A programme exploring the experience of widowhood.
A BBC/Open University production

After your research is done, it must be brought together within the framework of a business plan. This is the time to make decisions.
A BBC/Open University production

Part three of a dramatised trilogy about the problems facing Lewis Jones in his first managerial job.
A BBC/Open University production

Chris Serle discovers some golden moments from the BBC's film and videotape library.
Director MIKE SEDDON
Series producer ALBERT BARBER (R)

3.45 REA Bott Foxhunters 'Chase (2m 6f) - or to give it another name, the Amateurs' Grand National. One complete circuit of all the famous fences; the Chair comes early, the horses are fresh and the riders sometimes impetuous - compulsive viewing.
4.20 Sporting Life Weekender Handicap 'Chase (3m If)

Not Prince Hamlet
David Weatherly visits the School of Law to try to understand what led to the suicide of his son, Marshall. Written by LEE KALCHEIM
Directed by LYNN ROTH

with subtitles; Weather

continues the season of animal films for the family. Today starring
Charlton Heston Michele Mercier The exciting and moving story of Buck, a magnificent Alsatian dog stolen from his Californian home, shipped to the snowy wastes of Alaska and sold for use as a sled dog. This screen adaptation of JACK LONDON'S famous tale follows the hardships and adventures of Buck and his master, John Thornton , during the harsh and often brutal times of the Yukon gold-rush
Screenplay by PETER WELBECK WYN WELLS and PETER YELDHAM
Produced by HARRY ALAN TOWERS Directed by KEN ANNAKIN
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An international link-up between British and Russian teenagers, presented from London by Mike Smith and by satellite from Moscow with Zoya Zarubina
A chance for young people to exchange views. And reaction to a specially conducted
Gallup poll in Britain, and a poll in the Soviet Union, of teenagers' views on both sides of the iron curtain on their hopes and fears. Director PATRICK HARPUR Producer ERIC ROWAN (R)

Juliet Alexander presents the magazine programme from
Britain's black communities.
Each week Ebony reports on the news and the issues which matter most, talks to the people behind the news stories, and presents the best of what's happening.
This week pop superstar
Jermaine Jackson talks about his latest album, his Motown career and his new-found interest in film making.
There's also the inside story of the Jackson's Victory tour, and what it's really like to be Michael Jackson 's older brother.
Executive producer JOHN WILCOX BBC Pebble Mill

Fourth of six stories of courage, expertise, endurance, or the sheer human spirit which takes individuals to the brink of success or failure.
Ewen Riddick was 18 months away from an honours degree. A dive into the waves on a Portuguese beach put an end to those hopes.
He entered Stoke Mandeville Hospital on a stretcher. He was determined to leave on his feet.
Written and presented by Tony Wilkinson
Executive producer CYRIL GATES Director JONATHAN BULLEN BBC Manchester

from Creeting St Mary, Ipswich
Presented by Geoff Hamilton and Clay Jones

David Small's interest in heathers has led to the establishment of a thriving specialist nursery, not only providing local employment but also a wide range of heather varieties, including the species Cape Heather. With a soil pH of around eight, fits ovun garden is hardly suitable for growing heathers and yet, by using peat beds and sulphate of iron, he has succeeded in growing riot only heathers, but the acid-loving callunas.
Executive producer JOHN KENYON
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON
Producer DENIS w. GARTSIDE
BBC Pebble Mill
Plant list on Ceefax page 261

Presented by Anneka Rice The sixth of eight programmes in which well-known personalities take up the sport of their choice. This week: Anneka Rice continues her pot-holing with some training in the single rODe technioue.
Trevor McDonald is back on court with Virginia Wade learning the tricks and tactics of doubles play.
Stan Boardman finds himself on a salvage dive to retrieve an outboard motor. 'If we can find it, the owner'll owe us a pint or two - it's not the sort of thing you can tuck under your arm.'
Anneka Rice chats to Stan Boardman about his underwater adventures. Film editor PATRICK FLEMING
Assistant producer VICKI MOORE Producer PETER RAMSDEN

The BBC Television
International Sheepdog Championship
Introduced by Phil Drabble with Eric Halsall
Second semi-final
A shepherd from the Moorfoot Hills and the 1984 English National Champion meet to decide who joins last week's semi-final winner for a place in the singles final. Scotland:
BOBBY HENDERSON with Craig England:
ALAN ELLIOT with MOSS
The Brace Championship continues today on the trials course above Ullswater. Wales:
MEIRION JONES with Bill and Cap Ireland:
DOUGLAS LITTLE with Ben and Mirk Technical co-ordinator STEVE WHITAKER
Director DAVID PICKTHALL Producer IAN SMITH

Ludovic Kennedy makes his choice of the week's television and, with his studio guests, discusses: Cosi fan tutte (BBC 2), Ann and Debbie (Granada) and The Secret Diaries of the Film Censor (Channel 4)

Including Test Cricket - a report from Mark Austin in Trinidad at the end of the second day's play in the Fourth Test between England and the West Indies.

(El derecho de asilo) starring
Susana Mara
Xabier Elorriaga
When his government is toppled by a military coup, Ricardo has to seek asylum. Unfortunately, he has to make do with one of the less prosperous Latin American embassies, but Ricardo knows how to make himself indispensable to the Ambassador and his wife.
This ironic tale from Spanish television is based on a short story by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier.
Adapted by SOLLY WOLODARSKY Directed by PASCUAL CERVERA
(A Spanish programme with English subtitles. First showing on British television)
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