6.45 Telecommunications: Modulation

7.10 Gambling on Science

7.35 Technology: Brick by Brick

8.0 Genetics

8.25 Stereochemistry: Conformations

(to 8.50)

A See-Saw programme
(Rpt)

Presented by Dr Edward de Bono
A series of ten programmes about improving your thinking skills.
6: Making Decisions
Dr de Bono offers ten practical methods for making decisions. Including the dice method, the easy way out, the best home method, the ideal solution, the simple matrix and the laziness method. Director CAROLINE PICK Producer PETER RIDING
Book, £3.75 from booksellers

3: Wiring up the Organisation A microcomputer on its own can perform many useful tasks in the office but as soon as an organisation starts linking computers together into a network, its whole style of working may change dramatically, with a consequent challenge to management.
In the third of six programmes Ian McNaught-Davis continues his examination of the office technology of today and tomorrow.
Film editor JOHN DlNWOODIE Production
MIKE COCKER and DAVID ALLEN

The Commission for Racial Equality has carried out a major investigation into the Immigration Services and a report on its findings has recently been published.
Rafiq Mughal talks to Peter Newsam , CRE chairman, and David Waddington , Home
Office Minister of State, about the implications of the report. Rubeena Mustafa sings a ghazal by AHMED FARAZ. Producer YOUSUF AZIZ Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill

Floella Benjamin hosts a game show using clips from popular TV programmes to help speakers of English as a second language improve their understanding and use of spoken English. with guests Ishia Benson and Tariq Yunus
7: Using He and She
Research CAROLE MONTAGUE Director ANNE O'DWYER
Producer JEREMY ORLEBAR
For free book write to: Switch On to English, PO Box 7, London W3 6XJ

A series of five films

Occitan rather than French is the original language of much of southern France. In the Languedoc region it is enjoying something of a revival and is being seen as the focal point of a new mood of self-determination among the Occitan people.

The first of five programmes for Lent, on the theme
The Wilderness Experience This week's service is a Eucharist from St Peter 's Chaplaincy, Manchester University
'The Desert'
Celebrant The Rev
Dr Kenneth Stevenson Preacher HUDA BISHARA (international chaplain)
Organist DR NOEL PRESTON Conductor DAVID FISK
Readings: Deuteronomy 30, vv 11-20; Mark 14, vv 32-42
Hymns: God is here, as we his people (Blaenwern); Lord Jesus, think on me (St George): Christians lift up your hearts; God of grace and God of glory (Regent Square) Sound MIKE JOHNSON
Lighting ROMILLY MEAGER
TV presentation NOEL VINCENT

A series of nine programmes on how to grow and care for indoor plants.
1: Popular Plants
Geoffrey Smith shows how to look after and propagate african violets, poinsettias and pot-grown chrysanthemums and offers tips on buying them. Producer BRIAN DAVIES
Book, El.50 from booksellers

with Philip Wrixon and Dan Cherrington Producers
KEN POLLOCK , MARTIN SMALL
Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill
12.53 Weather News for farmers IAN MCCASKILL

with David Dimbleby starting with the News Summary
Studio director VICTOR MELLENEY Editor PAUL NORRIS

An omnibus edition by Gerry Huxham and Jane Hollowood.
(Ceefax Subtitles)

Dad's Army: The Two and a Half Feathers
by Jimmy Perry and David Croft
starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
featuring John Laurie as Pte Frazer, James Beck as Pte Walker, Arnold Ridley as Pte Godfrey and Ian Lavender as Pte Pike

The glorious history of L/Cpl Jones comes under a cloud when an old comrade-in-arms dredges up their service in the Sudan.

and at 3.30
Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
Written by Raymond Allen
Starring Michael Crawford as Frank with Michele Dotrice as Betty

A series of eight programmes presented by Anneka Rice 7: This week Brian Hooper enters a white water canoeing competition,
Francis Wilson finishes his three months of weight training and Windsor Davies is still in his dinghy -just. Research VICKI MOORE
Produced by PETER RAMSDEN

starring Lome Greene as Ben Cartwright
Dan Blocker as Hoss Michael Landon as Little Joe Mitch Vogel as Jamie One Ace Too Many
Bradley Meredith is a born crook, and happens to be
Ben's exact double. With a doctor accomplice, feigning illness is very easy, and so is writing Ben's will anew.... Written by STANLEY ROBERTS Directed by LEWIS ALLEN

with Cliff Michelmore
Anne Gregg , John Carter An increasing number of holidaymakers see 'touring
In foreign parts' as the most rewarding use of their vacation time. Peru promises lost cities, hidden mountain lakes, ancient Indian villages and breathtaking scenery. John Carter joins the tour. Southern Turkey is the last unspoilt coastline in the Mediterranean and is fast attracting holidaymakers who want to get away from it all. Exploring the coast sailing your own yacht has been made possible by the arrival of the flotilla holiday. Tom Savage reports.
Cliff Michelmore continues his series of films on the waterways of Britain with a holiday 'floating through
Shakespeare country' on a hotel barge.
In the studio the latest news and comment to help you with your holiday problems. Producer TOM SAVAGE
(John Carter writes about holidays every week in the THE LISTENER)

with Jan Leeming Weather News

with the Girl Guides Six hundred and fifty
Brownies, Guides, Rangers and their leaders have gathered in Chelmsford Cathedral for tonight's Songs of Praise. They're celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Girl
Guides Association, which began in controversy but today is a movement with more than eight-and-a-half million members in 108 countries around the world. Sally Magnusson meets
Amanda Webb , a 10-year-old Guide who is the ears and voice of her family, and Irene Hotchin , winner of six medals for Great Britain in the 1984 Disabled Olympics. The Third South Weald
Brownie pack invites Sally to join in the fun and the games and to visit Little
Baddow in Essex for their annual Thinking Day ceremony.
Among the hymns is one written specially for the anniversary: Let's take hands in friendship.
Lord of our growing years (Little Comard); God is love (Theodoric); Far round the world (Woodlands): Jesus good above all other (Quern
Pastores): Unto the hills around me (Alberta): Forth in thy name, 0 Lord I go (Song 34); Let's take hands in friendship
Conductor GRAHAM ELLIOTT Organist DAVID SPARROW
Film director LEUA GUINERY-GREEN Producer DAVID KREMER
Series producer STEPHEN WHITTLE *CEEFAX SUBTITLES

by Alexander Baron
A serial in ten episodes created by John Hawkesworth
with Sharon Mughan as Anne Fletcher, Rob Edwards as John Fletcher, Bert Parnaby as Sir Austin Fletcher, Peter Jeffrey as Cromwell, Gareth Thomas as Major General Horton, Joanna McCallum as Frances Neville

1657. Oliver Cromwell has to decide whether or not to accept the Kingship urged on him by Parliament. At the same time Anne Fletcher is herself faced with a momentous decision.

(Ceefax subtitles)

written by ROY CLARKE starring
Bill Owen
Peter Sallis Brian Wilde with Jane Freeman
Joe Gladwin Kathy Staff in Enter the Phantom
In his ceaseless efforts to gain the everlasting respect of one Nora Batty , Compo is encouraged by Foggy and Clegg to capitalise on his natural magnificence and fearlessness. After all, how could she fail to be impressed by a mysterious figure on a motorcycle doing 'wheelies'?
Stunt arranger STUART FELL Music RONNIE HAZLEHURST Film cameraman ALAN STEVENS
Film editor JOHN WILKINSON Studio sound ALAN STOKES Designer STEPHEN FAWCETT Produced and directed by ALAN J. W. BELL
Video, BBCV/BBCB 7028 from retailers
*CEEFAX SUBTITLES

with Magnus Magnusson from The Great Hall of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London
Richard Durden (actor)
Life of Robert Falcon Scott Clive Bettington (solicitor) The British Raj 1899-1948 Susan Vickers (lecturer)
The Diaghilev Ballet 1909-29 Simon Creswell (charity official)
The Ottoman Empire 1453-1566
Director LAURENCE VULLIAMY Producer PETER MASSEY
Book, £1.50 from booksellers

with Jan Leeming Weather News

with Esther Rantzen Consumer advice, investigations, misprints, mishaps or real-life humour drawn from the letters you send each week.
Reporters Bill Buckley Gavin Campbell Michael Groth
And at the That's Life newsdesk Maev Alexander and John Gould

That's Life: Survey on Tranquillisers, £2.95 from booksellers

starring
Some Like it Hot
There's chaos in the court when Yakov - a non-English-speaking
Russian immigrant facing charges of selling stolen goods - panics at the thought of being jailed and threatens to blow himself and the courtroom to bits.
Written by STUART KREISMAN and CHRIS CLUESS
Directed by JAY SANDRICH