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(Shown last Friday)

(Colour)

A digest of the news of the week plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear.
with Michael De Morgan

(Colour)

Weather

In any city in the country you will find destitute alcoholics - meths drinkers. What sort of life do they lead? Why are they there?
Commentary spoken by Leo McKern.

(First shown on BBC1)

Where there's mud, there's wealth if you're an eider duck or an avocet. And there's more mud in the Wadden Sea (the shallow edge of the North Sea fringing Holland, Germany and Denmark) than anywhere else in Europe. Millions of birds, sea farmers and jet setters are competing for the black treasure.
The 'wealth' is the hoard of plants and tiny creatures that live within the mud, and are food for their bigger neighbours. How do worms that build snares of sand, blizzards of probing avocets, and the technology of fishermen make the rich economy work? How are tourism and pollution from the distant factories along the Rhine interfering with the balance?

(from Bristol)
(Colour)

by Jack Goetz
starring Ronnie Barker
and featuring Joan Sims and Prunella Scales

You read of people being forcibly fed - but forcibly starved!

(Colour)

"I'm past 70 and I haven't arrived yet - Thank God"
A film in praise of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) and his music, with words from Poldi Gerhard, Sir William Glock, Rae Jenkins, Raymond Raikes and the composer himself and music from Julian Bream, London Sinfonietta conducted by David Atherton

(David Atherton appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
(Colour)

by Terence Brady and Charlotte Bingham

'Do you ever get the feeling that it's all slipping away?'
But Leonard is too concerned with the imminent destruction of the environment to realise that his wife's anguished question heralds a more immediate threat to his way of life.

My Choice: page 5

The first of a new series of six programmes starring America's chart-topping singer-songwriter
With special guest David Essex
featuring Bill and Taffy
Pan's People
The Instructors of the Army School of Physical Training
Alyn Ainsworth and his Orchestra

Country roads take him home: page 5

Weather

with William Rushton, John Wells, Clive James and guests John German and Harvey Matusow