6.40 Oedipus Tyrannus

7.30 Schooling for the Masses

Story: The Plant Sitter by GENE ZION. Illustrated by MARGARET BLOY GRAHAM Presenters
Delia Morgan , Chris Tranchell

4.55 Maths: Complex Analysis

5.20 The Interested Parties

5.45 The Baroque Organ

6.10 Control Systems

6.35 Being Black

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

With BRIAN REDHEAD and MADELINE BELL
IAN LAVENDER
ARTHUR LOWE

Presented by Michael Charlton and Richard Kershaw with David Sells
Newsreader Angela Rippon

from a house plant nursery at Broxbourne.
The versatility and variety of pot plants is unlimited, from exotic displays of tropical plants in office and hotel foyers, to a modest spider plant in the smallest flat. With Mothering Sunday three days away, Peter Seabrook talks to William Davidson , a specialist in house plants, to seek his expert advice on the choice and care of plants for your home.
Produced by BARRIE EDGAR BBC Birmingham

A reconstruction of life on an Ancient British farm.
A group of young people live and work on a replica of a prehistoric Iron Age settlement at a secret location in the West of England. Cut off from the modern world, the group try to re-create the way of life of Celtic tribesmen in the third century BC. A series of 12 programmes tell the story of their lives over 12 extraordinary months.
2: April: Difficulties and delays.
BBC Bristol

An international table tennis tournament in which eight of the world's top players compete for the Norwich Union Trophy.
The players are divided into two groups of four and play each other on a ' round robin' basis with the top two from each group going through to the semi-finals. The first match features Desmond Douglas
England's No 1 player against
Dragutin Surbek, from Yugoslavia, ranked No 5 in the world
Introduced by PETER WALKER Commentators TONY GUBBA
ALAN RANSOME
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

starring James Earl Jones Jane Alexander
When a black boxer seems likely to win America's boxing crown for the first time, a massive search is launched to find a great white hope to beat him. The search proves fruitless and Jack Jeffer son becomes the first black champion. The Establishment, however, have no intention of letting him get away with it: if they cannot beat him in the ring, they will put him down another way. Jefferson's white mistress seems a likely line of attack ...
Written by HOWARD SACKLER from his Pulitzer Prizewinning play.
Directed by MARTIN RITT. Films: page 12 (First showing on British television)

Weather

A series of 15 programmes in which Bryan Magee talks to 15 leading philosophers about Western philosophy today.
7: The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy with Bernard Williams , Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge University.
Since language is a human invention, our sentences can have no meanings over and beyond what we ourselves give them: the meaning of a word is its use. This was the central doctrine of the linguistic philosophers. PROFESSOR WILLIAMS talks about the spell it exercised over a whole generation.
Series prepared by BRYAN MAGEE Director TONY TYLEY
Executive producer JANET HOENIG
(A shortened version of this discussion will appear in THE LISTENER dated 9 March)

RICHARD BEBB reads
Water by LESLIE NORRIS