7.40 Isambard Kingdom Brunel

8.5 Earth History: 2

8.30 Foundation Maths - Equations

8.55 Time Base Generator

9.20 Ethology

9.45 Geophysics of Cyprus

10.10 Beethoven

10.35 Nurture Groups

11.0 James Bond: 4

11.25 Choice in Education

11.50 Rhondda: 3: A Question of Identity

12.15 Coal Power

12.40 Curriculum Design and Development

1.5 Brake Testing

1.30 Lyell on Etna

The John Player League
With only two weeks left in this thrilling competition, the title is still open. Who will pick up the £2,500 first prize?
ESSEX and LEICESTERSHIRE are the front runners but every game is vital.
PETER WALKER introduces the programme which includes news from all today's matches:
Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire Glamorgan v Lancashire Hampshire v Kent
Leicestershire v Warwickshire Middlesex v Sussex
Somerset v Gloucestershire
Worcestershire v Northamptonshire Yorkshire v Essex
Commentators JOHN ARLOTT and JIM LAKER
Television presentation
NICK HUNTER and MIKE ADLEY Se,ries producer BOB DUNCAN
(BBC Wales only: GLAMORGAN v LANCS)

A digest of the news of the week plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear with Kenneth Kendall
Editor BILL NORTHWOOD

Clare Francis - Sea Bird
Yesterday CLARE FRANCIS set off from Portsmouth in a bid to win
The Whitbread Round-the-world Race-the longest and toughest ocean race ever devised. In her last international event-the classic Observer Singlehanded - she astounded the sailing world by setting a new record for the fastest crossing by a woman, even beating Sir Francis Chichester 's best time by a whole day.
She also had the courage and stamina to film in the most appalling conditions-her amazing diary of events vividly conveys the exhilaration, the fear and the loneliness of racing under sail alone across 3,000 miles of unfriendly ocean. Written and narrated by FRANK PAGE
One of the most thrilling true-life adventure films ever seen on television
(THE SUN)
Producer BOB SAUNDERS
Series editors MICHAEL ANDREWS and ANTHONY ISAACS . Preview: p 13

Weather

James Herriot
Portrait of a Bestseller
Introduced by Melvyn Bragg
In this documentary profile JAMES HERRIOT talks to MELVYN BRAGG about his upbringing in Glasgow, his life in Yorkshire and his work as both vet and writer.
Herriot's second career began only some ten years ago. ' It was my wife who pushed me into it. For 30 years I'd, been saying I was going to write a book and one day she turned around and said " men of 50 don't write books". That stung me. I went right out and bought a pile of paper and got stuck in.' In 1970 his first novel, If Only They Could Talk was published. Though warmly praised by reviewers it achieved only moderate sales. Two years later It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet appeared and this was so successful with readers that letters poured in asking for further instalments. Herriot is now a best-selling writer not only in Britain but also in Spain, Japan and the United States. Two of his stories have been made into popular feature films.
Executive producer BILL MORTON Director BOB LOCKYER

by MRS GASKELL
The BBC2 Serial. Dramatised in four parts by DAVID TURNER : part 2
Mr Hale has left the Church and is working as a tutor in a Northern industrial town. Times are hard for the mill workers and a strike is threatened.
Cast in order of appearance
Producer MARTIN LISEMORE
Director RODNEY BENNETT

The World of Marcus Helvius
Geminus, a Roman who lived between AD 30 and 65. A series of 13 programmes with Robert Erskine
8: High Finance
' Geminus is appointed to the Imperial Treasury during the reign of Nero, who was renowned for
: his extravagance. The money flowed out and the remedy they thought of led to creeping inflation - and ultimately disaster.
Director PHILIP CHILVERS
Producer BETTY WHITE

A French film starring Michele Mercier
Robert Hossein , Giuliano Gemma
The adventures of France's ' most tantalising heroine' ran through several best-selling novels before this sumptuous version was made. Considering that she is growing into a hoyden, Angelique's family send her to stay with some more sophisticated cousins. There she overhears a plot to murder King Louis XIV - and immediately finds herself despatched to a convent for five years. When she eventually returns home, Angelique learns that she is to be married immediately to the crippled, but rich, Count Joffrey de Peyrac.
Director BERNARD BOR ,DERIE. Films: page 10 (First showing on British television)