6.45 Neurophysiology

7.10 Topology: The Projective Plane

7.35 Engineering Mechanics: Statics

8.0 Ecology: Succession

8.25 Stereochemistry of Addition Reactions

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lain Lauchlan, Elizabeth Watts and Chloe Ashcroft say Hallo Again.
Springtime, springtime, everyone's happy when the sun begins to shine,
Springtime, springtime - come on everybody and have a good time!
Musical director RICHARD BROWN Director SHEILA FRASER
Series producer BARBARA RODDAM Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE

Chris Lillicrap and David Yip with stories and songs about two very different travellers. Producer MARTIN HUGHES
Executive producer DAVID BROWN (R)

For this second Sunday after Easter, Linda Mary Evans joins Kathy Wills in her Birmingham flat for an informal act of worship which links viewers together throughout the country.
Preacher The Rev Hazel Addy Director SIMON HAMMOND
Series producer david CRAIG

Baisakhi - a harvest festival - when the plains of the Punjab vibrate with the rhythm of drums and dancing feet.
Asian Magazine celebrates Baisakhi with a seasonal bhangra dance, specially performed by The Great Indian Dancers.
Also stories and events from the communities.
Producer KRISHAN GOULD
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill

Presented by Sneh Gupta
The family quiz show which helps speakers of English as a second language improve their understanding and use of English. With guests Vladek Sheybal, Gurdial Sira, Marina Sirtis, Meera Syal

For free leaflet, How to Use Switch On to English, send large sae (12" x 9") to [address removed]

The last in the series
Presented by Brian Redhead British companies that made it - their story of recovery from recession.
The Gamble: Small Firms 'Small is beautiful' - or so they say. But the people who run small companies take great personal risks to survive. Three of them - in South Wales, Coventry and London's East End - took the gamble, and are winning. Director FIONA PITCHER
Producer BRIAN DAVIES (R)

See the news as other see it, and brush up your French at the same time.
Chantal Cuer brings you last Monday's news from France's first channel, Television
Francaise Un, and a round-up of the leading stories from the rest of Europe.
(Shown last Monday on BBC2)

Six programmes on how microtechnology can help disabled people to live more independent lives. 3: Learning
Good computer programs can stimulate and reward those with learning difficulties, and a combination of hardware, good programs and special switches can enable even severely physically handicapped children to learn.
Film editor PETER ESSEX
Producer ANNA JACKSON (R)
For illustrated booklet send sae (28p) to [address removed]
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A magazine programme for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. The first of three monthly programmes of news, views and entertainment with sign language and subtitles. Introduced by Maggie Woolley
Clive Mason and John Lee Produced by CHARLES PASCOE

with Philip Wrixon Dan Cherrington Leslie Cottington and Claire Powell Producers
KEN POLLOCK , MARTIN SMALL
Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill

for farmers IAN MCCASKILL

with David Dimbleby
Starting with News Summary The weekly look at what matters in politics. 'My aim,' says David Dimbleby , 'is to get at the truth behind the contentious issues of the moment, through reasoned discussion with those at the heart of events.'
Producers PHILIP CAMPBELL COLIN MARTIN. ELLIE UPDALE Editor PAUL NORRIS

by Bill Lyons and John Barrington.
'A good wife never hurt a copper's career, Debs'.
EastEnders line:
Bristol [number removed], Liverpool [number removed], London [number removed],
Manchester [number removed], Middlesbrough [number removed], Newcastle upon Tyne [number removed], Preston [number removed], Southampton [number removed]
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[Starring] Gregory Peck
Continuing a season of films starring one of the great names of Hollywood. Today with Win Min Than, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham, Brenda de Banzie
1945: in the sweltering heat of the Burmese jungle, the officers and men of an RAF station are increasingly disturbed by the strange behaviour of Squadron Leader Forrester. After meeting Anna, a beautiful Burmese girl, Forrester is seemingly a changed man. But his life is to take a nightmare turn when a routine flight is struck by disaster.
Gregory Peck is the embittered Forrester in this powerful adaptation of H. E. Bates's novel.
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Duck Twacy solves the piggy bank crimewave, Droopy hounds an escaped convict, and Spike shows a unique talent for disguise. Director BRUCE MILLAR
Producer DAVID plait (R)

Esther Rantzen and Gavin Campbell introduce some remarkable stories of young people who have shown extraordinary courage and determination.
The brave Lancashire boy who lost both legs when he was 3. Now, aged 5, he has been through six pairs of artificial limbs and has an amazing turn of speed round the school gym.
The Surrey blind girl who rides bikes and horses and refuses to be anything but normal.
The Essex boy who rescued his family just before their car blew up.
The Leeds girl who threw her baby brothers from the first floor window of a blazing flat. And the gentle hero who saved his friend after three days and two nights on an isolated North Yorkshire cliff. Producer ESTHER RANTZEN
Director PIETER MORPURGO (R)
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Introduced by Hugh Scully Valuable local lace is unfolded before the experts in Bedford, together with a fine collection of button hooks, two suits of armour, and a Chinese market watch made for a mandarin. Director ROY CHAPMAN
Producer CHRISTOPHER LEWIS BBC Bristol
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with Jan Leeming Weather News

from Airdrie
Airdrie in Lanarkshire is a town with a strong sense of community. Originally a market town, today it is linked with Coatbridge in the Monklands district, as this part of Scotland once belonged to a monastic community. Ian Gall meets
Alec and Fiona Stewart , who help to organise many of the youth activities, and Dr Marie Brookes talks about her work at the Accident
Emergency Department of the district hospital. Ian also hears about the savings bank which was begun by a local churchman 150 years ago. Tonight 18 congregations accompanied by the Monklands Youth Concert Brass have come to Airdrie West Parish Church to sing their choice of hymns. Stand up. stand up for Jesus (Morning Light); Jesus, Lord.
Redeemer (Camberwell); Our God reigns; Be still my soul (Finlandia); When he cometh; Will your anchor hold; I to the hills (French); The Saviour died but rose again Conductor JAMES CLARK Organist IAIN MCDOUGALL
Producer MICHAEL A SIMPSON
Series producer STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Scotland
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Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Starring Tony Hancock
featuring Sidney James

Mutual suspicion between Messrs Hancock and James leads to a midnight crisis at 23 Railway Cuttings.
(R) (Ceefax subtitles)

A major five-part series chronicling the birth of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire.

The times are dangerous for Christians in Rome and Jerusalem, but Peter continues with his mission to spread the word. He is arrested and imprisoned on the orders of Herod - but miraculous events will save him from death.

Messalina, the wife of Claudius, is the talk of Rome because of her promiscuous ways. Fearing for her life, she entreats Valerius to kill her husband - just as he helped to kill Caligula...

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with Magnus Magnusson The University of Birmingham is the host for tonight's four contenders seeking the title of Mastermind 1986. They compete in the surroundings of the Great Hall of the University.
Malcolm Highfield (police officer)
The life and works of Ralph Vaughan - Williams Vicki Black
(part-time teacher)
The Hercule Poirot stories of Agatha Christie Ralph Hawtrey (schoolmaster)
The life and works of Plato William Hamill-Keays (chartered engineer)
The British Army in the Peninsula, 1808-1813
Assistant producer MARY CRAIG Director DAVID MITCHELL Producer PETER MASSEY

with Jan Leeming Weather News

Introduced by Sheila Walsh and Alvin Stardust
Heading the impressive line-up of guests in the studio tonight is
Steve Camp , one of America's fastest-rising gospel stars Jessy Dixon
De Garno and Key Huey Lewis and the News and with another of their special songs
The London Community Gospel Choir Film cameramen
JIM PIERSON , JOHNNY AUSTIN Film sound RON BROWN
Lighting director ERIC WALLACE Series producer JIM MURRAY (Postponed from 6 April)

Peonies
Of the peony, a gardener once said, 'Had I but four square feet of ground at my disposal, I would plant a peony in the centre and proceed to worship.'
Geoffrey Smith unravels the history of this ancient flower which has been revered for centuries all over the world. Producer BRIAN DAVIES
Director ERICA GRIFFITHS (R) Book, £4.75 from booksellers

Midland Bank World Indoor
Pairs Championship
The Final (conclusion)
DAVID ICKE counts the woods that could cost so much, and talks to the winners as the last sets of the Final are played out.
Commentators
DAVID RHYS-JONES and JIMMY DAVIDSON
Summarisers MAL HUGHES and DAVID MCGILL Producers
KEITH PHILLIPS. KEITH MACKENZIE Executive producer NICK HUNTER