6.55 Ethnic Minorities: Punjab to Britain

7.20 Weekend Outlook

(to 7.25)

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
The group matches are completed today, and only one team from each of the four groups will compete in the semi-finals.
New Zealanders PETER
BELLISS and phil SKOGLUND were the original favourites in Group 1, while WILLIE WOOD and DAVID GOURLAY were
Scotland's fancy in Group 4, and SAMMY ALLEN and JIM BAKER carried Ireland's main hopes in Group 2.
DAVID ICKE introduces live coverage that involves all three double acts.

with subtitles; Weather

continues a season of animal films for the family. Today starring
Karen Valentine
Leighton Greer and 'O.J.' as Skeezer
The true story of Carrie Jessup , a therapist who adopted a loveable dog and introduced him into her work with young people. This heartwarming film follows the extraordinary story of Carrie's work with disturbed youngsters and the contribution made by Skeezer in that work.
Screenplay by ROBERT HAMILTON From the book Skeezer, Dog with a Mission by ELIZABETH YATES Produced by LEE LEVINSON Directed by PETER H HUNT
(First showing on British television) 0 FILMS: page 21

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
DAVID ICKE introduces highlights and the results from this afternoon's three vital matches from the Bournemouth International Centre. Commentators
DAVID RHYS-JONES
JIMMY DAVIDSON Summarisers
MAL HUGHES , DAVID MCGILL Assistant producers
PETER HAYWARD. RON GUBBA TOM DOCHERTY. HUW JOSEPH
Executive producer NICK HUNTER

Juliet Alexander introduces the programme from
Britain's black communities. In the last of the current series there's a preview of the Commonwealth Institute's
Caribbean Focus, and a record of three months in the life of HATCHAM WOOD SCHOOL as they prepare for one of the main Focus events - a children's carnival competition.
Studio director ANNIE MORRIS
Executive producer JOHN WILCOX BBC Pebble Mill

Fifth of six stories of the sheer human spirit which takes individuals to the brink of success or failure.
Jennie and Herbie Watson are dog-obedience trainers.
They took 13 delinquent dogs, and their owners, into a Manchester Park for a long weekend. They all had to be cured, or else ...
Written and presented by Tony Wilkinson
Executive producer CYRIL GATES Director KAREN BLUMENFELD BBC Manchester

from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton, Margaret Waddy and John Kelly

Time to sow hardy annuals and Ray Algar has adopted an unusual technique because he has to garden from his wheelchair. He tries out some new tools that may help those with similar problems. Hopefully, the soil will be warm enough to demand some hectic activity in the vegetable garden, and the shrub and herbaceous borders need reorganising.

BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by Anneka Rice The seventh of eight programmes in which well-known personalities take up the sport of their choice. This week Anneka Rice gets deeper into pot-holing as she makes a descent of Alum Pot in Yorkshire. 'They said if I wanted to be one of the ruffytuffies and join the A team,
I'd have to crawl through the cheese press. It should have been called the cheese grater.' And Trevor McDonald partners his coach Virginia Wade in a doubles match against Hank Marvin and Leslie Charles.
Anneka Rice visits
Trevor McDonald at his home to chat about his tennis.
Film editor PATRICK FLEMING
Assistant producer VICKI MOORE Producer PETER RAMSDEN

The BBC Television
International Sheepdog Championship
Introduced by Phil Drabble with Eric Halsall
The Young Handlers' Championship
Four young shepherds - three boys and a girl - compete on the same testing trials course above Ullswater as their seniors have been experiencing over the past weeks. They are battling it out for the BBC Television Trophy and the Sash of Honour presented by the International Sheep Dog Society.
Competitors: Ireland
CATHERINE MURPHY With
Jill Scotland
IAN BROWNLIE with Nan Wales
MARK OWEN with Silver England
THOMAS IVESON with Gyp 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:
Every Second Counts (BBC1), Joan Rivers: Can We Talk? (BBC2) and Prospects (Channel Four).
And there's a special report from Beijing about China Central Television.
Studio director NICHOLAS BARKER Producer CHARLES MILLER

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
DAVID BRYANT has won every title in the game, and his name has dominated bowls for more than a generation. Bryant's partner,
TONY ALLCOCK , the World Indoor
Champion shows all the signs of emulating him, and not surprisingly they were hot favourites to win this event for England. They play their final Group 3 match tonight. TERRY SULLIVAN , last year's World and UK Indoor
Champion, and his partner
RUSSEL EVANS were the Welsh favourites to qualify - but they would need to beat the New Zealand team if they were to get through.
DAVID ICKE introduces the best of both matches and reveals the semi-finalists from the Bournemouth International Centre.