This week two specially-selected programmes from the coming year's post-and undergraduate calendar will be shown each weekday.
12.30 Manufacturing Systems: The Task Force Approach
Faced with declining profitability, a UK company modernises its plant. But where to start?
12.55 An Introduction to Information Technology: Teletel
Massive investment by the French Government in Teletel - the new Videotex system - means there will soon be one in every home and office. Already the network offers thousands of services. So what's it all about?
A See-Saw programme (R)
in Triple Trouble
Weather followed by Songs of Praise
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Thomas Hardy Lived Here John Arlott explores the landscape of Dorset which provided the settings for the works of Thomas Hardy. Directed by DAVID HEYCOCK (R)
Rob Curling looks at radio and TV; Marian Foster has news from the Daytime Club.
Weather followed by Great Collectors
Forbes and Sons
The first of four films.
Written and narrated by Harriet Crawley
American publisher Malcolm Forbes and sons Kip, Bobby and Steve, are known as 'America's first family of collecting'.
Producer KEITH SHEATHER BBC Bristol (R)
Dealing with Debt
'We didn't see it as debt to start with. We just used to say "Oh we're short, we're finding it difficult to manage"... we never used to say "Oh we're in debt".'
EX-DEBTOR
With the help of families who have survived debt problems, Margo MacDonald presents a three-step guide to fighting back against debt.
Producer JEREMY ORLEBAR
Series producer TONY MATTHEWS (e)
Crystals and Lasers by Professor J. M. Thomas ,
FRS and Professor D. Phillips , PHD, FRSC, the Director and Assistant Director of the Royal Institution.
A series of six lectures 1: The Micro-world
A visit to the extraordinary micro-world of crystals and lasers where atoms are only l/10,000th of a millionth of a metre apart, and laser light pulses only l/100th of one millionth of one millionth of a second.
Over the Lakes to the Dales The first of two films in which award-winning cameraman Sid Perou follows a rally of microlight aircraft from coast to coast across northern England. Narrated by Ken Cooper Film editor BRYAN JONES
Producer DOUGLAS B. SMITH BBC Leeds (R)
The first in a season of films featuring the famous stars of the RKO studios.
Tonight also starring David Niven
In this delightful comedy, Ginger Rogers stars as shopgirl Polly Parish who discovers an abandoned baby outside a foundlings home and is mistaken for the mother. Reluctantly responsible for the baby, Polly finds that life is further complicated when her handsome boss takes a 'fatherly' interest in her predicament.
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Piano Quintet in A major, D667 (Trout)
The third of six programmes Jane Glover discusses
Schubert's most popular piece of chamber music with John Reed and introduces a performance by the Nash Ensemble.
Recorded in Margam
Orangery, near Port Talbot Lighting GEOFF ALFORD Director hefin OWEN BBC Wales
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The return of the two detectives with a habit of getting on each other's case. Starring with and Ray Charles
A Trip to the Moon
They've done it and they've kept on doing it for some months, but Maddie and David's 'relationship' continues to be the best-kept of secrets. Will she lighten up? Can legendary soul singers save his reputation? Are laundromats the ideal place for a date?
Written by GLENN GORDON CARON Directed by ALLAN ARKUSH
with John Pitman Heathrow Heathrow is the world's busiest airport - 45,000 people work here and cater for
75,000 passengers a day. Up on the roof the plane-spotters are bugging the control tower for up-to-date information; and in Terminal 3, the photographers are snapping the stars. Today it's Shirley Bassey.
Series producer ANN PAUL
Director DESMOND LAPSLEY (R) (Postponed from 18 December)
with Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
