1Care for the Elderly How should New Zealand care for its senior citizens? While it is natural to worry about one's elderly relations, it is unclear whether we worry due to a real concern for their welfare or a sense of duty or guilt? There is discussion over whether older people should be left to live independently, with help on offer if they need it, or placed into rest home care where they can be looked after, at a price both financial and emotional. Alternatively, the elderly can be taken into one's home. What are the responsibilities of the younger generation towards the elderly? When should they simply mind their own business and allow senior citizens to make their own decisions? Discussion and viewer talkback with Dr Tudor Caradoc-Davies, a Geriatrician at Dunedin Public Hospital who has recently completed a survey looking at what the elderly themselves want.

2The cast of Coronation Street, as well as more than 1000 fans, have said goodbye to actress Pat Phoenix at a flamboyant funeral service at a church in Manchester. Phoenix is best known for her role as Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street.

3The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has called on Israel and its Lebanese allies to withdraw from southern Lebanon in favour of a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping force. However, Israel says it will not comply.

4A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

5Care for the Elderly How should New Zealand care for its senior citizens? While it is natural to worry about one's elderly relations, it is unclear whether we worry due to a real concern for their welfare or a sense of duty or guilt? There is discussion over whether older people should be left to live independently, with help on offer if they need it, or placed into rest home care where they can be looked after, at a price both financial and emotional. Alternatively, the elderly can be taken into one's home. What are the responsibilities of the younger generation towards the elderly? When should they simply mind their own business and allow senior citizens to make their own decisions? Discussion and viewer talkback with Dr Tudor Caradoc-Davies, a Geriatrician at Dunedin Public Hospital who has recently completed a survey looking at what the elderly themselves want.

6A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

7Care for the Elderly How should New Zealand care for its senior citizens? While it is natural to worry about one's elderly relations, it is unclear whether we worry due to a real concern for their welfare or a sense of duty or guilt? There is discussion over whether older people should be left to live independently, with help on offer if they need it, or placed into rest home care where they can be looked after, at a price both financial and emotional. Alternatively, the elderly can be taken into one's home. What are the responsibilities of the younger generation towards the elderly? When should they simply mind their own business and allow senior citizens to make their own decisions? Discussion and viewer talkback with Dr Tudor Caradoc-Davies, a Geriatrician at Dunedin Public Hospital who has recently completed a survey looking at what the elderly themselves want.

8A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

9An update on the latest of the superpower manoeuvrings in the continuing effort to secure a leaders' summit between United States President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

10A massive manhunt is underway in the United States for an ex-convict wanted for three murders that police have chased across three States so far.

11Update on an item from a couple of months ago about professional killers in the UNited States who advertised their services in the national gun magazine Soldiers of Fortune. The ads have stopped, but the murder for hire business continues. A look at the contract killers, their customers and their victims.

12Australia has just held the official launching ceremony for one of their America's Cup defenders, Australia 4.

13Efforts are being made to find new homes for two chimpanzees, ten kangaroos and four dingoes, the last residents of what was once Australia's biggest private zoo, Natureland Zoological Gardens.