Story: "Inch by Inch"
Written and illustrated by Leo Lionni
Presenters: Sam Wyse, Johnny Ball

Book, More Stories from Play School, 35p, from bookshops. The Tale of a Donkey's Tail and Other Stories from Play School, record (No 232) £1.79, or cassette (No 045) £1.95, from record shops

2.0 The Bagshot Handicap Steeple Chase (3m)
2.35 The Valley Gardens Opportunity Handicap Hurdle Race (2im)
3.5 The Embassy Premier Steeple Chase (Qualifier) (2Jm)
3.40 Dunkirk Handicap Steeple Chase (2m)
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN
RICHARD PITMAN
Television presentation DENNIS MONGER

with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing; followed by Weather on 2

Ten programmes about science in and around the house, with some experiments you can try yourself. 3: You Gotta have
Soil ALAN HIBBERT shows how to persuade your soil to be nicer to your plants, and takes a worm's-eye view of its biology.
Director JUDY HARRIS
Producer MICHAEL GaRROD

Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion on events and issues of the day. With Richard Kershaw

Newsreader Peter Woods

(For details: see BBC1)

by Malcolm Christopher

'Stones and curses go together.' A series of strange events connected with Stonehenge lead Professor Reeve, an Oxford historian, to wonder if this superstition is true.

Starring Richard Pasco as Nicholas Reeve and Judy Parfitt as Anne Reeve
with T.P. McKenna as Harvey Fenton-Jones and John Wells as Porton

The Illustrators
The work of Mick Brownfield and Allan Manham.
Every day of our lives, without entering an art gallery, we are subjected to a barrage of images created by hundreds of contemporary artists. Yet they themselves remain anonymous. They are the illustrators who draw and paint for advertisement hoardings, for magazines, newspapers, book jackets, record covers. Arena filmed two British illustrators working on their current projects.

The Swish of the Curtain
Artist Chris Orr probes the dreadful truth behind the net curtains of suburbia.

A second chance to see this BBC2 Serial in 12 parts

Series chronicling the reigns of four Roman emperors. Germanicus has been murdered in Antioch and his wife Agrippina is convinced Tiberius ordered the killing. Show more

Weather

CYRIL CUSACK reads The Lady and the Bear by THEODORE ROETHKE