1Novelist Kingsley Amis has won the prestigious Booker Award for his novel The Old Devil.

2Funeral Planning An independent funeral director believes New Zealanders should take more care with planning funerals in order to ease the pain of the mourners. Discussion and viewer feedback with independent funeral director Rodney Murphy. about what a funeral should be.

3A brief listing of the national and international news headlines.

4Funeral Planning An independent funeral director believes New Zealanders should take more care with planning funerals in order to ease the pain of the mourners. Discussion and viewer feedback with independent funeral director Rodney Murphy. about what a funeral should be.

5A brief listing of the New Zealand news headlines.

6Moscow has ordered another five American diplomats out of the Soviet Union and 260 Russians who work at the United States Embassy and Consulate have been told to leave their jobs. However, they say that arms control progress made at the Iceland Summit is unaffected by the tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions.

7One of the leaders of the United Democratic Front (UDF), Reverend Arnold Stofile has been detained once again under South Africa's security laws. Meanwhile, the Dutch Reformed Church, favoured by most White South Africans, has opened up its doors to people of all races. However it is not believed that it will attract many Black or Coloured South Africans.

8The United States' top medical authority, the Surgeon General has released the results of his personal investigation into the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic, and lists education about the disease as top priority.

9Although the United States was not officially involved in the Spanish Civil War, idealistic young Americans joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to march with the left wing cause against the Fascists. Some of those men revisited Spain this week to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of their youth.