6.45 Pure Maths: Conic Sections
7.10 Nuclear Weapons
7.35 Your Own Optics Laboratory
8.00 The Hydraulic Ram
8.25 Species and Evolution

The Patch Stop
Storyteller Brian Cant Music JONATHAN COHEN ProducerANNE GOBEY (R)

In the Wilderness
3: Beyond Suffering.
In the third of this Lent series from Epsom Methodist Church, introduced by Gary Davies , the preacher is the Rev David Bridge , and the service is led by the Rev Dr Peter Graves.
Readings: Matthew 16, w 21-26 II Corinthians 6, w 4-10
The head that once was crowned with thorns; There is a green hill far away; Father, hear the prayer we offer; 0 sacred head. sore wounded. Organist RONALD PERKINS
Director of music DAVID DE VILE Director STEVE BENSON
Series producer HELEN ALEXANDER

Eighth of 11 programmes. The man - Mike Kendall - and the boy - Simon King. This week: Dartmoor. Film editor JIM CRYAN Director JOHN KING BBC Bristol (R)

DIY science presented by Carol Vorderman and Professor Ian Fells. Director HENDRIK BALL
Producer GEORGE AUCKLAND (e) 0 ENTRY FORM: for the paper engineering competition send sae to: [address removed]

A series of 20 programmes 17: High Days and Holidays

A series of 20 programmes for beginners in German.
17: In Regensburg's Altstadt. Presented by Hanni Vanhaiden
Director MARION ALUNSON
Producer MADDALENA FAGANDINI (e)

Judi Spiers and Fred Harris find out how to save time, effort and money.
(e)

Weekly magazine for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Introduced by Clive Mason and Maureen Denmark , (e)

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a particularly nasty disease which means cattle have to be destroyed. It's new and unique to the British Isles. BSE has been traced to sheep and some fear it will be passed on to people.
Ian Breach looks at the strain being put on the Ministry of Agriculture's veterinary and research services and at the Precautions now being taken.
12.55pm Countryside weather with Ian McCaskill
BBC Pebble Mill

with Moira Stuart followed by On the Record Presented by Jonathan Dimbleby with John Cole.
The people and policies behind the headlines.
Reporter John Nicolson Producer DAVID JORDAN
Studio director DAVID COLEMAN Deputy editor GLENWYN BENSON editor DAVID AARONOVTTCH

by Bill Lyons and John Lewis.
'Bang, bang, you're dead. Goodbye world. No more Dennis Watts'.
(Ceefax Subtitles)

Heavyweight Championship of the World
The whole fight from Las Vegas, introduced by Desmond Lynam After weeks of legal wrangles, media build-up and Physical endeavour, Britain's Frank Bruno at last came face to face with the fearsome Mike Tyson in the early hours of this morning.
The champion, of course, was the odds-on favourite, but Bruno, in his second crack at the title, was determined to do what no British boxer has ever achieved - to win the Heavyweight Championship on American soil. Commentator
HARRY CARPENTER
Television presentation HBO Editor JOHN ROWLINSON
(There is another chance to see the Fight tonight at 10.45pm)

In March 1969, Concorde 001 flew, for the first time, at Toulouse. Twenty years later, Captain John Hutchinson, a regular member of the BBC's aviation team, is joined by Noel Edmonds and new miniature CCD television cameras in the cockpit of Concorde Alpha Bravo for a privileged view of flight
Speedbird 189 to Washington.

Producer DAVID PLATT

Are jeans fading fast? Lucy Pilkington reports on the battle for bums. Jeff Banks meets designer Nicole Farhi and Caryn Franklin has the headlines.

Introduced by Hugh Scully. A cricket bat once used in a test match and an earthenware oil lamp by Doulton -just two of the attractive objects that turn up at Newark,
Nottinghamshire.
Directors IAN PAUL. DIANE REID NICK BAMFORD
Producer CHRISTOPHER LEWIS BBC Bristol
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5: Landscapes
Photographer Charlie Waite shows Cindy Shelley how to get the best from stunning scenery on the Isle of Skye.
Producer and director FIONA PITCHER (e)
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with Moira Stuart
Weather MICHAEL FISH

fromSt David's, Pembrokeshire. Join Roger Royle in Britain's smallest city to celebrate
St David 's Day at the shrine of the patron saint of Wales. Praise to the Lord (Lobe den
Herren); Cofia'n gwlad BenUywydd tirion (Groeswen); Come, thou fount of every blessing (Hyfrydol); Great is thy faithfulness; For all the saints (Sine nomine); In heavenly love abiding (Penlan); Now thank we all our God (Nun Danket).
Conductor JOHN s. DA VIES
Researcher KERENA MARCHANT Producer DAFYDD OWEN
Series editor STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Wales
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Second of a six-part series written by JONATHAN MARR and ROSS BENTLEY starring
Incident-prone Laura finds herself involved with some high-powered villains, but considers this less daunting than becoming the butt of too many mother-in-law jokes.
Costume designer VELMA BUCKLE Make-up designer
SALLY BOUNDEN-WARREN
Mudio sound ALAN STOKES
Designer BERNARD LLOYD-JONES Produced and directed by JOHN B. HOBBS
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with Magnus Magnusson from Redbridge Community School, Southampton.
This week's contenders: Ian Verber
(hospital doctor)
The Life and Works of George Orwell. Hilary Potts
(violin teacher)
The Life and Works of Benjamin Britten. Duncan Holloway (company director)
Alexander the Great. Edwin Barnes
(theological college principal) The Life and Poetry of William Bames. Lighting GEOFF HIGGS
Assistant producer MARY CRAIG Director ANDREA CONWAY Producer DAVID MITCHELL BBCElstree

with Michael Buerk Weather

Presented by Esther Rantzen with Gavin Campbell , Adrian Mills ,
Grant Baynham and Doc Cox. Director ROBIN BEXTOR
Producer RICHARD WOOLFE Co-editor ESTHER RANTZEN Editor BRYHER SCUDAMORE

with Joan Bake well.
Moral issues are coming ever more into public awareness: the daily headlines proclaim as much. But where headlines deal in black and white, the issues are rarely so simple.
Heart of the Matter seeks out such issues;
Joan Bakewell examines the moral conflict of people with strongly held and frequently opposing views.
Film editor MIKE ALOOF
Series producer OLGA EDRIDGE

Another chance to see the Heavyweight Championship of the World plus latest reactions from Las Vegas.

Presented by Sue Robinson Batik, the technique of patterning fabric by applying wax and dyes, seems to have begun some centuries ago as a courtly pastime for the gentlewomen of Indonesia. Tonight, Mishtu Austin shows how she uses this time-honoured art to produce striking fabric pictures. Shoemaker Charmaine
Watkiss shares the lessons of her first year of self-employment and Diane Mikula finishes her traditional willow basket. Producer MARY SPRENT
Series producer DICK FOSTER (R) (e)

starring
Patrick McGoohan Richard Widmark Alan Alda
1932: with prohibition soon to be repealed crooked revenue agent
Frank Long sees the chance of a quick buck. He knows the whereabouts of a cache of moonshine, which he intends to confiscate and sell legally later. Frank reckons without his old army buddy Son Martin , who has his own ideas. This fast comedy thriller features music by Hank
Williams Jr and Roy Orbison.
Screenplay by ELMORE LEONARD based on his own novel.
Produced by MARTIN RANSOHOFF Directed by RICHARD QUINE
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