6.40 Educational Decision-making

7.5 Structure of Lysozyme

7.30 Sweden; Industrial Democracy

The Ladbroke Grand National
Meeting
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you two of the races from the first day of the Liverpool Spring Meeting.
3.40 Allied Manufacturers' Handicap Hurdle (2m)
4.15 Greenall Whitley Foxhunter 's 'Chase (2m 6f) Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN , JULIAN WILSON RICHARD PITMAN and JOHN, HANMER Introduced by DESMOND LYNAM
Outside broadcast presentation by FRED VINER , RICHARD TILLING and NICK HUNTER Editor ALAN HART

4.55 Control in the Community

5.20 Air Traffic Control

5.45 Baroque Wind Instruments

6.10 Language and Learning

6.35 Hockett's Design Features

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

A Parents and Children series of 15 programmes on the emotional and physical experience of pregnancy and the first weeks of life. 2: Starting a baby isn't always as easy as people imagine. This week CLAIRE WOOLFORD looks at conception and fertility. How do you work out when conception can take place? Why do some people take longer than others to get pregnant? And once you are pregnant, should you have your baby at home or in hospital? With a ' problem page ' by CLAIRE RAYNER .
Graphics DOUG BURD
Film editor PETER ORTON
Research JOHN BROOKE
Producer DICK FOSTER

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 Baker

First Impressions
The Book Programme's monthly edition in which guest critics review a selection of the month's top titles in conversation with Robert Robinson.
This month's critics are Lord Snow
Robert Rhodes James , MP and Germaine Greer
Among the books are Christopher and his Kind - an autobiography by CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD , and Blind Ambition - the inside story of Watergate by the man who testified against Nixon, JOHN DEAN.
Studio directorsue MALLINSON Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT
Executive producer WILL WYATT

A cautionary tale by GERBEN HELLINGA
Something strange happened recently one dark night in a street in Amsterdam! Police were called out, fire engines, reporters - because a young couple and their small baby were evicted from their home in a block of flats ...
with the English voices of DAVID STOCKTON, JUDY CORNWELL, RITA WEBB, DAVID COLLINGS and GEORGE LITTLE
Director PIETER VERHOEFF
Dubbing director MICHAEL BAKEWELL
Produced by VPRO Holland

A series of 12 programmes Written and presented by Magnus Magnusson
11:By the Rivers of Babylon
-Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon sent the leading citizens of Jerusalem and Judah into exile in Babylon in 587 bc. Fifty years later Cyrus, King of the Persians, the new master of the ' Bible Lands ', returned the Jews to their city and allowed them to rebuild the Temple. But what happened during those 50 years ' by the rivers of Babylon '? It has been suggested that this was when much of the Old Testament was inspired and written-the time when priests and scribes compiled the story of the Children of Israel to help them keep faith in their past and provide hope for the future. It's a controversial theory and tonight MAGNUS MAGNUSSON considers it against the background of the rise and fall of the Babylonian empire.
Bible reader Eric Porter
Film cameramen PETER HALL , JOHN HOOPER Film editor SIMON HAMMOND
Executive producer DAVID COLLISON Producer ANTONIA BENEDEK

Fritz Lang Season , starring
Barbara Stanwyck , Paul Douglas Robert Ryan , Marilyn Monroe
Barbara Stanwyck plays Mae Doyle , the girl who marries a fishing boat skipper for security but cannot resist the appeal of his best friend, a flashy and cynical braggart.
Director FRITZ LANG
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Weather

But it was the great International Humour Conference of Psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and otherologists from the academic world - including Professor Ken Dodd of Knotty Ash University. So on the eve of All Fools' Day Barry Took , Alan Coren , Gwyn Thomas and Dr Anthony Buffery view highlights from proceedings at the conference, and wonder ... can Humour be put under the microscope?
Producer DEREK TRIMBY BBC Cymru/Wales