28 January 1980

Monday 28 January

1980-01-28

TV

 * BBC Two
 * 6.05 pm James Burke's Connections Distant Voices
 * 10.20. pm Russian - Language and People. A series of 20 programmes. Learn a little Russian and look at daily life in the Soviet Union. 3: The Russian Alphabet, part 3. Also, how to find your way around Moscow with one simple question; games Russians play: a look at Russian sport.
 * 10.45 pm Newsnight The first edition of the BBC's new programme of news and current affairs which will tell you what's going on in the world and why. Peter Snow is joined by Peter Hobday, Charles Wheeler and John Tusa to lead the team which will assess each day's most significant events, present special reports from the BBC's correspondents at home and abroad, and investigations into what's going on behind the headlines by Newsnight's own team of reporters. Up-to-the-minute summaries from Fran Morrison in the newsroom; sports news each night from David Davies; and the latest, weather report at 11.15.