6.40 Television and Politics - Britain (Il)

7.5 The Roaring Silence

7.30 Biscuits (1)

Story: A Surprise for the King by ANN REAY and MIKE ROSEN Presenters
Chloe Ashcroft , Stuart McGugan

4.55 Quantum Theory and Atomic Structure

5.20 Control: A School Experiment

5.45 The Novel and TV (1)

6.10 Complex Human Ecosystems (2)

6.35 Pearl Harbour

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

Ten films about the fascinations, the frustrations and the working environment of professional engineers.
2: Mike Neale
Consultant tribologist, steam-roller owner and cottage-restorer, he is this year's President of the Whitworth Society. His conference on flexible couplings attracted worldwide participation and a Brighton civic reception.
Research MARY SPRENT
Producer MICHAEL GARROD

The news, the people, the issues in Britain and around the world presented by Michael Charlton and Richard Kershaw with David Sells
Newsreader Richard Baker
Assistant editors
PETER IBBOTSON and GEORGE WALKER Editor DAVID WITHEROW

from Clacks Farm with Arthur Billitt and Peter Seabrook In America, runner beans are grown as ornamental plants. Arthur and Peter take a hard look at one of our most popular vegetables-white or red or Dink flowered? Canes, nets or wigwams for support? And the perennial problems of pollination and pest control. They will also be looking at outdoor tomatoes and other summer crops.
Produced by BARRIE EDGAR BBC Birmingham

A reconstruction of life on an Ancient Britain farm.
A series of 12 programmes

The Iron Age village prepares for the winter. Lindsay and Peter return home with the children and the others regret their departure. The villagers experiment with metal working.

BBC Bristol

The last of 15 programmes in which Bryan Magee talks to 15 leading philosophers about Western philosophy today.
Philosophy: The Social Context with Ernest Gellner , Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology, London School of Economics.
In this final programme in the series ERNEST GELLNER and BRYAN MAGEE set contemporary philosophy against its social background and show how its central concerns have arisen out of deep-seated historical changes in the Western world. They end with a discussion of probable future developments.
Series prepared by BRYAN MAGEE Director TONY TYLET
Executive producer JANET HOENIG
(A shortened version of this dtscussiM will be in THE LISTENER dated 4 May)

Weather

The Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
The Final begins
\Ian Weeks introduces highlights of the llth day's play from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Best of 49 frames, £7,500 to the winner - it all adds up to a tense struggle as the finalists begin their marathon match. Commentator TED LOWE