6.40 IATA: A World System. 7.5 The Fabric of Life. 7.30 Concrete.

Story: Buttons or Bows?
Written by JUDY WHITFIELD Presenters Lucie Skeaping, Don Spencer

Wick House, an old persons' home, tries to offer its residents a choice of lifestyle. How successful has it been?
Producer PHIL ASHBY
A BBC/Open University production

Men o' War
Stan and Ollie get into trouble again but at least they're both in the same boat.

Hoosegow
Stan and Ollie land in jail.

Hal Roach films

The sixth of nine films The Sharp End
In Britain the folk heroes of the oil business have always been at the production end-explorers, scientists, drillers, engineers: the salesmen, the men who must meet the customer eyeball-to-eyeball, their praises went unsung. Oil is something no one wants to buy. The battle takes different forms in America, Britain and Europe; but in all of them the salesman's day has come.
(Treasure Island: tomorrow at 6.25)

A series of short stories by P. G. WODEHOUSE
Today John Alderton tells Goodbye to All Cats
Freddie Widgeon was good-looking, danced well, and could wiggle his ears - which dazzled Dahlia Prenderby enough to invite him for the weekend. Unfortunately, the Prenderbys were animal-lovers ...
Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director CHRISTINE secombi

BBC2 Snooker Championship
The second of seven programmes
The second qualifying knockout frame for the Junior Pot Black Trophy, featuring:
Steve Ventham (Mitcham), 1982 British Junior Under-16 Champion v Chris Hanison (Nottingham), 1981 British Junior Under-16 Champion
Introduced by Alan Weeks
(Third frame tomorrow at 7.0 pm)

with subtitles, followed by Weather

The last of eight films on historic ships and maritime museums in Britain, written and presented by Anthony Burton
Home from the Sea
No ship can stay at sea for ever and in this last film of the series ANTHONY BURTON shows the way in which some of our ports and harbours developed. Crail in Fife-shire, Cotehele in Cornwall, Lancaster in Lancashire and Liverpool are the examples, and the Tamar barge Shamrock and the steam tug Portwey at Stoke Gabriel, Devon, are the vessels.
Film editor KEITH WILTON Producer MICHAEL GARROD

Luton Hoo
Arthur Negus is joined by Hermione Waterfield in the fifth of eight programmes in which he visits houses which he especially enjoys with a companion who shares his affection for the fine houses of this country and the treasures they contain.
Luton Hoo is the home of the Wernher Collection which has among its many treasures the finest collection of Faberge outside our own Royal Collection. Add to this fine furniture by Chippendale and Oeben, and a treat is assured.
Lighting JACK BELASCO
Director BRIAN HAWKINS
Producer ROBIN DRAKE. BBC Bristol
(Arthur Negus Enjoys: Badminton, tomorrow at 7.55 pm)

with Tony Soper
Cuckoo
What does a cuckoo look like? How does it get other birds to foster its young? And what other sounds does it make besides ' cuckoo '?
Film editor NORMAN BURGESS
Producer DILYS BREESE. BBC Bristol (The Gull Family: Thursday 8.20 pm)

starring Robert Montgomery, John Wayne

Ford's classic movie about a squadron of US motor torpedo-boats in the Philippines was made while he and its star Robert Montgomery were still on active service. It is justly considered one of Ford's masterpieces, a characteristically warm tribute to men in action - willing to sacrifice their lives for their beliefs. The action takes place at the time of Pearl Harbor and some of the battle sequences were part-directed by Montgomery.
Screenplay by FRANK WEAD
Produced and directed by JOHN FORD
(Black and white)

JOAN BAKEWELL with what's going on at the Edinburgh Festival; and DONALD MACCORMICK in London to assess the news at home and abroad.