6.40 Systems, Boundaries and Biases

7.5 Woodland Decomposers

7.30 Movement of Substances in Plants

Advice and information on matters of interest to Asian women. Including demonstrations of how to make useful items of everyday use at home, sewing and cooking, a story for children and an item of popular music.
Producer ASHOK RAMPAL
Director KRISHAN GOULD could. BBC Birmingham

Story: The Great Oak written by ELIZABETH ROSE ANDGERALD ROSE illustrated by GERALD ROSE Presenters
Floella Benjamin , Don Spencer

4.50 Genetics: Meiosis

5.15 The Nature of Chemistry

5.40 Classical Greece: The Theatre

6.5 Concorde Case Study: 3

6.30 Looking at Poems

Presented by Jeremy James
An international chess tournament Game 10: Viktor Korchnoi (CH) v Michael Stean (GB)
' I play today against my best aide, he knows everything I play, he remembers all my opening ideas even better than I' says Korchnoi, who is fighting for an outside chance of reaching the final and the first prize of £2,500.
Stean was Korchnoi's second in his last two world championship matches and tonight a stiff examination awaits the pupil in front of his favourite professor!
Expert analysis WILLLAM HARTSTON
Designer JOHN BONE
Director SANDRA WAINWRIGHT
Producer ROBERT TONER. Preview: p 25
Book (same title), £2.50, from bookshops List of moves on Ceefax page 289 after each programme

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

La Linea
An animator's hand once again turns a straight line into a tetchy little man.
Animated by OSVALDO CAVANDOLl

A series of three programmes investigating the so-called microelectronics revolution.

The silicon chip, unnoticed by most of us a few years ago, is now something everybody has heard about, few understand and many are beginning to fear. Is it really the basis for a revolution as profound as the industrial revolution? Bernard Falk takes a layman's view of what the silicon chip is, how it's made and works. From a Chicago millionaire's home to a Birmingham car-test track, and from a psychiatric hospital in Scotland to a Swedish factory, he looks at how the new technology is being used and what it could do in the future.

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Working At It
A profile of Liverpool playwright Alan Bleasdale
With two new productions packing them in, in the North of England, ALAN BLEASDALE continues to build on the popular success of his TV plays The Black Stuff and Scully's New Year's Eve. Arena looks at the people and places - the tarmac gang, the school, the hospital and the docks around which he has woven his plays.
'I didn't know what a proscenium arch was till I was into my fourth play ... I'm writing about people and emotions, people at work, people in conflict ... I suppose I'm really writing about " laughter and tears ".'
Film editor DAVID GLADWELL Producer ALAN YENTOB
Director RICHARD THOMAS

by EMILE ZOLA
Dramatised in three parts by PHILIP MACKIE
2: Therese and Laurent became lovers and as their passion grew, so did their desperation. With Camille alive they had no hope ... but now Camille is out of their lives for ever, or so they believe.
Music composed and conducted by PATRICK GOWERS
Make-up JEAN SPEAK
Script editor BETTY WILLINGALE
Designer DAVID MYERSCOUGH-JONES Producer JONATHAN POWELL Directed by SIMON LANGTON

A special programme featuring songs associated with the legendary Irish tenor John McCormack presented and sung by Robert White also featuring Shlomo Mintz playing music by KREISLER and Suzanne Murphy from the Welsh National Opera Company .
GRAHAM JOHNSON (accompanist) Members of the PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA leader CARL PINI conducted by Marcus Dods
Sound LARRY GOODSON
Lighting KEN MACGREGOR Designer PAUL TRERISE
Production YVONNE LITTLEWOOD

PETER SNOW, PETER HOBDAY, JOHN TUSA and CHARLES WHEELER report and analyse significant events of the day. At 11.15* news summary and weather from FRAN MORRISON and sports news from DAVID DAVIES.

The programme in which the BBC hands over air time to the public. Tonisht:
If the good Lord had intended. presented by The Rydevale Community Nursery ' " I felt like throwing myself over the balcony " - the desperation of one young mother who needed to work, but couldn't find care for her son. Rydevale Nursery provided the answer, and argues for much more provision like theirs for children growing up in a multiracial society.'
Made with the help of the COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

ROSALIND SHANKS reads The Geologist by SUSANNE KNOWLES