A See -Saw programme
In the recent revival of interest in the days of the British Raj, nothing has caught the imagination more than the extraordinary lifestyle of the Maharajahs and Nawabs who ruled the 565 Princely States of India. It was a lifestyle created by tradition, ceremony and fabulous wealth. Charles Allen , author of the best-selling Plain Tales from the Raj and whose new book
Lives of the Indian Princes was published last week, is one of the studio guests.
This week's film report looks at how polio victim
Attiya Mirza is learning to cope with her handicap.
Pankaj Udhas sings a ghazal. Producer WASEEM MAHMOOD
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill
French for beginners in a series of 15 programmes.
You don't need any French to shop in a French supermarket. But with a few simple phrases you can enjoy the colour of the local market or the epicerie. Carolle Rousseau and Patrick Simpson-Jones show how.
Book, £5.25, two cassettes or three records, and teachers' notes, £2.50 from booksellers
David Yip and Alison Christie-Murray with stories of two peaceful people from very different backgrounds.... Script editor NOEL VINCENT Director CELIA THOMSON Producer MARTIN HUGHES
Executive producer DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester
Sunday Worship
You are invited to join with your fellow viewers for half an hour of meditation and prayer for each other and for the world, as portrayed in the newspapers and on television. Today's theme: Giving.
Speaker, The Rev Professor Charles Moule , live from his East Sussex home.
New Testament: 2 Corinthians 8, vv 8-9: 13-15
Gospel: St Luke 6, vv 37-38 Hymn: My God, I love thee (Solomon)
Production assistant JAN PRYNNE Director JOHN HARMAR. SMITH Producer SIMON HAMMOND
Series producer ELIZABETH GORT
A weekly magazine for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, with subtitles and sign language.
Introduced by Maggie Woolley and Clive Mason
Produced by CHARLES PASCOE
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Six comics explore the roots of their humour.
3: Roy Hudd
In tonight's film Roy Hudd goes back to his native Croydon and stages an improbable 'Old boys' reunion' with some of the lads who were with him in a Boys Club concert party. Film editor TERRY GABELL Producer JANE OLIVER
Community Programme Unit
with Philip Wrixon
Dan Cherrington , Barry Wilson Producers
PHILIP HICKS , KEN POLLOCK
Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
1.23 Weather for farmers
IAN MCCASKILL
with Mavis Nicholson
A series of conversations which try to bridge the generation gap.
1: George Mann, retired welder, sees today's young people as vandals and not interested in work.
Alison Carter , 19. and Colin Luter , 21, describe how they see the world.
Film editor SHELAGH BRADY Producer IAN WOOLF
An Oscar-winning cartoon Directed by CHUCK JONES
with Robert Lacey Spain: The Duchess of Medinaceli
Nine times a duchess, 18 times a marchioness, 19 times a countess, four times a viscountess - and 14 times a grandee of Spain; she owns 90 castles - or maybe 100; and she maintains her lifestyle on the profits of plastic leather.
Executive producer ADAM CLAPHAM Producer JOHN BIRD
A Baby for the Dukes
Returning to her childhood home Mary Lou Tomkins seeks refuge in Hazzard County. She is on the run from her father-in-law who wants her child, but Hazzard justice is more than likely to be on her side, even in spite of Boss Hogg ...
Written by si ROSE
Directed by HOLLINGSWORTH MORSE
Dramatised in seven parts by ALAN PLATER , from The Warden and Barchester Towers by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
4: Mrs Proudie, the new bishop's wife, is a masterful lady determined to change the Barchester tradition, in which she is ably abetted by the Bishop's chaplain,
Obadiah Slope. Battle lines have been drawn up.
Music composed and conducted by DEREK BOURGEOIS
Producer JONATHAN POWELL Directed by DAVID GILES *CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Moira Stuart ; Weatherman
from Northern Ireland celebrating the 60th Anniversary of BBC broadcasting in the Province.
Standing by the forbidding structure called the Peace Line that separates Catholic from Protestant in Belfast, Dr Colin Morris asks the question 'Are the churches really part of the solution to this problem, or are they part of the problem that is Northern Ireland?'
He talks to people whose faith refuses to be imprisoned by the past or conditioned by history.
And in Fisherwick Presbyterian Church in Belfast, religious divisions are forgotten as choirs of the Province sing their Songs of Praise.
"From all that dwell below the skies" (Lasst uns erfreuen); "Ye holy angels bright" (Darwall s 148th); "Lord of all hopefulness" (Slane); "There is a green hill far away" (Horsley); "It were my soul's desire" (Armagh); "Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire" (St Columba); "God of grace and God of glory" (Rhuddlan); "Father eternal, ruler of creation" (Old 124th)
BBC Northern Ireland
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One Good Turnover....
Written by GEOFF MCQUEEN
Professional poker players like Robby Box meet all sorts of opponents. When they lose, some get very upset....
Photography PAUL WHEELER Film editor RAY WINGROVE Producer TERENCE WILLIAMS Director JOHN GLENISTER
Moira Stuart ; Weatherman
Introduced by Humphrey Burton
Pennington's Chekhov is the story of an actor's obsession with one of the greatest playwrights that ever lived.
Tonight's film takes the form of a journey through the mind of Michael Pennington, one of this country's leading classical actors, as he discovers for himself unknown facets in the personality of Anton Chekhov. This imaginary journey from Japan, through Siberia, leads ultimately to the National Theatre in London where Pennington reveals his personal view of Chekhov. Plus a glimpse beneath the Dance Umbrella to encounter among others Mark Morris and Lar Lubovitch, some of the exciting talents assembled in Britain for the contemporary dance festival.
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Luis Palau is an Argentine evangelist. He's been called 'the new Billy Graham '. Over the past 17 years he has preached to five million people in 37 countries. This summer he's made a major effort to save British souls, leading a month-long crusade in London. Peter France follows Luis Palau through one of his big warm-up meetings at Wembley, examining his message and talking to those who claim it has changed their lives.