6.40 Genetics: Meiosis

7.5 Problems of Pollution

7.30 Frank Lloyd Wright

The programme looks at a problem which most Asian women in this country have to face at some time or another.
There is also a story for young children and a popular song.
Producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Birmingham

A series of 26 programmes. 20: This week a liscussion programme for Asian viewers on ways of overcoming language difficulties faced by immigrant families in this country. Presented by MEHERENGIZ MUNSIFF.
Producer ROBERT CLAMP
Executive producer TONY MATTHEWS Tutors' booklet £1.10, student booklet £1.50, from bookshops. If you would like to give or receive help in learning English, please ring - for England: [number removed]; for Scotland: [number removed]; for Wales: [number removed]4; for Northern Ireland: [number removed]8.

Today's story: Odd One Out by RODNEY PEPPE Presenters
Sheelagh Gilbey , Fred Harris
Book, Play School: Ready to Play, £1.50, from bookshops. Play On, record (REC 332) or cassette (ZCM 332), Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away, record (REC 242) or cassette (MRMC 004), from record shops

4.50 Metals and the Electrochemical Series

5.15 Systems Modelling

5.40 History of Mathematics

6.5 Structure of Lysozyme

6.30 Interpreting a Dream

A series of five programmes
Everyone has ancestors but few of us know much about them. Were they merchants or craftsmen -Roundheads or Cavaliers, Normans or Saxons? Does your surname provide a clue? How far can you trace your family tree? Presented by Gordon Honeycombe and based on his search into his family history.
Producer BRYN BROOKS

including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

A 13-part worldwide series Presented by Ronald Eyre
1: Three Hundred and Thirty Million Gods
1 The Long Search is open to anybody. You don't have to go to
Benares, India, to start it, though we did. It doesn't have a tidy beginning, middle, and end. You're on it the moment that you start wondering where you were before you were born, where you'll go when you die, and what you're on earth for in the meantime. If you knew the answers you wouldn't ask the questions. But other people's answers should be worth collecting - and so should other people's questions. That's what we're going to try to do ...
... the blockbuster series comes of age ... The series puts a premium on filmed events; Eyre, by selection, question and basic continuity, allows the viewer to make discoveries rather than be told things ... The Long Search has all the makings of a milestone.
(THE OBSERVER)
... Mr Eyre 's trip through India was mind-spinning. Fortunately, he was gentleman enough to be a bit mind-blown himself. (THE TIMES) Associate producers
MISCHA SCORER, JONATHAN STEDALL
Produced by PETER MONTAGNON

Peter Hobday reports on the people and events, both at home and abroad, that affect your money. Each week in The Money Programme a special report on the Stock Market; on commodity prices and on what is happening in the City of London. As well, there are reports from companies in the news, and on how decisions that their bosses make affect jobs, prices and future prospects. Reporters Paul Barry
Moyra Bremner , Colin Chapman
Deputy editor CLIVE SYDDALL Editor PAUL ELLIS

Hawkeyestarring Alan Alda B J and Mike Farrell
Margaret's Marriage: Lt-Col Penobscott is cast for a central role in a long-awaited ceremony and for perhaps the first and last time, Frank is acknowledged best man.

by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish
in a new translation in three parts of "The Oresteia of Aeschylus".

(Of Mycenae and Men, Friday 10.15 pm, a comedy by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish )

Introduced by Sue MacGregor , in which well-known personalities choose one of their favourite films and show extracts from it.
This week: the TV and radio disc-jockey Kenny Everett on It's a Wonderful Life, tomorrow night's Midweek Cinema on BBC2.
Director SUE MALLINSON Producer BARRY BROWN

At the age of 77, Mabel Mercer , subtle interpreter of American popular song, came home to England and acquainted new audiences with her unique style of musical story-telling.
Tonight's programme includes songs by Cole Porter , Jerome Kern , Jerry Herman , Leonard Bernstein , Joni Mitchell and Noel Coward.
It was recorded at the Playboy Club in July 1977.
Producer TRISTRAM POWELL

Weather

GEORGINE ANDERSON reads
First Day (On Broadstreet Farm) by PATRIC DICKINSON