6.45 Pure Maths in Perspective
7.10 Exploring Education: Stowe and Stanonbury
7.35 Volunteers and Social Management
8.00 Physics: Phonons
8.25 Religion: the Passover Among Yemeni Jews

The Dot Stop
Dot stops at three and finds three mice and three ships.
Storyteller lain Lauchlan Musician SARAH HOMER Music PAUL READE
Director JOHN PROWSE
Producer MICHAEL COLE (R)

with Bryan Murray and Sharon D. Clarke
Where would you find Sikhs
Playing in a West Indian steel band and Christians performing Hindu dancing? Director CELLA THOMSON Producer JUDY MERRY BBC North West (R)

Gary Davies introduces a simple service of prayer and reflection from the home of Pat Eaton in Stevenage.
Canon Paul Oestreicher looks at why choosing the Christian life isn't a soft option.
Reading: II Corinthians 6, VV 1-10
Director VALETTA STALLABRASS Producer CHRIS LOUGHLIN

The programme examines the movements of vectors and considers some 'special directions'.
Producer JOHN JAWORSKI (R)

In the second century, Gallia Narbonensis in southern France became an important meeting place of Greek, Roman and Gallic culture.
Producer PETER WALTON

An animated adventure story set against the backdrop of western Australia's Great
Victoria Desert.
1920: young Ali and his grandfather set sail from Arabia to find work.
They are hired as camel drivers on what becomes a disastrous trip across the desert. Reluctantly, Ali must set his favourite camel free with her baby Binta and return to his own country. Years later an Australian boy, Peter, finds and befriends the now fully-grown Binta who mysteriously wears a talisman inscribed with the name 'Ali'. Who was this camel boy and whatever became of him?
Screenplay by JOHN PALMER Produced and directed by YORAM GROSS
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Book Worm Turns

Weekly magazine programme for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Introduced by Clive Mason and Maureen Denmark.

This year in the United
Kingdom there has been a record outbreak of 'crop circles', those unexplained shapes which appear in fields of wheat and barley.
In Running Rings Around Arthur Anne Brown investigates the various theories on why Wessex in particular is a target. Plus at 12.55pm the weather for the countryside
With BERNARD DAVEY.
Producer MICHAEL FITZGERALD BBC Pebble Mill
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with Moira Stuart followed by Bonanza starring and The Hidden Enemy
The new doctor in Virginia City, James Wills , is slowly gaining the town's respect - until an injured boy dies during an operation and a terrible secret is revealed.... Written by STANLEY ROBERTS and JACK B. SAUNDERS
Directed by ALF KJELLIN (R)

by Gerry Huxham and Juliet Ace.
"I want to give Carmel a really nice surprise."
(Ceefax subtitles)

starring
Frank Sinatra
Edward G. Robinson Eleanor Parker Thelma Ritter.
As always,
Tony Manetta 's big dreams far outweigh his bank balance. A widower, he is not only threatened with eviction from his run-down Miami Beach hotel, but in asking his staid older brother for money he faces losing his devoted young son too. In this sentimental comedy, Frank Sinatra plays the irrepressible dreamer whose Philosophy is summed up in the Oscar-winning song High Hopes.
Screenplay by ARNOLD SCHULMAN based on his play
Produced and directed by FRANK CAPRA
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Presented by Gloria Hunniford and Dr Alan Maryon Davis Even those who are famous for being fit have difficulty keeping fit and healthy. Ex-football player and manager of Arsenal, Terry Neill , joins the trio of contestants playing tonight. His opponents are Ken Elbourne from Yorkshire and Eileen Simons from Hertfordshire.
Gloria referees the match and Dr Alan Maryon Davis keeps the score. Terry is hoping for no 'own goals'.
Directors ERIC HARWOOD and PHILLIP CASSON
Producer FRANK HAYES
A HAWKSHEAD production in association with PROSPECT PICTURES for BBCtv (e)
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and First Impressions
Jessie is shocked by a robbery at the local supermarket, and a further surprise awaits her when she is introduced to Kris's new friend.
Written by CHRIS BEAUMONT Directed by RAY AUSTIN

The first of tonight's two programmes presented by Chris Baines.
What on Earth Can I Do?
All right, so you're not going to save the rainforests singlehandedly, but there are all sorts of local jobs you can do which will help the environment. And great oaks from little acorns grow. (e) (Part 2 is at 10.50pm)
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with Moira Stuart ; Weather

Thora Hird celebrates the rich mixture of cultures and experience which people have brought to Britain. She meets Rabbi Lionel Blue whose grandparents arrived in London but thought they were in America. She also recalls the songs of praise from children of different faiths in Derby Assembly Rooms. Praise to the Lord. the almighty
(Lobe den Herren); In the presence of your people (Israeli circle dance); Flickering candles; 0 little town of Bethlehem: Immortal, invisible, God only wise (St Denio); I cannot tell (Londonderry Air); Come, let us praise the Lord (Chilean folk tune); Hills of the North, rejoice! (Little Cornard); Thy hand, 0 God, has guided (Thornbury) Assistant producer
VALETTA STALLABRASS Producer NOEL VINCENT BBC North West
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based on the books by JAMES HERRIOT
The Playing Field by TERRY HODGKINSON starring
Mr Wiggin is transformed by a diet of westerns into a lasso-whirling cowboy.
Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON Producer BILL SELLARS
Director ROBERT TRONSON (R)
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with Michael Buerk ; Weather

A drama series in eight parts devised by JOHN HAWKESWORTH and BRIAN THOMPSON written by BRIAN THOMPSON starring and featuring
Angela Browne Martin Jarvis
Mark Kingston Phyllida Law
Sebastian Shaw
John Stride with 2: A Wonderfully Wrong Thing
Michael is determined to restore Chelworth to its former glory and reunite his family under its roof - a decision which meets with almost universal dismay.
Music JAMES STEVENS
Film editor PAUL GARRICK
Photography PAUL v. WHEELER Designer GEORGE KYRIAKIDES Produced by JONATHAN ALWYN Directed by BRIAN FARNHAM
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with Joan Bakewell.
The public are becoming ever more aware of moral issues - the headlines proclaim as much. But where headlines deal in black and white, the issues themselves are rarely so simple.
Heart of the Matter seeks out such issues; Joan Bakewell examines the moral conflict between people with strongly held and frequently opposing views, and considers what their dilemma means for everyone.
Film editor MIKE ALOOF
Series producer OLGA EDRIDGE

The second of tonight's programmes presented by Chris Baines.
The Balancing Act
For people with 'green' sympathies, surely there can be nothing better than getting out into the countryside to recharge your batteries and remind yourself what it's all about? The trouble is, even this causes environmental damage.
Too many enthusiastic feet erode the landscape. And although that damage can be repaired, it is very rarely the people who cause it who have to pay up.
Producer RON BLOOMFIELD (e)
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starring and Win One for Felix
It's rough, it's tough and it's definitely un-Unger, but taking on the job as coach to a boy's football team is
Felix's last hope of getting closer to his son. Oscar offers expert advice, but sometimes a man's got to do what a man's got to do - on his own.
Written by ARTHUR JULIAN Directed by JACK DONOHUE