6.40 Technology and Participation in China
7.5 Neural Modelling
Story: "The Cow Who Jumped"
Written by Avril Price
Presenters Chloe Ashcroft, Chris Tranchell
4.55 White Collar Workers
5.20 Why Comparative Politics?
5.45 The Reasonable Militant
6.10 The Changeling
6.35 The Nucleus
with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2
An introductory guide to the new combined television and radio course for beginners in Spanish which starts tomorrow.
Presented by Alan Wilding
Book, records, or cassettes and notes for teachers are available from booksellers or from BBC Publications
Weather
There may now be enough homes to go round but many, particularly in urban areas, are still sub-standard. How in the future can we best provide good housing for as many people as possible? Can it be done better by the private or the public sector?
With Michael Charlton and Richard Kershaw
A nonstop sequence of hits for all ages.
Sung by Paul Curtis, Hazel Dean, Jane Marlow, Elaine Paige, Mike Redway, Carolyn Smyth, Danny Street, Maynard Williams
and The Fine Tooth Combs
with Looks!
A series of six films,. in which English communities still look remarkably different from each other.
As. the hand chainmaker -man or woman - becomes a -thing of the past, there's still pride in application to the metal trades which have always been the basic occupation.
Brian Trueman looks at the market-place and the chainshop, the Ragged School and a Black Country Night Out, but it's in the Staffordshire bull terrier that he finds a reflection of the Black Country man himself.
BBC Manchester
The saga of an American family by Alex Haley.
A dramatisation in six parts based on one man's search for his roots - which led to a best-selling book and a highly successful television series on both sides of the Atlantic.
Starring Edward Asner as Captain Davies, Lynda Day George as Mrs Reynolds, Louis Gossett Jr as Fiddler, Lorne Greene as John Reynolds, Vic Morrow as Ames, Robert Reed as Dr William Reynolds, Ralph Waite as Slater and LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte
Kunta Kinte, captured by slave traders, endures the horrors of the long sea journey to America. After being sold to a tobacco farmer, he makes the first of many at attempts to escape - determined to retain his own identity.
A David L. Wolper production
(First shown on BBC1)
for the BBC2 Trophy
Castleford v Wakefield Trinity
Malcolm Reilly (Castleford)
Castleford are the most successful club in the Floodlit Competition, having won the BBC2 Trophy four times since the tournament began 14 years ago.
David Topliss (Wakefield)
: Wakefield, on the other hand, have never won the Trophy but 'have already defeated their local rivals in the League this season.
Highlights of the whole match played earlier this evening at Whetdon Road. . Commentator EDDIE WARING
Producer- KEITH PHILLIPS BBC Manchester
[The Old Grey Whistle Test] takes a look at the contemporary rock scene with Anne Nightingale and Bob Harris
In the studio this week Stephen Bishop, The Rezillos
with films, album tracks, interviews, news and reviews
