"Now Everybody Loves Woodpecker" by Mabel Watts

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.0 pm)
(Colour)

Black Holes are even more perplexing than the quasars and pulsars which shook astronomy in the 60s. They mark a new era in astronomy and affect the fundamentals of physics.

This lecture by Dr Dennis Sciama recorded at the University of St Andrews, is the first of an annual series by the Royal Astronomical Society presented in collaboration with the Open University.

Thinking about apples: page 5

A skilled man is fired and his workmates down tools. The senior shop steward is unsympathetic; the union official advises a return to work, but the men threaten to strike. What does a shop steward do in this sort of situation? An examination of his responsibilities during a dispute.

Introduced by Patrick O'Brien

America's ambassador of country music sings and introduces guests of differing musical sounds.
featuring Olivia Newton-John, The Hillsiders, Roy Warhurst
Recorded at Cesar's Club, Luton

Reporters: Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Jack Pizzey, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Big Smile, Please
The Costa Brava might be just as cheap these days, but for a lot of people, there's still nothing to beat the good old traditional holiday camp.
In the week John Pitman visited a holiday camp at Selsey in Sussex, the place was booked out - 1,200 gathered together, all out to enjoy themselves. Well, most of them. You can't please all the people all the time.
There were boys looking for girls, girls looking for boys. Confident people who mix easily; shy people who don't. There were families who come every year and those who had never been before - and some who won't come again.
And always there, ever ready to make you smile, were the Blue-coats, personality-plus people: stars in their own little galaxy, but always hoping that some day someone will spot them, give them a break and take them away from it all.
Releasing a nightingale: page 4

by Thomas Hardy
Dramatised by Dennis Potter
Starring Paul Rogers as Mr Halborough
with John Hurt as Joshua Halborough, David Troughton as Cornelius Halborough and Lynne Frederick as Rosa Halborough

Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers' drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability.

The third of six programmes.

A pop group, their girl friends, agents, promoters and managers, all live together in noisy harmony in a tumbledown cottage in the wilds of Norfolk. Trundling their old bus around the country, playing for nothing when the spirit moves them, they bring to their music a kind of togetherness that appeals to thousands of young people everywhere.

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore

Britain's biggest motor sporting event, the Daily Mirror RAC Rally, ended this afternoon at York after a five-day battle of speed between the best drivers of Britain, Finland, France, Italy, West Germany and Sweden

Barrie Gill and Judith Jackson, with outside broadcast cameras, cover today's final speed tests on the Yorkshire Moors, the finish at York Racecourse, and the prize-giving and Rally Ball in the city centre tonight.

Presented by David Holmes with Peter Dorling; Weather

Tony Bilbow presents a round-up of what's going on in the film world, including a preview of Paper Moon, starring Ryan O'Neal and his daughter Tatum. Philip Jenkinson talks to William Perry, Director of Music at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, about the piano scoring of restored silent movies with illustrations from Orphans of the Storm (1922) and What Price Glory (1927).