6.40 Social Psychology Laboratory

7.5 Management in Education

7.30 Language and Learning

Story: "The Junk Shop" by Jean Watson
Presenters: Carol Chell, David Hargreaves

BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you four races from the first day of the 1976 Festival, together with slow-motion analysis and interviews with the leading trainers and jockeys.

2.30 'Sun Alliance' Novices' Hurdle (21m)

3.5 National Hunt Two-mile Champion Chase (2m)
Evergreen 12-year-old Royal Relief seeks his third success in seven successive appearances in this race - the most important two-mile Chase of the Season.

3.40 Joe Coral Golden Hurdle Final (Handicap) (3m)

4.15 The Sun Alliance Steeple-chase (3m 100 yds)
Northern champion Forest King seeks his tenth win in 12 races this season.

Introduced by Julian Wilson

5.0 Open Forum: Course Construction

5.25 BBC Selection Board (2)

5.50 The Cotton Industry

6.15 Genetics

6.40 Atoms, Elements and Isotopes (1)

A 24-part French course for beginners on tv and radio.

Presented by Gilles Dattas
with Christian Brumell as Michel
Claude D'yd, Andre Maranne, Alain Mergnat, Annick Roux

(Repeated on BBC1 Wed 12.5 pm, Sun 10.10 am. Ensemble radio programmes: Wed 7.0 pm (R3 medium wave) and Sun 3.0 pm (R4 VHF)

Books 1 and 2 (same title), £1.30; records 1 and 2, £1.73, or cassettes 1 and 2, £2.81 from bookshops

with Ludovic Kennedy, Robin Day, Richard Kershaw, Angela Rippon brings you the News and an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines.

Introduced by Robert Robinson

John Updike began writing as a staff man in The New Yorker. Since then he has written a string of successful novels - such as "Rabbit Run", "Couples", and "A Month of Sundays". "Picked-Up Pieces" is a new collection of his non-fiction and in an interview filmed in his apartment in Boston he talks about The New Yorker magazine, "Couples" and some of the things which have preoccupied him - sex, clergymen and success.

Also Richard Condon, author of "The Manchurian Candidate" and food columnist, and Margaret Powell, who wrote "Below Stairs", review a selection of recent books on cookery.

A special challenge match featuring two of the world's greatest golfers
Peter Oosterhuis v Tom Weiskopf

Henry Longhurst introduces the final match of the series which is played over nine selected holes of the King's Course at the Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland.

With the British celebrities having beaten the Americans by seven matches to two, Tom Weiskopf challenges Peter Oosterhuis in a head-to-head battle that provides a superb golfing occasion and an exciting climax to the series.

The BBC Book of Golf, £1.30, from bookshops

In Search of a Champion

From Buttermere, Phil Drabble and Eric Halsall introduce the last heat of the television sheep-dog trials.

Three farmers representing Wales guide unusually awkward sheep round the course for a place in the semi-finals:
Meirion Jones, with successes in the Welsh National and International Championships, with Jaff: 'strong, forceful and sincere.'
Gwyn Jones, a former Supreme Champion from Snowdonia, with Bill: 'placid, wise and powerful.'
Glyn Jones, a Welsh National competitor and former Supreme Champion, with Gel: 'a one-man dog full of his own importance.'

Investigates, Discovers, Questions with Jeremy James, Jeanne la Chard, Jack Pizzey, Nick Ross, Harold Williamson.

Each week a documentary programme that analyses an issue, a problem, or a row that concerns us all. This is your chance to examine the facts behind the headlines, the stories beyond the news, to hear the questions you want asked, put to the men and women who have the answers.

presents Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea, who says: 'In any society there are artists who create styles for the future. It's a trademark of the band that we go on evolving our sound, so that when we play audiences expect to hear something new and innovatory. The latest album "Romantic Warrior", combines jazz, rock and classical music to create an image of medieval times - and that's the theme of our current European tour.'

Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Al Dimeola

In a concert from the Television Theatre in London

Introduced by Bob Harris

Angela Rippon; Weather

Gary Watson reads "The Craft of Fiction" by J.D. Hall