Story: "Grotty and the Plumbing" by Catherine Forrest
Presenters this week Sarah Long, Jon Glover

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.0 pm)
(Colour)

Introduced by Patrick O'Brien

A series of five films on how the EEC affects our everyday lives.

Faced with rising food prices, how will ordinary consumers benefit from the Common Market - and how can they make themselves-heard in Brussels?

Champions of Crown Green Bowling compete for the BBC2 Masters Trophy
Second Quarter-final: Ken Johnson (Yorkshire) v Noel Burrows (Lancashire)
A keen match can be expected from these two players. Burrows won the Waterloo last year and Johnson has won the Yorkshire Merit.
Introduced by Stuart Hall from the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool
(Manchester)

Starring Ben Murphy as Jones and Roger Davis as Smith
with guest stars Glen Corbett, Frank Converse, Christine Belford, Mark Holly

Smith and Jones are caught in crossfire and all seems lost for them until ranch owner Mark Alcott arrives on the scene and helps to drive off the gunmen. Feeling alive and extremely grateful our heroes offer Mark their services and immediately become involved in a fierce range war.

A duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell, Cyd Hayman, Peter Alliss and Frank Muir, Elaine Stritch, Barry Foster
Referee Robert Robinson
(Manchester)

Acupuncture works in the Orient but can it work here? For years the fringe medics have said 'yes': the establishment 'no.' But attitudes are changing.
Extraordinary film from China shows how acupuncture is used there as an anaesthetic for major surgery and as a cure for illness. Equally extraordinary is the film of some of the very first attempts in Britain to evaluate acupuncture scientifically.
If acupuncture is all that it seems to be, is it time we took it seriously?

"Particularly fascinating" (Daily Mail)

by Eric Berger
A season of six plays from Birmingham by new writers.

'Two million years wasted making leather bags. For what? For what? There's more to life.' Harry Ravitz suddenly sees the world in a new light.

Edwin Mullins looks at six unusual London Museums

It was started by a Victorian tea tycoon with a habit of picking things up on his eastern travels. As his collection grew he housed it in a vast 'art nouveau' building in Forest Hill. Now the Horniman is one of the most extensive and certainly one of the oddest museums in London: it's about Man, his environment, and the roots of civilisation.

Presented by David Holmes with Peter Dorling
Weather

Tonight's programme is presented by The Arts Association
A panel of leading teachers and professionals answer questions on stage training.