A magazine aimed at helping Asian families to help themselves.
Today: music, TAJUNISSA HASNAIN, RAMA JOSHI and SHARANJIT SANDHU discuss the cultural/generation gap, followed by a story The Ant and the Bird.
Producer ASHOK RAMPAL
An Asian Unit presentation BBC Birmingham

A series of 26 programmes in Hindustani and English. The story of two Asian families living in Britain.

A Yesterday's Witness series of six programmes with women of the First World War.
5: We Are the Arsenal Girls
The Arsenal Girls were the women who worked at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich making shells and ammunition for the men in the trenches.
The elite were the girls in the 'Danger Buildings'. There they handled the really dangerous explosives, where the smallest stray spark might send the whole lot sky high. This is the story of six of those women who risked their lives daily to be Arsenal Girls. Narrator BENNY GREEN
They proved that women could not onlu do a man's work but also be as brave as men. (time OUT) Producer STEPHEN PEET
Director CHRISTOPHER COOK (Fridau: Three VAD's)

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

with Peter Alliss
A series of ten programmes for those who want to take up golf and for golfers who want to improve their game. And an opportunity for everyone to wateh top players demonstrate their skills. 5: The Short Game
PETER alliss and his four regular pupils are joined by guest professional BERNARD GALLACHER.
Producer GORDON MFNZIES. BBC Scotland

Presented by Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler with Richard Kershaw and David Sells Newsreader Angela Rippon

Champions of Crown Green Bowling compete for the BBC2 Masters Trophy The Final
Roy Price (Potteries) v
Dennis Mercer (Cheshire)
Giant-killer Roy Price has already had sensational wins both by 21-20 over two of the game's most respected players. He now takes on Mercer, twice a winner of these Championships, in front of a crowd of several thousand, in what could be a classic final.
Introduced by Colin Welland from the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool. Commentator HARRY RIGBY
Producer NICK HUNTER. BBC Manchester

A contest of musical knowledge between
Frank Muir and John Amis and Denis Norden and Ian Wallace Musical chairman Steve Race
Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPS

by the Conservative Party

The third episode in a series of nine documentary films about the Bolton Area Health Authority. The Psychiatric Block
The psychiatric patients are waiting to be moved out of their ward, which is unsafe after a fall of plaster. But at the last moment the porters withdraw their labour. At a union meeting they decide that it will be unsafe to the public if psychiatric patients are allowed into the main body of the hospital - that is unless the porters are guaranteed a system of overtime payments for supervisory work. Management capitulates, and the move takes place.
The psychiatric block is now empty, and there are ambitious plans for modernisation. But money is short, and one by one the plans are jettisoned, leaving a demoralised nursing staff to cope with its confused and bewildered patients.
Film cameraman MIKE southon Film recordist CHRIS KING Film editor PETER GORDON Producer TIM KING

A cycle of comedies based on short stories by ANTON CHEKHOV
Today we think of Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) as the great dramatist and author of stage plays like The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull and The Three Sisters. But he came to literature through the back door.
In the 1880s he was a penniless medical student. He began to write humorous anecdotes, sketches, reviews, and comic monologues - hundreds of them-for Moscow newspapers and magazines.
A selection has been joined together to make Merry-go-Round, the longest and most famous being Tale of a Double Bass.
1: Gratitude
2: Tale of a Double Bass
3: An Anti-tobacco Lecture
4: Ladies' Fashion
5: Day of Reckoning
English version recorded at World Wide Sound. London
Artistic director ABRAM FRIEDIN A TELEFILM production

Hands Off the Classics
Messing around with the classics has a long and honoured history. In the 17th century Troilus and Cressida was produced with all the dirty bits cut out. In the 18th, King Lear had a happy ending. In the 19th, vast chunks were sliced off the classics to make way for ballet and vaudeville.
In our own century we take a scalpel to the classic rather than a hatchet. Nevertheless a fascinating and vitriolic debate is now raging over the border line between interpretation and vandalism.
Tonight's extended edition of Arena looks at the issues behind this debate and the great productions of the last 20 years, to find out whether it is ever possible to keep our ' hands off the classics'. With among others, John Barton , Peter Brook , Terry Hands , Alan Howard , Bernard Levin , Ian Mc-Kellen , Jonathan Miller and members of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Film editor CHARLES CHABOT
Producers DENNIS MARKS and ALAN YENTOB

Weather

RONALD PICKUP reads
The Junk Dealer by ROBERT ROZHDESTVENSKY