6.40 Childhood in Victorian Literature

7.05 Napoleon

7.30 The Drawings of Seurat

Story: Old Winkle and the Sea-gulls, written and illustrated by ELIZABETH and GERALD ROSE Presenters:
CAROL LEADER, JOHNNY BALL

The Grand National Meeting
2.30 George Hurdle (2m)
3.5 Alpen Mildmay Trophy Chase (2m)
3.40 Weetabix Hurdle (2m)
4.15 Burton Latimer Novice Handicap Chase (3m)
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
Plus the latest news of tomorrow's big race, and interviews with leading personalities.
Introduced by TONY GUBBA
OB presentation by FRED VINER RICHARD TILLING , DAVID KENNING Editor ALAN HART

5.0 Science and Belief: Fontenelle

5.25 Maths Analysis: Bounds

5.50 Semiconductors

6.15 Enthalpy

6.40 The Imperial Roman Army

A series of eight programmes presented by Geoffrey Smith 2: A good return for effort
There's that special satisfaction a gardener gets when he picks vegetables he's grown himself. This week GEOFFREY SMITH plants potatoes, sows broad beans, lettuce, raddish and spring onions, and shows how to beat the cold weather by using cloches.
Series producer PETER RIDING Director BRIAN DAVIES

with Robin Day , Richard Kershaw and Peter Woods
The News and an interview.

Travelling Man
! For my own part, I may say that before I commenced photography I did not see half the beauties in nature that I do now ...'-
(SAMUEL BOURNE)
The landscape photographer of the 1860s had to carry with him not only a camera but his portable dark-room. Samuel Bourne trekked through the foothills of the Himalayas to make a record which has never been surpassed. Narrated by BRIAN COE
Curator of the Kodak Museum
Quotations spoken by HUGH BURDEN
Series adviser AARON SCHARF
Producer ANN TURNER

A Rose with Thorns
When Portugal's 50-year dictatorship collapsed, the revolution was seen as a rose. Two years later the rose has not withered but with 15 per cent unemployment many Portuguese are feeling the thorns. Graham Turner reports.
Assistant editor PAUL ELLIS Editor JOHN DEKKER

Ian McNaught Davis presents a new panel game featuring the identification of extraordinary inventions of the past and present.
Using their powers of deduction and wit are resident experts Professor Eric Laithwaite, William Woollard and their guests Joan Bakewell, Dr Magnus Pyke
BBC Bristol
Preview: page 13

A light-hearted look at the relationship between men and women. with Judith Arthy Jacqueline Clarke Derek Griffiths Julia McKenzie
James Smilie , Ralph Watson
Musical director BURT RHODES Script editor AUSTIN STEELE Designer PAUL MUNTING
Producer PETER WHITMORE

by Andrew Davies

'You said I'm a teacher as if that makes me into a boss. I'm just someone who has to be here, same as you.' Redfern, a student teacher, thinks today's educational system is all wrong...

(Martyr to What System? a discussion on teacher training: 10.55 pm)

The third in a series of programmes about writers and their world Maurice Edelman at Hughenden
The Labour mp, MAURICE EDELMAN , who died last December, wrote two novels about Disraeli, in whom he had a life-long interest. At Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, where Disraeli lived for 30 years, Maurice Edelman talked about the rise of a young man with no connections, good looks, and a desire to win a place in society, who became a best-selling novelist, Prime Minister, and a favourite of Queen Victoria.
Cameraman ELMER cosset Editor DAVID THOMAS
Series producer DAVID HEYCOCK Director ANNE JAMES

Is there a better way-to train our teachers? Do the right people decide to teach? Traditional or progressive theories?
After tonight's play DAVID JESSEL chairs a discussion about the way teachers are selected and trained.
Producer FRANCES WHITAKER

with Peter Woods ; Weather

STEPHEN THORNE reads Note to the Hurrying Man by BRIAN PATTEN