7.40 Optical Microscopy

8.5 Energy Distribution in a Gas

8.30 Ions in Solution

8.55 Sulphuric Acid

9.20 Biotechnic Community

9.45 The Coal Face

10.10 1944 and After

10.35 Regional Analysis: Lancashire

11.0 Ford Interview: 2

11.25 School and Society

11.50 Electricity and Magnetism

12.15 Maths: Matrix Transformations

12.40 Analysing Social Interaction

with Kenneth Kendall
Editor BILL NORTHWOOD

Students of different denominations team up to answer questions on world religions, with some help from Dana and Peter Moloney Julian Chagrin sets more mime problems This week:
London (North) v Cardiff In the chair Joan Bakewell
Researcher JOHN WILCOX Producer ROBERT TONER

Gaucho
The gaucho is Argentina's version of the cowboy. But while the cowboy of North American legend disappeared long ago, in some parts of Argentina the gaucho remains very much as he always was; tough, proud, independent, with his own half-savage code of conduct.
On a cattle ranch in the remote north-eastern province of Corrientes, the gaucho has changed least of all. He dresses like the gauchos of 100 years ago and retains old customs and skills at horse-breaking and cattle herding through the roughest terrain.
Four hundred miles to the south, near the big city of Buenos Aires, the gaucho cult has become sophisticated and self-conscious. Here, myths have grown up around the gaucho, myths that can obscure the fact that in some remote parts of Argentina the gaucho lives on. Narrator JORGE DURRIEU
Film editor PETER BARBER Producer JULIAN COOPER
Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS and CHRISTOPHER PARSONS

and presents his special guest Twiggy in a programme of his songs including 'She,' 'The Old Fashioned Way,' 'Yesterday When I Was Young' and his newest recording 'You.'

Weather

conducts
The London Symphony Orchestra leader john BROWN in a performance of Shostakovich Symphony No 5
In 1936 Shostakovich became the target for many .bitter attacks-political and artistic. In his native Russia his music was ignored; professionally, most of his colleagues shunned him.
Despite this, his reply was not a mumbled apology but the courageous, magnificent Fifth Symphony. He called it ' An artist's reply to just criticism.' Its theme - ' The Making of a Man.' ' I saw Man with all his experiences in the centre of the composition, which is lyrical in form from the beginning to the end.'
Script by ANDRfi PREVIN
Sound GRAHAM HAINES
Lighting W. O. JONES
Producer HERBERT CHAPPELL

from a story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Starring Vincent Price with Elizabeth Shepherd, Derek Francis, John Westbrook.

At the funeral of his wife Ligeia in 1821, Verden Fell outrages the parson by shrugging off the suggestion that she was not a Christian; in any case, he says, she is not dead. A black cat screeches, and Ligeia's eyes open in the coffin ...

(This Week's Films: page 19)

Hugh Burden reads
On the Seventh Day by ALAN BOLD