6.40 Educational Research Methods

7.5 Carbohydrates

7.30 Probability Models

Today's story
Little Raindrop Written by ANNE SHERWOOD
Presenters
CHLOE ASHÇROFT and JONA JðNES
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

The National Hunt Festival
BBC outside broadcast cameras cover four races on Gold Cup day, the climax of the 1977 Festival.
2.30 Daily Express Triumph Hurdle (2m 200yds)
The season's top newcomers from Britain and Ireland clash in this championship for four-year-olds.
3.5 Kim Muir Memorial Challenge Cup (Handicap) 'Chase (2m If)
3.40 Piper Champagne Cheltenham Gold Cup 'Chase (3m 2f 76yds)
Can Lanzarote become the first horse ever to complete the Champion Hurdle/Gold Cup double - and give Fred Winter his first Gold Cup win as a trainer? The prize is over £23,000.
4.15 National Hunt Handicap 'Chase (3m If)
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Outside broadcast presentation by BARRIE EDGAR and RICHARD TILLING Editor -ALAN HART

4.55 Concorde Case Study (3)

5.20 Simulation Modelling

5.45 Baroque Stringed Instruments

6.10 The European City

6.35 Guernsey: Land and Water

with subtitles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

Brush up your reading and writing With BRIAN REDHEAD and RAY BROOKS
JULIA MCKENZIE
BRIAN WILDE
Script BARRY TOOK

Presented by Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler including every Thursday UK Report from BBC news correspondents in Britain
With Richard Kershaw , David Sells Newsreader Richard Whitmore

Vladimir Nabokov was born in St
Petersburg in 1899. Since leaving Russia after the revolution he has lived in Cambridge, Berlin, Paris and the United States, where he became Professor of Russian Literature at Cornell University. For the last 16 years his home has been the Montreux Palace hotel by the lake of Geneva. NABOKOV plans his interviews carefully - questions must be submitted in advance. The answers are written out on cards, as finely wrought as his works of fiction - Pale Fire, Pnin, Laughter in the Dark and, of course, Lolita.
Robert Robinson talked to
Vladimir Nabokov recently in Montreux.
Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYATT

Derek Nimmo with his guests of the week.
Designer SIMON BARUGH Director JOHN B. HOBBS
Producer GARETH GWENLAN

A series of 12 programmes Written and presented by Magnus Magnusson 9: A House Divided
With the death of Solomon, about 930 BC, his united kingdom splits in two. Kings and queens like Jezebel, Ahab and Jeroboam emerge from the Books of Kings ruling over a new kingdom of Israel in the north and following many of the abominated Canaanite ways. Gods like Baal are worshipped again, bitterly opposed by the Hebrew prophets Elijah and Elisha with their emphasis on Jehovah as the One True God.
Meanwhile in the south the Kingdom of Judah struggles to maintain that true way of Jehovah from its capital, Jerusalem. In Ahab's palace at Samaria, MAGNUS MAGNUSSON treads the very paths that
JEZEBEL LOOKED OUT AT THE
WINDOW ... AND JEHU SAID,
THROW HER DOWN.
So THEY THREW HER DOWN'
Queen Jezebel trod and in Jerusalem he explores the rock-hewn tombs built into the hillside for the palace favourites of a queen of Judah.
Bible reader Eric Porter
Series adviser JAMES B. PRITCHARD Music JOHN RUTTER
Film cameramen JOHN HOOPER , JOHN else Film editor DICK ALLEN
Executive producer DAVID COLLISON Producer PAUL JORDAN

Less than two weeks before Mr Healey 's budget, the Chancellor is faced with a swelling chorus of discontent about wage restraint. How has the Social Contract worked so far? Should it stay? And if so, in what form? Who should get what?
Robin Day takes the chair at the Royal Institution of Great Britain for a debate on how Mr Healey should carve the national cake with a hungry audience of wageearners, employers, housewives, managers, pensioners and union leaders.
Director PETER MASSEY
Producers JOHN DEKKER and ANTONY rouse

The Centenary Test Australia v England by satellite from Melbourne
RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the final day's play that took place in the presence of HM The Queen Commentators JIM LAKER
FRANK TYSON , KEITH MILLER
PAUL SHEAHAN , NORMAN MAY
Presented in association with the AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING COMMISSION Producer DAVID KENNING

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