6.45 Technology: UK Power
7.10 The Black English Case
7.35 A Year with Three Children
8.0 Oceanography: Currents
8.25 Chemistry: Transition Elements
(to 8.50)
Floella Benjamin and Fred Harris say Hallo Again with songs, games and play ideas. Story: Pennies for the Dog by ANN THWAITE
Illustrated by MARGERY GILL
Musicians CHRIS WALKER. PETER BEAMENT Director SHEILA FRASER
Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE (R)
David Yip and Alison Christie-Murray with stories of two peaceful people from very different backgrounds. Producer MARTIN HUGHES
Executive producer DAVID BROWN BBC Manchester (R)
The series in which viewers are united in prayer and fellowship.
Tony Phelan joins the Bentley family in Plymstock near Plymouth as the programme continues to reflect on the Easter message. The speaker is Sheila Cassidy from St Luke's Hospice. Director ROGER HUTCHINGS Series producer DAVID CRAIG
with Azmat Bajwa
Drug abuse in Britain is on the increase. Although it is unlikely that drug-taking can be eliminated altogether, it is hoped that the increase in the number of addicts can be reduced. Most at risk are teenagers and schoolchildren. Dr Iftikhar Akhtar , Head of the Regional Addiction Unit at AH Saint's Hospital,
Birmingham, explains the dangers of addiction and the aims of the recently-launched 'Just Say No' campaign. Music is provided by Talet Aziz
Producer WASEEM MAHMOOD
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill
Presented by Sneh Gupta
The family quiz show which helps speakers of English as a second language to improve their understanding and use of English.
With guests Sheila Chitnis Rula Lenska. Ian McCaskill Mario Renzullo
Research CAROLE MONTAGUE Director JOHN M. A. LANE
Producer JEREMY ORLEBAR
For free leaflet. How to Use Switch On to English, send sae (12" 9') to [address removed]
Five films on modern France
This town in the Alps was a quiet, provincial backwater, known only for glove-making and the magnificence of its mountain location. By the mid-60s it had become not only the site for the 1968 Winter Olympics, but a blueprint for the future.
(R)
Presented by William Woollard
Britain is proud of its industrial inventiveness - we've always had good ideas, but we need more. Together with the Industrial Society, this programme launches a national competition to find the Best Company Suggestion Scheme and the Best Suggestion of the Year.
Compare the scheme at your workplace with two Swedish examples at Volvo and Eka. The top prize is a week for two in the USA.
Info: page 69
Six programmes on how microtechnology can help disabled people to live more independent lives. 5: Working
Kenny Matheson and Pat Magee both work from home, thanks to the chip; Rhoda Carratt is blind and holds down a good secretarial job with the help of enabling microtechnology; and a new information system on computer finds the best aid to help a person work. Producer ANNA JACKSON
Director CATHERINE ROBINS (R)
For booklet send sae (28p) to [address removed]
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
The last in a series of seven programmes for the young motorcyclist
At St Lawrence's School in Bradford-on-Avon they have motorcycle training on the timetable. Eugenie Verney and Neil Walker round off the series with visits to St Lawrence's and to the Country Training Scheme at Malvern - two courses which prove that training can be fun as well as useful.
(R)
Book, £1.50 from booksellers
with Philip Wrixon Dan Cherrington Leslie Cottington and Claire Powell Producers
KEN POLLOCK. MARTIN SMALL
Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
with David Dimbleby
Starting with News Summary The weekly look at what matters in politics.
'My aim,' says
David Dimbleby , 'is to get at the truth behind the contentious issues of the moment, through reasoned discussion with those at the heart of events.' Producers
PHILIP CAMPBELL. ELLIE UPDALE Studio director VICTOR MELLENY Editor PAUL NORRIS
by Liane Aukin and Jane Hollowood.
'...however much love you've got, it isn't going to pay the bills'.
(Ceefax Subtitles)
starring
New Man
Following his experience at Nevada State Prison, Ben paroles one of the inmates, Griff King , and takes him to the Ponderosa to start a new life. But Griff soon discovers that a dark past is not easily forgotten....
Written by JACK B. SOWARDS Directed by LEO PENN
[Starring] Gregory Peck - continuing a season of films starring one of the great names of Hollywood. Today with Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr
While his parents struggle to scratch a living from the land they have cleared in the shrub wilderness of the Florida backwoods, young Jody longs for a pet of his own. This simple story of a boy and his pet fawn is one of the most moving and beautiful films of its kind and earned Claude Jarman Jr an Oscar for his performance as Jody.
Films: page 14
Introduced by Hugh Scully This week's programme comes from Hull, the largest fishing port in the United Kingdom.
The experts come up with a fine haul. including a grand collection of early 1920s toys with values up to il,000, a late 1800s local picture depicting shipping on the Humber, and a bonheur-dujpur worth £4,000. Director ROY CHAPMAN Producer ROBIN DRAKE BBC Bristol
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
with Jan Leeming Weather News
with Thora Hird
Today is Rogation Sunday. Thora visits Geoffrey Smith in his home overlooking the North Yorkshire moors to talk about God in nature. Thora also reads viewers' letters and plays hymns they've chosen about creation, including many beautiful harvest and seaside favourites.
The church's one foundation
(Aurelia); Song of Caedmon; God is of mine inheritance (Belmont); For the harvest of the sea (St George); Will your anchor hold; Make me a channel of your peace: Spirit of God (Intercessor); How great thou art; Eternal Father (Melita)
Director VALETTA STALLABRASS Producer ELIZABETH GORT
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
starring Tony Hancock
featuring Sidney James
Sidney Balmoral James forgets a number of essential household chores, and Anthony Aloysius Hancock attempts to enforce economy measures at 23 Railway Cuttings, East Cheam.
(R) (Ceefax subtitles)
Videos, The Blood Donor BBCV/B 7004, The Lift BBCV/B 7034, The Bowmans BBCV/B 7035, The Radio Ham BBCV/B 7036, from retailers
by Agatha Christie
The second of two parts dramatised by T.R. Bowen
Starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
with Fabia Drake as Miss Henderson, Peter Davison as Lance Fortescue, Tom Wilkinson as Det Insp Neele, Clive Merrison as Percival Fortescue, Stacy Dorning as Adele Fortescue, Selida Cadell as Mary Dove
To Miss Marple the connection with the nursery rhyme is all too clear - as is the identity of the next victim. She sets off at once for Yew Tree Lodge.
(R)
Theme music on a single, RESL 153 from retailers
(Ceefax subtitles)
with Magnus Magnusson Four more contenders do friendly battle for the title of Mastermind 1986 at the London Hospital Medical College in Whitechapel. James McLeod
(chartered secretary)
History of Albania from 1945 Judith Brooks
(educational administrator) History of the RAF 1939-45 Peter Cains
(research scientist)
Life and works of Monteverdi
1567-1643
Timothy Stewart (translator)
Life and works of Dante Alighieri
Lighting DENNIS BUTCHER
Assistant producer MARY CRAIG Director DAVID MITCHELL Producer PETER MASSEY
with Jan Leeming Weather News
Presented by Esther Rantzen
Consumer advice, investigations, misprints, mishaps and real-life humour drawn from the letters you send in every week. With Mollie Sugden and reporters
Gavin Campbell Adrian Mills
Grant Baynham , Doc Cox Director BOB MARSLAND
Producer ESTHER RANTZEN Editor JOHN MORRELL
In the last programme of the current series,
Sheila Walsh and Alvin Stardust welcome
Georgie Fame , just back from a tour of Sweden,
Russ and Taff live in concert from Texas, and the London Community Gospel Choir singing one of their own best-loved songs. Music associate DAVE COOKE Vision mixer SUE COLLINS
Series producer JIM MURRAY
The plants grown in our gardens are some of the richest and most varied in the world, but very few of them are native to this country. So where do they come from? Who brought them? How have we changed them? Delphiniums
There are few plants which have contributed more to the beauty of our gardens than the delphinium.
Rising majestically above all contenders, it's hardly surprising to hear Geoffrey Smith describe it as 'the queen of the herbaceous border'.
Assistant producer ERICA GRIFFITHS Producer BRIAN DAVIES (R) Book. £11.25 from booksellers
starring
Whattya Think it's There For? When Rhoda's mother discovers that Joe's business is going bankrupt, she insists that the couple ask Rhoda's father for a loan. It is a request which leads to surprises all round.
Written by COLEMAN MrrcHELL and GEOFFREY NEIGHER
Directed by JERRY BELSON (R)
