6.40 Problems of Pollution

7.5 The Balby Street Kids

7.30 Childhood in Victorian Literature

Story: Mr Plum 's Paradise Written and illustrated by ELISA TRIMBY
Presenters
CAROL LEADER, DON SPENCER
Pianist RICHARD BROWN v JOHN ANDERSON
Written and directed by NICK WILSON Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATt

4.55 Science and Belief: Fontenelle

5.20 Electrolytic Chlorine Cells

6.10 An Abattoir for Ibadan?

6.35 The Einstein Tower

with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

A series of ten programmes presented by BOB SYMES-SCHUTZMANN 1: Something for Everyone
Take your pick from a selection of matchstick, card, wood, metal and plastic models. Build a balsa and tissue rubber-driven model aircraft.
Studio director JOHN RICKWORD
Producer PETER RIDING

Presented by Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler
With Richard Kershaw
Newsreader Richard Whitmore

from Clacks Farm
One of Arthur Billitt 's winter tasks has been the construction of a raised garden for disabled persons. Arthur White , Research Gardener from the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, discusses its planting and shows suitable tools for use from a wheel chair. Peter Seabrook plants a hanging basket, and, with Arthur, attends to seasonal work in the greenhouse and garden.
Producer BARRIE EDGAR. BBC Birmingham

A Yen to Invest
The Japanese have been exporting more and more goods to Britain. But now they are going one step further. Several Japanese companies are now investing directly in Britain and manufacturing their goods right here.
Bill Kerr Elliott reports from Sony's television factory in South Wales. What is it like for the Welsh to be working for the Japanese and can they produce the same results as the parent company in Japan?
Producer COLIN HART Editor PAUL ELLIS

BBC2 Snooker Championship
'Play Off' - with the Grand Final just one week away, this is a special frame to decide third place in the 1977 Pot Black Championship. Featuring the two losing semi-finalists Cliff Thorburn, Canada against Willie Thorne, Leicester

Although their quest to win the Pot Black Trophy is ended, Thorburn and Thorne have another opportunity to gain one more victory, and the Highest Break prize is still to be played for. Introduced by Alan Weeks

BBC Birmingham

Book (same title), 70p, from bookshops

A series of documentary films beginning with three programmes which portray the lives of women whose husbands have been sent to prison.
Prisoners' Wives
1:Eileen
Eileen is at the beginning. Her husband, John, is on remand inside Pentonville awaiting trial at the Old Bailey for robbery, possession of a firearm, and resisting arrest. If he pleads guilty, he could get seven years. If he fights the case and is convicted, he could go down for 15.
In the days up to and during the trial, when she herself is called to give evidence, Eileen talks of her hopes and fears for herself, for her survival, and her children's survival. There is little doubt that John will pay his debt to society. But as an addendum to his sentence, will go the unspoken sentence on his innocent wife and three children - years of severance from a breadwinner, a father and a husband.
Film cameramen
KEITH TAYLOR , TONY PIGRCE-ROBERTS Film editor PETER GORDON Producer ROGER MILLS
Director REX BLOOMSTEIN

by GEORGE MOORE
The BBC2 Serial
Dramatised in four parts by DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE
Part 1
When Esther Waters enters service as kitchen maid at the Wood-view racing stable, she is befriended by two people: the owner's wife Mrs Barfield, who, like Esther, is a devout member of the Plymouth Brethren, and William Latch, whose regard for Esther is not quite so religious.

Weather

Second of a series of six programmes
Without preamble, without introduction - the incomparable Sarah Vaughan
Producer DON SAYER

DEREK JACOBI reads
April the Sixteenth by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN