6.45 Technology: Eurekaargh!
7.10 After the Earthquake
7.35 Poverty in the 30s
8.00 Physical Chemistry:
How Do Molecules React?
8.25 Maths Methods:
Complex Exponentials

The Playbus stops today at the Playground Stop where the children find different ways of making sounds and Lizzie decides she likes peace and quiet. Presented by Dave Benson Phillips.
Puppeteer: Jane Eve. (R)

Pauline Webb joins students from the chaplaincy at the University of Sussex for the second in the series of special worship programmes for Lent. The worship is led by the Roman Catholic chaplain, The Rev Raglan Hay-Will . The preacher, The Rev Dr Colin Morris , continues his examination of the nature of God. Director Steve Benson
Producer Chris Loughlin

A Telly Addicts family finds out about fitness and food from Hearty Eater duo
Leslie Waters and Sally Ann Voak; financial expert
Alison Mitchell goes on a money diet; DIY fixer Harry Greene gets to grips with a storm-damaged fence; and there's another evergreen tip from top tipster
Barty Phillips.
Join Janice Long in the marketplace of ideas. Director David Wheeler

Twenty programmes for beginners in Italian, featuring film specially shot in Italy.
19: A tour of Etruria, ancient land of the Etruscans in southern Tuscany, and around Lake Bolsena in northern Latium.
With Lilly Lembo Lambert and Enrico Verdecchia.
FUm cameraman Remi Adefarasin Producer Maddalena Fagandini (R)
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Would you like to choose your own coffin? Is a cemetery the right place to build a restaurant? Why paint a mausoleum pink?
Chantal Cuer presents a single film. Necropolis, which takes a haunting and sometimes wry look at death and the rituals that surround it.
Assistant producer Sara Green Series producer Fiona Pitcher
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A series on ways to improve your mental health. This week, ex-insomniaes talk about how to re-establish good sleep without pills. Director Catharine Seddon
Producer Suzanne Davies (R)

Twenty programmes to help you read, write and communicate more effectively. Presented by Chris Serle. 13: Do you feel nervous if you have to speak at a meeting or in a group?
Wordpower this week offers some practical techniques to help build your confidence. Producer John Fagan
Studio director John M A Lane
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A practical guide to healthy eating.
2: Grains offer a whole range of healthy food that's delicious, filling, cheap, nutritious and even helps us stay slim - and you don't have to go to a health food shop to find them. Best of all, they're full of fibre: essential to our health and well-being.
Presented by Liza Goddard. Producers Anna Jackson and Sally Kirkwood (R)
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A magazine programme for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. News, views and entertainment, with sign language and subtitles.
Presented by Clive Mason and Maureen Denmark and interpreted by John Lee and Brenda Mackay. Producer Eddie Montague Series producer Ian Woolf

With rabies endemic in France, does the Channel Tunnel pose a threat to
Britain? No, according to most of the experts. But there is growing concern about the spread of the killer disease. Rupert Segar looks at how the French have been tackling the problem, and what we have to learn from their experiences. Plus the weather for the countryside at 12.55pm with Ian McCaskill. Director Michael Murphy Editor Michael Fitzgerald BBC Pebble Mill

With Moira Stuart followed by On the Record
The Inscrutable Electorate
According to opinion pollsters, the pound in the pocket will decide the outcome of the next election. But increasingly this assumption is coming under fire. Market researchers say they discern a new 'spirit of the age': a desire for a gentler, kinder society. Emily Buchanan tries to find out what kind of people we really are, and what influences our votes.
Presented by Jonathan Dimbleby with John Cole.
Producer Nick Robinson

Omnibus by Paul Doust and Helen Millar.
The sparks fly when the Butchers face their family problems. Pat is determined to hold everything together, but she may have chosen the wrong time to pick a fight with Frank.
(Ceefax subtitles)

Featuring live coverage of one of the outstanding FA Cup quarter-final ties with highlights of the other three matches. Plus the draw for the semi-finals live from
Lancaster Gate.
Introduced by Desmond Lynam.
Comment from Jimmy Hill. Commentator: John Motson. Reporters: Bob Wilson , Tony Gubba and Gerald Sinstadt. Producer Vivien Kent
Series producer John Shrewsbury Editor Brian Barwick

June Whitfield has news for the elderly who feel that their 'get up and go' has 'got up and gone'!
With Prof Archie Young and Dr Stuart Biddle. Producers Peter Ramsden and Alan Russell
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As everyone's thoughts turn to spring, Britain's fashion designers have other ideas - for autumn/winter 90/91.
Selina Scott , Jeff Banks and Caryn Franklin report on London Fashion Week. Producer Clare Stride
Executive producer Roger Casstles BBC Pebble Mill

Sevres plates with false marks, a silver dachshund with a detachable head, a toy aeroplane to delight a grown-up, and an early chestsk on-chest ingeniously cut in half to fit a house - a rich mixture of treasures shown to the experts when they visit Hornchurch in Essex.
Introduced by Hugh Scully. Director Diane Reid
Producer Christopher Lewis BBC Bristol
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Three programmes linked to No Smoking Day on 18 March next week.
1: Anne Robinson (40 a day for 20 years) prepares to quit with the help of ex-smokers, volunteers and the Royal Corps of Transport.
Producer David Cordingley
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With Moira Stuart.
Weather

From Wimbome Minster.
The narrow streets of this
Dorset town huddle round the twin-towered minster.
But there's more than history here, as Debbie Thrower discovers. Skilled volunteers show her the help that's offered to patients and carers by PRAMA - the Pain Relief and Management Association - and she also meets traffic policeman Bill French.
0 Praise Ye the Lord': 0 God. Our Help in Ages Past; Be Still, for the Presence of the Lord: As the Deer
Pants for the Water. Stand Up! Stand Up for Jesus!; Abide with Me:
Meekness and Majesty: The Day Thou Gavest. Lord, Is Ended. Organist Sean Tucker Conductor Chris Dowie Producer Stephen Lynas Editor Roger Hutchings BBC Bristol
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Written by George Layton. Starring Tony Britton Nigel Havers
4: Toby has spent weeks writing a special article for a medical journal and then, just as he finishes it. it goes missing.
Producer/Director Harold Snoad
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Starring John Nettles
Episode by Cyril Williams. Bergerac is caught up in a violent underworld as, single-handed, he tries to solve a case of kidnapping in London.
Series creator
Robert Banks Stewart Music Ray Russell
Costume designer Barrie Sedwell Film editor Frank McLean
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Four contenders from the south of England and the Channel Islands are competing for a place in the semi-finals, in the dramatic setting of the Great Hall at Winchester.
Maurice McGrave (reference librarian) The science fiction of Brian Aldiss; Isobel Osmont (wife/mother) The German occupation of the Channel Islands, 1940-5; Brian Sims (retired lecturer) The life and works of Ravel; Paul Bradley (cartographic draughtsman) Geography of Australia.
With Magnus Magnusson.

BBC Elstree

Real life humour, mishaps. special investigations and consumer stories drawn from the 10.000 letters you send every week.
With Esther Rantzen , Gavin Campbell , Adrian Mills , Howard Leader , Simon Fanshawe and Doc Cox. Editor Shaun Woodward
Deputy editor Bryher Scudamore

With Martyn Lewis. Weather

Every week a human story in the headlines challenges us to think again about our values.
Every week Joan Bakewell reports on such a story and explores the dilemmas it presents not just for those involved, but for us all. Film editor Mike Aloof
Series producer Olga Edridge

From Nova Scotia's Atlantic port of Halifax.
Barry Davies introduces the medal-winning moments and the title-losing lapses from the past week's competition in the Metro Centre. The last world championships in Canada were dominated by Torvill and Dean's Bolero farewell in Ottawa. Six years on, Christopher Dean joins Alan Weeks in the BBC commentary box to describe the Halifax highlights. (Revised repeat tomorrow at
3.00pm on BBC2)

Starring Judd Hirsch
John is cheered by the news that his ex-wife has dumped his ex-best friend and manages to forgive him -just.
Based on the BBC series by John Sullivan

Brilliant comets have been rare over recent years, but Austin's Comet, now brightening as it moves into the northern part of the sky, may become really spectacular, with a bright head and a long tail. In this programme Patrick Moore is joined by Harold Ridley , one of Britain's leading observers of comets, to explain what, hopefully, is in store during the coming weeks.
Producer Pieter Morpurgo

West Indies v England
Highlights of the second-day's play in the Second Test from Georgetown.
Introduced by Tony Lewis.