6.45 Maths: Shrinking Polygons
7.10 Qualified to Work
7.35 Managing Schools: a Crisis
8.00 How Low Can You Go (2) a.25 Words to That Effect

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An open-air celebration for Trinity Sunday.
Thousands of people have gathered in the plaza in front of the ancient cathedral of Basel for an open-air service of celebration, shared by television viewers throughout Europe.
The celebration marks the close of a week-long assembly which has united, on equal footing, Anglican, Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christians from eastern and western Europe for the first time this century. Commentator
Canon Paul Oestreicher

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. This week, 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. There's progress in bookbinding and porcelain doll-making in the studio workshop, and Diane Mikula finishes her traditional willow basket. Producer MARY SPRENT
Series producer DICK FOSTER (R) (e)

Make Money Make Money A Share in the Market.
Andrew Neil travels the globe as he examines the share market.
This programme looks at how professional investors spot which shares are good value-and shows the small investor how they can use information published in the newspapers to make their own buying and selling decisions.
Producer ALAN HAYDN GRIFFITHS
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A series in five parts with some simple Italian phrases. Quanto costa? How much? Roman actress
Mirella D'Angelo discovers Umbria, past and present.
1: Hannibal, Flowers and Isola Maggiore.
Series producer DAVID CORDINGLEY (R) (e)

Eight programmes for parents of 4- to 11-year-olds presented by Johnny Ball 6: Out and About
Outings, walks in the country, just a trip to the local shop - maths lies waiting!
Produced and directed by ROBERT CLAMP
A PALACE GATE production for BBCtv (R) (e)

Life After Birth
The last of six programmes in which Sue Cook presents a practical guide to pregnancy, labour, birth - and after. Producer ANNA JACKSON (R) (e)
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A chance to see previously broadcast programmes, this time with sign language and subtitles. Today's programme, Victorian
Kitchen Garden, shows some of the tasks for May in a walled garden, restored and worked as it was 100 years ago. (e)

Every year millions of migratory birds winter on our tidal estuaries, but their feeding grounds are now under threat of permanent flooding if numerous barrage schemes get the go-ahead. Conservationists are horrified but developers insist the mud must go if they are to create jobs. Chris Baines reports.
In the Country File villagers series, the spotlight turns on Lancashire GP Terry McCree. Plus at 12.55pm the weather for the countryside with MICHAEL FISH
Producer DICK COLTHURST
Editor MICHAEL FITZGERALD

Moira Stuart with the latest national and international news followed by On the Record
Presented by Jonathan Dimbleby with John Cole
Labour - The Quest for Power In his first major interview since the launch of the much-awaited policy review, Opposition Leader
Neil Kinnock looks ahead to the next election and beyond. The big question for him is what a Labour victory would mean to the people of Britain. Can the party really deliver a healthier economy, more for the NHS and a huge increase in our civil liberties? Producer DAVID JORDAN
Studio director VICTOR MELLENEY Deputy editor GLENWYN BENSON Editor DAVID AARONOVITCH

by Tony McHale.
"I'm sorry... it's Vicki. I know she's ill."
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Today:
Pink Bananas
Crane-Brained
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India
Jeff Banks meets Faith and John Singh in Jaipur, whose company Anokhi provides much needed employment to villages using traditional dyeing and printing techniques.
The Maharajah of Jaipur talks about Indian style and the influence of seasons, family occasions and religious festivals.
Videotape editor NIGEL EVANS Produced and directed by ROGER CASSTLES. (R) revised
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with Desmond Morris and Sarah Kennedy
Does the American cowboy really ride the fastest horse on earth?
Why is the Queen Mother passionate about Buff
Orpingtons? Which birds do Arab sheikhs prize above oil? Desmond and Sarah find out when they follow in Chaucer's footsteps to Canterbury.
In the city that launched the RSPCA over 100 years ago, they learn that the British love of animals still produces the unexpected. En route, they joust with the horses that carried Richard the Lionheart to the Holy Land and encounter the chickens that roared and brought London to a standstill.
Sarah meets the pet that plays such a big role in the off-screen life of Wendy Craig.
She also experiences the joys of playing fostermother to a baby gorilla.
And John Aspinall explains why he has gambled everything for his love of the great apes that he says are superior to man.
Research JOANNA SARSBY Director DAVID WALLACE Producers IAN CHRISTIE
POLLY PHILLIPS
Editor DAVID MARTIN BBC Scotland
(Postponed from 2 April)
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with Moira Stuart
News and comment from Britain and around the world.
Weather

with Chris De Burgh and the Fureys.
In a series of six programmes of music and conversation with Ireland's most popular personalities, Val Doonican explores the spirituality and beauty of his homeland.
Chris De Burgh invites Val to his home near Dublin and tells of the way his music is influenced by his Irish roots and beliefs.
Then Finbar Furey , leader of one of Ireland's top groups, takes Val to Glendalough, the site of the ancient monastic settlement that was once a beacon of Christianity shining over Europe.
Musical director LAURIE HOLLOWAY Research JUDITH PEERS
Producer SIMON HAMMOND
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based on the books by JAMES HERRIOT
Ace, King, Queen, Jack by TERRY HODGKINSON starring Christopher Timothy Robert Hardy , Peter Davison Lynda Bellingham with John McGlynn and Margaretta Scott.
Calum tickles a few trout, Tricki Woo enters the dog show and Bramble the cow with a wink is a success.
Produced by BILL SELLARS
Directed by ROD GRAHAM (R)
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with Magnus Magnusson from the Speech Room, Harrow School.
The third semi-final with fourmore hopeful contenders. Malcolm Robertson
(composer) Life and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Anthony Simpson (company director) History of the House of Rothschild
Ron Wood (clergyman) Greek Mythology
Tom Bean (farmer) Life and Novels of Anthony Trollope Lighting GEOFF HIGGS
Assistant producer MARY CRAIG Director ANDREA CONWAY Producer DAVID MITCHELL BBC Elstree

Michael Buerk ; Weather

Presented by Esther Rantzen. with Adrian Mills
Grant Baynham , Gavin Campbell and Doc Cox. Director STEPHEN STEWART Producer ESTHER RANTZEN
Deputy editor BRYHER SCUDAMORE Editor SHAUN WOODWARD

Armenians
On 7 December 1988, Soviet Armenia suffered a devastating earthquake. It was a catastrophic end to a year of political protests there which had put
Gorbachev's reforms to their severest test. Yet it is not just in the Soviet Union that the Armenians have made their mark. In the West they have tried to get official recognition for what they regard as their greatest tragedy: the events of 1915 when they claim the Turks tried to wipe out their people. It is a claim the Turks have always denied.
This film follows the fortunes of a people whose grievances have become a political factor East and West, a people who refuse to be ignored.
Reporter ROSEMARY HARIILL Film editor RICHARD SEEL Producer OLGA EDRIDGE
Everyman editor JANE DRABBLE

with Jenni Murray
For 2,000 years the Church of England has ordained male priests. Women can only serve as deacons, yet many feel called to priesthood. Why does the Church deny them? As the debate rages,
Jenni Murray examines the issues which threaten to divide the Christian community in this country.
Picture editor STEVE HOLDSWORTH Producer SARAH PITT

2: 1939-1945
Andrew Sachs with his wife, Melody, talks to Rudi Htibler who as a schoolboy drew while Berlin burned, to Ellen Jannings whose Jewish mother 'disappeared' and to Mrs Joan Plato , an Englishwoman blitzed by the RAF.
Producer BERNARD ADAMS (R) (e)