A programme for Asian women.

BBC Birmingham

(For details see BBC1 at 3.55 pm)

2.0 The Sapling Novices' Steeplechase (2m)
2.30 The Fernbank Hurdle (3m)
3.0 The Whitbread Trial Handicap Steeplechase (3m)
This race often provides a valuable pointer to both the Gold Cup and the Grand National.
3.35 The Reynoldstown Novices' Steeplechase (3m)
Introduced by Julian Wilson

Overnight declarations, tips and results on Ceefax

It's quite a drag for Charlie when he tries to skirt trouble and evade his girlfriend's father.
(Black and white)

A series of films for young people.

Did they teach you how to be unemployed at school? What can you do with all that free time? Start your own business? Stay in bed all day? Young people at the 'Springboard' Coffee Bar, Sunderland, talk about the choices.

(Repeated on BBC1 next Sunday)

An international chess tournament presented by Jeremy James
Sixth of 143 top quality games
Nigel Short (GB) v Robert Byrne (USA)

'This is ridiculous. One move and I'm lost, completely lost - now this is ridiculous.' But who is lost? At one time the American grandmaster thinks he's winning. Then boy-wonder, Nigel Short, thinks he's completely crushing his opponent... An extraordinary game unfolds...!
Analysis by William Hartston

All the moves of this game are published in The Listener this week.
Book (same title), £2.50, from bookshops

A magazine programme featuring community action, presented by Helene Hayman.

For millions of women the question 'How do I look?' is an obsession. Spare Tyre are a theatre company who through music and humour express many of the anxieties women have over their appearance - from compulsive eating to the obsessive slimmer. Tonight's Grapevine meets Spare Tyre and some women from self-help groups they have helped to form.

'Single people need homes too' - that's the plea made by CHAR, the Campaign for the Homeless and Rootless. They take over the Grapevine 'comment slot' tonight and show how Britain's housing crisis affects single people.

With 'Heard it...', our information exchange.

Produced by the Community Programme Unit

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

Six Films of Early Exploration
Introduced from the Royal Geographic Society by Duncan Carse

A daring pioneer expedition to survey and film 'those remote and mysterious regions never before gazed upon by white man'. Using all the modern inventions of his day, including wireless and aerial reconnaissance and photography, Dr. Hamilton Rice, the foremost scientific explorer of his time, forced his way nearly 800 miles up a tributary of the Amazon towards its source in the mountains. After almost a year of exhausting struggles, he turned back - another unknown river mapped, another milestone in Amazon exploration successfully established.

Reflections by Margot Fonteyn
The last of six programmes
with Rudolf Nureyev, Frederick Ashton, Michael Somes
The Royal Ballet
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Conductor Ashley Lawrence
Solo pianist Michael Reeves

Margot Fonteyn explores the dancer's life. The rigours of ballet class, the rehearsals and preparation: and the moment of truth when it's 'out in the limelight' and on with the performance.

Some of Margot Fonteyn's greatest moments on stage are relived in Salut d'Amour, created by Frederick Ashton, and a complete performance of Ashton's ballet Marguerite and Armand by the partnership for which it was created - Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.

Music from this series (record REP 363 and cassette ZCH 363), from record shops
Book (same title), £11.75, from bookshops

(For details see BBC1)

Starring Alan Alda as Hawkeye, Mike Farrell as B.J. Hunnicutt
with Loretta Swit as Hotlips, David Ogden Stiers as Major Charles Winchester, Harry Morgan as Colonel Potter, William Christopher as Father Mulcahy

It's a bit much. The Americans refuse to stop their own bombardment of the 4077th. Never mind, there is a bolthole near at hand. Or a hellhole; it depends which way you look at it.

by D.H. Lawrence
A dramatisation in seven parts by Trevor Griffiths

'Don't you think we have been too fierce in our, what they call, purity? Don't you think that to be so much afraid and averse is a sort of dirtiness?'

(Repeated next Saturday)

The fourth of six programmes

Derek Burke, Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Warwick, talks to Ronald Eyre.

'Science is a good technique for finding out how the world works. It gives useful information. It doesn't tell us how to live, and it doesn't tell me how to interact with my wife or how to be fair or to judge.'

BBC Bristol

(to 23.45)