6.40 The Suez Crisis

7.5 Maths: Numerical Methods

7.30 Nutrition Feeding and Digestion in Animals

(Details as BBC1 at 4.0 pm)

The Grand National Meeting
Four races from the first day of the Liverpool Spring Meeting.
2.30 Greenall Whitley Foxhunters' Chase (2m 6f)
3.5 Littlewoods Spring Cup (lim)
3.40 Arena Sports Advertising Stakes (1m)
4.15 Topham Trophy Handicap Chase (2m 6f).
Including 16 of the Grand National fences.
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN, JULIAN WILSON, RICHARD PITMAN and JIMMY LINDLEY
Introduced by TONY GUBBA
OB presentation by FRED VINER, DAVID KENNING and RICHARD TILLING
Editor ALAN HART

5.00 Earth Science Topics

5.25 Curriculum Design and Development

5.50 Cognitive Maps

6.15 Soviet Agriculture

6.40 Analysing Social Interaction

A 25-part language course in Italian for beginners and near-beginners
Programme 24 Introduced by MARISA DILLON-WESTON
Scripts ALFIO BERNABEI and ROMOLO BRUNI
Director TERRY DOYLE
Producer TONY ROBERTS
Book (same title), £ 1.00: records 1 and 2 £ 1.20 each, or cassettes 1 and 2 £ 2.70 each, from bookshops

with Robin Day , Ludovic Kennedy Richard Kershaw and Angela Rippon
Every weekday evening brings you the News and a longer look at the important questions of our time with the men and women involved.
Associate producer JOHN REYNOLDS Producer CHRISTOPHER CAPRON

Anthony Mayer , an experienced observer of the Indian scene, has travelled widely in India with Mrs Gandhi and recorded hours of conversation with her. This film throws new light on the enigmatic Indira Gandhi and conveys her view of the events of the last few months, also the years leading to them, as well as her justification of her declaration of a State of Emergency in India which has raised major questions about the fate of democratic government there and, indeed, throughout the Third World.
Mrs Gandhi , the Prime Minister, claims that overriding social and economic problems demand the restriction of civil freedom. She argues that the press and opposition politicians turned these freedoms into a licence for irresponsible action. But her own actions have focused a storm of controversy on India: an unknown number of people have been imprisoned, censorship of the press and other controls have been introduced, even the rule of law has been threatened. After years of allowing free access, India now inhibits the movement of foreign correspondents, reporters, writers and film-makers.
At the centre of it all-Mrs Gandhi, accused of dictatorship, convinced of her own rightness. This is her view of her country.
This is the first of an occasional series of programmes in which world leaders take a highly personal view of their own societies.
Producer ANTHONY MAYER

starring
Kyle Johnson , Alex Clarke Estelle Evans , Dana Elcar
In the small Kansas town of Cherokee Flats, in the mid-20s, black teenager Newt Winger grows up. In a world made by white men, he learns the meaning of life, love and death.
Written, produced and directed by GORDON PARKS . Films: page 8

Dirk Bogarde in conversation with Tony Bilbow looks back at the last eight years of his film career since he left Britain to make his home in Europe.
"I learned so much from Visconti that I thought I couldn't learn - it's like learning from George Cukor who taught me practically everything I know and Jessie Matthews who really taught me the basics years before ..."
The interview includes extracts from "Death in Venice"; "The Night Porter"; and "Permission to Kill".

with Angela Rippon ; Weather

STEPHEN THORNE reads
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by SIR WALTER RALEGH