A programme for Asian women
Producer ASHOK RAMPAL
Directed by KRISHAN GOULD BBC Birmingham

Tigris - The Sumerian Voyage of Thor Heyerdahl
1: The Garden of Eden
With his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, THOR HEYERDAHL Showed hOW prehistoric man, 4,000 years ago, could have crossed a world ocean. Now, Heyerdahl sets out to show that man was master of his own destination by being able to navigate. Commentary spoken by EDWARD WOODWARD
Four handsome films, (DAILY TELEGRAPH) Undoubtedly an epic series. (TIME OUT) Written and rroduced by BRUCE NORMAN . Part 2 next Wednesday

The Story of a Great Inventor
Just over 100 years ago - on 3 February 1879 in the 'Lit and Phil' in Newcastle - Joseph Swan gave the first successful demonstration in the world of an incandescent electric lamp bulb.
His invention, in a house in Low Fell, Gateshead, led to the international development of the electric lighting we take for granted today. Yet, even at the time, his fame was eclipsed by the more extrovert personality of his American rival Thomas Edison.
Tonight's documentary celebrates the unsung genius of the Sunder-land-born scientist and inventor, whose natural modesty has too often denied him the place in the history-books he deserved. with Alan Meadows as Swan Narrator
PETER WHEELER
Written and produced by ROGER BURGESS
Director PHILLIP PRIDE

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

Introduced by Anne Nightingale In the studio this week: Ellen Foley , Chelsea

Robert Robinson with Jo Grimond , who has just published his memoirs - 'William looked like an intelligent mouse' - William Douglas-Home , who has just done the same - ' Jo was large, cheerful and untidy ' - and Lord Butler who did the same - The Art of The Possible - and has written on ' the difficult art of autobiography.'
Director sue MALLINSON Producer ANTONY ROUSE

A series of ten programmes with Donald Sinden 7' CivicPride
The profits of the flourishing medieval wool trade brought the perpendicular style of Gothic to fruition in the sumptuous wool churches of East Anglia and the West Country. But while churches were gaining in secular beauty they were losing in spiritual values. The clergy had become comfortable and sometimes corrupt. An anti-clerical feeling grew up amongst the public, and the stage was set for Henry VIII 's break with the Papacy. The Gothic style was faltering, too, as its energy and invention became dissipated. The time had come for a change in architecture as well.
This week DONALD SINDEN visits the churches of Fairford and Cirencester in Gloucestershire.
Film cameraman PAUL v. WHEELER Film editor PETER ORTON Producer DICK FOSTER

by DAVID SNODIN
A tragic event shatters the complacent calm of a great university.
Haunted by it, Peter Molyneux turns up at the Italian villa of Dr Still.
Lighting DENNIS CHANNON
Script editor ALAN SEYMOUR Designer PAUL MUNTING Producer ANNE HEAD
Directed by DEREK LISTER

A Portrait of Lady Astor 1879-1964 with Joyce Grenfell , Lord Shinwell William Douglas-Home
David Astor , Claud Cockburn and Sir Oswald Mosley
Presented by John Grigg
Sixty years ago this week, on 1 December 1919, Nancy Astor became the first woman Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons. She said, Nobody wanted me there. It was like going into a man's club' but she stayed for 25 years.
She was American-born, a millionairess by marriage and a leading political hostess. At Cliveden, the family home, she entertained on the grand scale and her opponents branded the Astor circle of friends ' the Cliveden Set'. In her constituency in Ply-mouth, she is remembered as the great supporter of nursery education and of women's rights.
In this film biography-in which the Astor home-movies are shown for the first time- her niece JOYCE GRENFELL returns to Cliveden to recall Nancy in her heyday as hostess there and her three sons DAVID, MICHAEL and JAKIE talk openly about their mother. Her maid ROSE HARRISON recalls her years in service and CLAUD COCKBURN , SIR OSWALD MOSLEY and LORD SHINWELL reflect the various views on Nancy's career in the House of Commons.
Photography DAVID WHITSON Sound DICK BOULTER
Film researcher CHRISTINE WHITTAKER Film editor ALAN LYGO
Producer JEREMY BENNETT. See page 3

Weather

The programme in which the BBC hands over airtime to the public. Tonight: Merseyside Chinese Community Services presents Mersey Dragon

GARY WATSON reads two poems The News by ' SALTINO ' and The Pig by PAUL R. L. BONEL