightning
Storky and Hatch
Pink in the Drink

by CHARLES DICKENS , dramatised in ten episodes by JAMES ANDREW HALL with and 8: Walter Gay's ship has been given up for lost, and Sol Gills has disappeared, leaving Captain Cuttle in charge of his shop.
Although she does not love him, Edith has accepted Mr Dombey's proposal of marriage.
Music by DUDLEY simpson
Costumes designed by JUNE HUDSON Script editor TERRANCE DICKS Designer RAYMOND LONDON Producer BARRY LETTS
Director RODNEY BENNETT
* Subtitles on Ceelax page 170

with Jan Leeming ; Weatherman

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore West Africa, once said to be the white man's grave, is now the white man's playground - one part of it, anyway. Cliff Michelmore reports from the Gambia.
The resort of Benidorm is growing in popularity as the location for long-stay winter holidays, especially among older people. Anne Gregg joined them earlier this month.
Visiting Munich for the famous Oktoberfest, Paul Hughes found himself in among the beer-drinkers and discovered that it is more of a family festival than he expected.
Executive producer tom SAVAGE Producer COLIN STRONG

The last of the present series by ROY CLARKE starring Bill Owen
Peter Sallls , Brian Wilde in The Arts of Concealment
Music RONNIE HAZLEHURST
Studio lighting RON BRISTOW Film cameraman MAX SAMETT Film editor MIKE ROBOTHAM Designer TIM GLEESON
Produced and directed by SYDNEY LOTTERBY
Nora Batty is a guest of Russell Harty on Thursday, BBC2, 9.0 pm
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 170

A series in ten parts starring
Wendy Craig as Nanny Barbara
9: Short Engagements by JILL HYEM with Romance, greatly intensified by the war, seems everywhere to be in the air. Barbara, isolated at first by thoughts of Sam, can only be an observer. But when the chief opponent to her latest plans for the future suddenly becomes an ally, she finds to her surprise that not even she is entirely immune.
Script editor JOAN CLARK
Music composed and conducted by GRANT HOSSACK
Designer MARY SPENCER Producer
BERNARD KRICHEFSKI Director PETER CREGEEN

with Magnus Magnusson
Tonight from one of Britain's s newest universities, Loughborough University of Technology.
Hilary Aslett (schoolteacher)
History of New South Wales 1788-1850 ,
Paul Brighton (research student) Life of W. E. Gladstone
Tom Chitty (bank manager)
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington , .
Isabelle Heward (schoolteacher)
British and American cinema since 1927
Director LAURENCE VULLIAMY Producer ROGER MACKAY

with Moira Stuart ; Weather

Eric Robson presents the magazine that looks at the religious issues of the week. Paul McDowell reports on Project Partnerships, which brings black and white Christians in Britain closer together.
Studio director FRANCES GIFFORD Producer JOHN wilcox Editor STEPHEN WHITTLE