6.40 Baroque Solo Concertos

7.5 Renaissance Spectacle

7.30 Rodin

(Full details on BBC1 at 4.0 pm)

5.0 God said, Let Newton be

5.25 Maths Analysis: Differentiation

5.50 Tensile Testing

6.15 Carboxylic Acids

6.40 The Weissenhof Siedlung 1927

A series of eight programmes Presented by Geoffrey Smith

Artichokes, green peppers, garlic and sweetcorn are traditionally thought difficult to grow in Britain. Geoffrey Smith shows that with a little care they can be grown successfully even in the North.

with Robin Day, Richard Kershaw and Peter Woods

The News and an interview.

Champions of Crown Green Bowling compete for the BBC2 Masters Trophy

Brian Duncan (Lancashire PA) v Keith Beaman (Staffordshire)
The defending Master gets the series off to a most exciting start.

Introduced by Tony Gubba from the green of the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool.

BBC Manchester

John Maynard Keybes revolutionised economic thought in the 30s, tellng British governments to spend their way out of unemployment. But now, 30 years after his death, the price of that revolution is being paid: mounting inflation and chronic trade deficits. Did Keynes plant an economic time-bomb that would turn revolution into economic anarchy?

James Bellini investigates.

Ian McNaught Davis presents a panel game featuring the identification of extraordinary inventions of past and present.
Resident experts Professor Eric Laithwaite, William Woollard
Guests: Valerie Singleton, Professor John Taylor

BBC Bristol

SS Rotterdam sails on another floating Jazz Festival from New York to Nassau, Bermuda, and back. 'Satin Doll', 'Night in Tunisia', ' St Louis Blues' and 'Take Five ' - the best version we've ever played, according to Brubeck - are among the treats. Over a dozen concerts took place on board - covering all the classic jazz styles. Featuring Dave Brubeck with 'Two Generations of Brubeck', Paul Desmond, The Duke Ellington Orchestra directed by Mercer Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, The World's Greatest Jazz Band. Commentary, Peter Clayton

BBC Manchester

The last of six programmes about writers and their world.

Hugh Casson on "Lark Rise to Candleford"

Flora Thompson, whose trilogy "Lark Rise to Candleford" is regarded by many as a masterpiece, grew up in North Oxfordshire in the 1880s with little money and few prospects. Hugh Casson, the newly elected President of the Royal Academy, has for many years had a particular love for Flora Thompson's work and her unique account of life in a country hamlet at the turn of the century.

by Denis Plimmer and Charlotte Plimmer

'Dear Alan... I'm still in the old job, His Excellency's most excellent chauffeur...'

with Peter Woods; Weather

Richard Bebb reads "A Butterfly" by Andrew Waterman