Advice and information on matters of interest to Asian women.
Producer ashok RAMPAL
Directed by bish MEHAY
BBCBirmingham
Write to: Gharbar, Asian Unit, BBC, Pebble Mill Road. Birmingham B5 7QQ, with your comments and suggestions.
Speak for Yourself, £2.75, from booksellers
Story: Spot's First Walk
Written and illustrated by ERIC HILL
Guest storyteller Rachel Hurst Presenters
Floella Benjamin , Chris Tranchell
Book, Play School Ready to Play, £1.50; Play School, Hello (record REC 425, cassette zcm 425); Play On (record REC 332, cassette zcm 332); Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away (record REC 242, cassette MRMC004), from retailers
The BBC Television International Sheepdog Championship
Introduced by Phil Drabble
with Eric Halsall
Wyn Edwards from the Vale of Clwyd with Bill (Wales) v David Brady from the Antrim Hills with Meg (Ireland)
The Brace Championship continues today when each competitor runs two dogs simultaneously over the course at Cilycwm in mid Wales.
Thomas Longton with Bess and Lassie (England) v Dick Fortune with Glen and Bill (Scotland)
(harp) plays Glinka Variations on a theme by Mozart
Ten films in which Magnus Magnusson explores the Viking world. 6: Bitter is the Wind
The Viking incursions around the northern seas, encompassing north Britain, the Isle of Man and Ireland, produced at one period an urbanised and settled society from which sprang a lasting culture which is still apparent today.
MAGNUS MAGNUSSON follows the story of the Viking kingdoms of Dublin and York - the setting for the saga of the legendary Eric Bloodaxe. with John Bennett , Jeremy Kemp Colin Blakely , Dennis Edwards
Music by JACK POINT
Series adviser PROFESSOR p. h. SAWYER Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Series producer DAVID COLLISON
The last of three programmes
In the Second World War the flying boats of RAF Coastal Command played a crucial part in the war at sea and it was the Sunder-land that played the leading role. Squadrons of Sunderlands flew in all theatres of war, guarding shipping lifelines and seeking out enemy fleets and U-boats. In peace-time they became part of the BOAC fleet of aircraft on the reopened Empire routes, but their civilian role was short-lived. Bigger airports and longer run-ways meant bigger and faster land planes. The last flying boat built, in 1952, was the Princess, the largest aircraft at the time; she lived for only one year.
David Lomax concludes the story
Film editor PETER HUNT Producer JOHN COLEMAN
Book (same title), £10.00, from booksellers
A serial in 12 parts 3: The Executioner
The malevolent Convict 39013 is forced to dispose of one of his most trusted henchmen in order to lead the Daredevils into a deadly trap. How can they survive the noxious fumes pouring into the sealed garage?
(Part 4 tomorrow at 5.40 pm)
A series in 18 episodes Part 14 by ALAN JANES
The shortage of public transport has frightening consequences for William Watson when he takes a short-cut home. Grange Hill pupils:
Series devised by PHIL REDMOND Executive producer ANNA HOME Director COLIN CANT
with subtitles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
Written and presented by Patrick Nuttgens
When Lutyens died in 1944, he was described as the greatest architect since Wren. His output was prodigious; major work on houses, banks and offices, Great War cemeteries in France, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, the vast crypt of a never-to-be-built RC cathedral in Liverpool, and in 1931 the capital of India, New Delhi.
Patrick Nuttgens, an architect and director of Leeds Polytechnic, looks at Lutyens' life and work, his letters, his drawings and bubbling sense of fun, and discusses why his reputation, once pushed aside by the march of the Modern Movement, is at the centre of revived interest today.
(An Arts Council exhibition on the work o/ Lutyens is at the Hayward Gallery, London, until 31 January)
A series of eight programmes 6: They Call us Beasts
Cl landing in Strangeways is a place where inmates are labelled by their fellow prisoners as ' beasts They are mainly sex offenders. On entering prison these men are advised to apply for Rule 43A - segregation for their own protection. For if they are put in the main prison other inmates will take the law into their own hands.
Film cameraman DEREK BANKS Producer REX BLOOMSTEIN
Life Time
Hawkeye and Hunnicutt race against the clock to save the life of a severely-wounded young soldier. If they can't complete the operation in 20 minutes the boy will die.
Written by WALTER D. DISHELL , MB Directed by ALAN ALDA
by Ken Taylor
A serial in ten parts starring Adolfo Celi, Oliver Cotton Alfred Burke
The Pope, fountainhead of all Cesare's power, is dead. Suddenly surrounded by enemies, in need of all his strength and cunning, Cesare lies gravely ill. The power of the family is in jeopardy.
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After a riot, what can a community do to pull itself up and start again? The self-help show meets Ted Watkins , a community worker from Watts in California, which suffered fearsome riots 15 years ago. Now he is visiting Brixton. Presenter Jeni Barnett also brings you ' Pensioners' Liberation' through do-it-yourself crafts in Wiltshire, and three mums in Birmingham who decided to help each other in coping with handicapped children.
A COMMUNITY PROGRAMMES UNIT production For information, or if you have ideas for the show, please write to [address removed]
PETER SNOW, JOHN TUSA , PETER HOBDAY and DONALD MACCORMICK present an informed account of what's happening in the world; special reports from the BBC's correspondents at home and abroad, investigations by Newsnight's own team of reporters into what's going on behind the headlines; the latest news and weather forecast from louise BATCHELOR and MARGARET HOUNSELL , plus the evening's sports results from DAVID ICKE.
Producer JOHN holme
Directors ALEX SAWARD , JOHN wilkinsoij Assignment editors
CLIVE SYDDALL , JOHN MAHONET
Deputy editor DAVID DICKINSON Editor RON NEIL