Story: "ToPo the Polar Bear" written by Peter Wiltshire

(Repeated BBC1, BBC Wales 4.20pm)

(Colour)

(to 19.00)

An introduction to the social sciences

Can we really believe what we see? And if not, why do we see what we see?
Introduced by Derek Hart
(Linked with Radio 3, Friday 7.0 pm)
(For publication see page 2)

with Peter Woods
Weather

In the race for today few of us spare enough time to listen - even to learn - from people who also know about yesterday, as they talk to Man Alive reporters

Reporters: Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

George Bernard Shaw's Black Girl searched for God in vain. The four black girls in tonight's programme came to this country bringing their own religions with them. To many people in this country the beliefs and practices of these girls appear foreign and inexplicable. The effect on the girls is to produce in their own lives a conflict of loyalties. The more they keep up with their English friends the further they move from their parents.

Prebhsaran is a Sikh. She lives in the close-knit Sikh community at Southall-but also, through school, the teenage world of music, and mini-skirts.
Vijay is Hindu, a career girl who works in community relations. Her job is to mix with people of all races and religions, but she still expects to marry a good Hindu, of the right family and the right caste.
Rehana is Muslim. Muslim women traditionally are kept in purdah. But Rehana runs, in Coventry, a club designed to bring Asian girls out of the confines of their homes.
Elaine lives in Smethwick. She is a Jamaican, but racial problems hardly touch her life. She is a Pentecostal Christian, and her time is fully occupied praying, and singing, and evangelising door-to-door.

All four girls, and many thousands like them in this country, are deciding what to accept and what to reject in our society - and working out their own morality.

Introduced by Jack Pizzey

Budgerigars, parrots, macaws, canaries and finches: chattering, singing, adding colour to our lives.
In tonight's programme a veterinary surgeon describes how to keep your birds happy.

(Colour)

with Mary Morris as Scotch Ellen, Paul Daneman as Vignoles, Jack Shepherd as Weaver, Michael Coles as Bacca Lank, Godfrey Quigley as Nicholson, Georgina Hale as Mary Ann

The story of the first woodhead tunnel, told through three people connected with its building.
[Repeat]

and Weather

from Sydney: fourth day
by Satellite
Recorded highlights of the day's play.
Presented by David Kenning and Denis Kelly in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission