6.45 Technology: The Oil Game

7.10 Polymer Production

7.35 Modelling Planetary Motion

8.00 Hydrothermal Plumes

8.25 Chemistry: Transition Metals

(to 8.50)

Carol Leader, Fred Harris and Andrew Secombe say Hallo Again with songs, games and play ideas.
Story: Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary by CHARLES KEEPING Musicians
PETER GOSLING , WILL HILL Director ALISON STEWART
Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE (R)

with Sarla Maheshwari.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-
1941), considered the greatest name in Bengali literature, has been universally recognised for his poetry, prose and plays. His Gitanjali and its English translation received acclaim in the West, and in 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for
Literature.
This month marks the 125th anniversary of his birth and in today's programme there is an appreciation of Tagore's work and a performance of one of his songs by Pukar. Also Anita Bhalla talks to
Shreela Flather , the new
Mayor of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead. Producer YOUSUF AZIZ
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill

A series of five films on modern France

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 has become the focal point of a new mood of self-determination among the Occitan people, who have a historic resistance to central government.
(R)

A selection from the recent series of Micro Live. 2: At Home with the Technology
Is your home micro used only for games? Or is it just gathering dust? Fred Harris suggests some ideas for putting it to good use:
Upgrading from tape to disc Databasis
Communications
Producer TERRY MARSH
Series editor DAVID ALLEN
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Presented by Sneh Gupta
The family quiz show which helps speakers of English as a second language to improve their understanding and use of English. With guests Zeinab Badawi, Ken Hom, Tony Huq, Saeed Jaffrey
Workbook, Improve Your English Through Televison, £1.45 from [address removed]. State which language you speak. For free leaflet, How to Use Switch On to English, send sae (12 * 9") to [address removed]

The congregation of Fisherwick Presbyterian
Church, Belfast, celebrates the feast of Pentecost. Led by The Rev David Lapsley Assisted by The Rev Richard Davis
Hymns: Sing to the Lord a joyful song; Praise him, praise him; Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire; Fill thou our life
Anthems: Come. let's rejoice (Amner); Come, Holy Ghost (Atwood)
Readings: John 14. vv 15-20 (NEB)
Responsorial Psalm 145, w 1-4, 10-13 (RSV)
Gospel: Luke 4. w 1-14 (NEB)
Epistle: Galatians 5. vv 13-25 (NEB) Organist GARRY RODWAY Sound JOHN LUNN
Lighting GEORGE CAMPBELL Television presentation JAMES SKELLY
BBC Northern Ireland

Hidcote Manor
Alan Titchmarsh goes to Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire, where at the turn of the century 280 acres of farmland were turned into one of Britain's great gardens. Producer GILL BALLIN
Editor ROGER BOLTON (R)

First of five programmes presented by Gordon Honeycombe and based on his search into his own family history.
Everyone has ancestors, but few people know much about them. Were they merchants or craftsmen, Roundheads or Cavaliers, Normans or Saxons? How far can you trace your family tree? Producer BRYN BROOKS (R)
Book, Discovering Your Family History. £5.95from booksellers

featuring the news and views, politics and practice of those involved on the land. with Philip Wrixon Dan Cherrington Leslie Cottington and Claire Powell Producers
KEN POLLOCK. MARTIN SMALL
Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill

for farmers MICHAEL FISH

with Donald MacCormick
Starting with News Summary The weekly look at what matters in politics.
In live discussion with those at the heart of events, Donald MacCormick seeks the truth behind the significant issues of the day, and looks ahead to those of tomorrow. Producers
PHILIP CAMPBELL. ELLIE UPDALE Studio director VICTOR MELLENY Editor PAUL NORRIS

by Charlie Humphreys and Peter Batt.
'A real den of iniquity, that place is becoming'.
(Ceefax Subtitles)

A background look at this colourful country, its people and the World Cup venues, with stars from the three home teams.

starring
Stallion
For his birthday Little Joe is given a horse, to which he becomes very attached.
Meanwhile a poor farmer arrives at the Ponderosa - a , man whose bitterness is to have untold consequences for Joe and the magnificent animal....
Written by JACK B. SOWARDS
Directed by E w. SWACKHAMER

in Rhapsody Rabbit

Introduced by Hugh Scully
This week's programme comes from Southend-on-Sea, a favourite outing for Londoners for nearly a century.
Among the objects which delight the experts are a spinning wheel valued at £2,000, letters written by Edward Lear, and a painting by John Nightingale valued at £12,000.
BBC Bristol
(Ceefax subtitles)

Moira Stuart ; Weather News

for Whitsun from Canterbury Cathedral
On the day Christians all over the world remember the founding of the Church, young people from east Kent come together in the cradle of English Christianity to celebrate the presence of the Holy Spirit in the modern world.
Roger Royle discovers how a class of junior-school children see God. He also talks to
15-year-old Andrea Farley , who's had major heart surgery and now hopes to become a missionary; and he goes behind the scenes with some Young Friends of Canterbury Cathedral.
Christians. lift up your hearts! (Salve Festa Dies): Veni Sancte Spiritus: Seek ye first the kingdom of God: Colours of day: Breathe on me. breath of God (Carlisle): The Lord's my shepherd (Searching for lambs): When our master Jesus went away: Come down. 0 love divine (Down Ampney) Conductor
JEFFREY VAUGHAN MARTIN Organist DAVID FLOOD
Director SIMON HAMMOND Producer DAVID KREMER
Series producer STEPHEN WHITTLE
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by AGATHA CHRISTIE
The second of two parts dramatised by JULIA JONES starring
Miss Marple's instinct proves all too true. And there are further macabre twists in store. SMITH
Producer GUY SLATER Director
ROY BOULTING (R)
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with Magnus Magnusson
Tonight sees the last of the first-round programmes, with four more contenders competing for the last place in this year's semi-finals.
The location is the Great Hall of the University of Nottingham.
David Milnes (solicitor) The history of Nottinghamshire 1066-1939
Vie Bonfiglio (US Air Force) The Spanish Empire in America 1492-1815
Wendy Greene (schoolteacher)
The life of Prince Rupert of the Rhine 1619-1682
Roderick Moore (cartographer)
Narrow gauge railways of Great Britain from 1863 Lighting DENNIS BUTCHER
Assistant producer MARY CRAIG Director DAVID MITCHELL Producer PETER MASSEY

with Moira Stuart Weather News

Presented by Esther Rantzen
Consumer advice, investigations, misprints, mishaps and real-life humour drawn from the letters you send in every week. With Mollie Sugden and reporters
Gavin Campbell Adrian Mills
Grant Baynham , Doc Cox Director BOB MARSLAND
Producer ESTHER RANTZEN Editor JOHN MORRELL

with David Lomax
Week by week as the events of the news unfold, moral dilemmas, controversies and questions are raised which cannot easily be compressed into the black and white summary of a bulletin or headline.
But these questions of public and private morality affect us all and inflame passions and prejudices many of us would rather ignore or try to hide. Reporter David Lomax looks at one of these issues, talks to those who ought to know and tries to discover what is at 'the heart of the matter'. Film editor MICHAEL ALOOF
Series producer OLGA EDRIDGE

Heathers
Heathers can provide a garden with colour all the year round. But the plants which are native to Europe form just part of a much larger family whose home is in southern Africa.
Assistant producer ERICA GRIFFITHS Producer BRIAN DAVIES (R) Book, £11.25 from booksellers

A series of 11 programmes 2: The Favourites Fall
Brazil 2 Bulgaria 0 Brazil 1 Hungary 3
Brazil, World Cup winners in 1958 and 1962 and still with the incomparable PELE in their side, were many people's choice to make it a hat-trick of wins.
But in the football hotbed of the north west, the cracks became apparent when they were defeated by the exciting Hungarian team in one of the tournament's finest games. Since the footballing tussles of 1966, England full back
George Cohen has faced a far more important battle - against serious illness.
Introduced by John Motson (Portion Tuesday at 11.15pm)