12.15 Genetics: Race for the Gene

1.05 Cropping the Countryside

It's lively, fun and sometimes controversial, covering stories affecting Asians both here and abroad. Entertainment ranges from music to dance, from film clips to star interviews, from the classic to the modem.
Producer NARINDER MINHAS
Series producer NARENDHRA MORAR Executive producer JOHN WILCOX

Cinque Ports with Jenny Powell and Tony Baker
Associate producer JONATHAN KING Production PETER HAMILTON BBC North West

Starring Anthony Newley, David Hemmings

In this entertaining musical version of Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, Anthony Newley plays Daniel Quilp, the sly and grasping Cockney moneylender who describes himself as 'so crooked I have to screw my socks on'.

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Overlooking the great harbour of Bombay is one of the largest and most exotic hotels in the world, the Taj Mahal.
Shoba De, India's acid gossip columnist, introduces the super-rich at a lavish party by the hotel pool. Chef Satish Arora examines with pleasure the food he has prepared for today's 22 banquets. 350,000 flowers are woven together and dyed for a wedding. Underground, Frankie Pais sits in his Aladdin's cave, mending hundreds of chandeliers. And the Head Waiter, Behram Irani, prepares for a Caledonian Ball.

"Much to admire in this sharply-observed, highly wrought film" (Daily Telegraph)
"Spellbinding" (Today)

(Ceefax subtitles)

Debbie Thrower with today's latest news and sport
Plus a review of the week by Moira Stuart - with subtitles; Weather

Tongue-tied in the fishmongers? Scared stiff in the kitchen? Then join
Susan Hicks for some mouth- watering and simple fish recipes, while Barry the Fish guides you round the fishmonger's slab. There's a visit to a grand hotel too, and the secrets of what Mexicans do with cod.
Series producer RON BLOOMFIELD Producer ANNE O'DWYER
Book. £6.95. from booksellers
* RECIPE TIMES: page 101
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Alvin Ailey
A series of five programmes specially recorded for television, featuring America's leading choreographers.
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Blues Suite
Choreography by ALVIN AILEY Fever Swamp
Choreography by BILL T.JONES
Rainbow round my Shoulder Choreography by DONALD MCKAYLE
Life and love in a 'barrel house' - a saloon for blacks in the American South - and the sufferings of a chain gang: two aspects of the 'black experience' portayed in two modern dance classics.These and a recent 'post modern' piece are danced by Alvin Ailey 's famous multi-racial company from New York.
Introduced by Robert Cohan , former lead dancer with the Martha Graham Dance
Company and founder and Artistic Director of London
Contemporary Dance Theatre. Presented by Colin Nears Dance directed for television by PATRICIA BIRCH

The Dunhill CuP from St Andrews , Fife
Highlights of the third round of the Professional Team Championship from the renowned Old Course, introduced by HARRY CARPENTER.
Commentators
PETER ALLISS
BRUCE CRITCHLEY
TONY JACKLIN
CLIVE CLARK Producers
FRED VINER and ALASTAIR SCOTT Executive producer JOHN SHREWSBURY
Golfing enthusiasts may be interested to know that there are several golfing cassettes now available from BBC Video- Play Golf with Peter AUiss ,
BBCV/B 1004 Jacklin and Palmer Play the Best 18 in Britain, BBCV/B 5023

Director John Boorman , whose latest film Hope and Glory opened recently, introduces two films starring Jack Nicholson.
Five Easy Pieces also starring Karen Black
Susan Anspach
Bobby Eroica Dupea , drifting son of a middle-class family of musicians works in oil rigs and construction sites to earn money. His casual attitude extends to Rayette, the waitress he currently lives with and mistreats. Reluctantly he takes her along on a visit to his family home in Seattle. Bob
Rafelson's study of a social misfit in contemporary
America, received four Oscar nominations including one for Nicholson's portrayal of the complex Bobby.
Screenplay ADRIEN JOYCE Based on a story by BOB RAFELSON. ADRIEN JOYCE Produced by BOB RAFELSON. RICHARD WECHSLER Directed by BOB RAFELSON
11.30
The Shooting also starring Warren Oates
Millie Perkins
Arriving at an isolated mine in search of his twin brother Coigne and two accomplices
Leland Drum and Coley, one-time bounty hunter
Willet Gashade finds that Drum has been mysteriously killed and that Coigne is on the run. Then a strange woman appears out of the desert, persuading Gashade and Coley to escort her to the nearest town. But there is a hired gunman on their trail. This rare and haunting
Western was co-produced by Nicholson and established cult director Monte Hellman.
Screenplay by ADRIEN JOYCE
Produced by JACK NICHOLSON and MONTE HELLMAN
Directed by MONTE HELLMAN
(First showing on British television) (Jack Nicholson stars in Ride in the Whirlwind on Friday at 11.20pm) 0 FILMS: page 26