6.40 Television and Politics - Britain: 2

7.5 The Mindful Way

7.30 Cloister to Cloister?: 2

Four races from the final day's card.
2.15 Sceptre Stakes (5f)
2.45 Ormonde Stakes (1m 5f 88yds)
3.15 Ladbroke Adelphi Club Handicap (7f)
3.45 165th year of Dee Stakes (1m 2f 85yds)

4.55 Maths - Complex Series

5.20 Hotel and Catering Industry

5.45 The Victorian Reading Public

6.10 Analysing Hyde Park

6.35 Banking

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. 4: Tony Davies
Rejected by the Royal College of Art, where he wanted to study industrial design, he studied electronic engineering ' because the pass rate was the best of all the engineering subjects at West Ham.' Still in his early 30s, he now owns his own firm making specialised electronic testing equipment turning over £1.5m a year.
Research MARY SPRENT
Producer MICHAEL GARROD

Presented by Michael Charlton and Richard Kershaw with David Sells Newsreader Richard Whitmore

A reconstruction of life on an Ancient Britain farm. The last of 12 programmes: February
The Iron Age village during the closing weeks of the project. The group talk about the skills they have attained and their feelings about returning to the outside world. The archaeologists take over and give an assessment of the project as a whole, its failures and its successes.
Film cameraman DAVID SAUNDERS Sound recordist TOM BROWN Film editor TOM POORE
Produced by JOHN PERCIVAL. BBC Bristol

with Peter Seabrook from Springfields, Spalding
The Springfields Horticultural Society was formed in 1966 to promote the study and practice of all branches of horticulture, not only of the bulbs and corms for which the gardens are famous. This evening, PETER SEABROOK looks at the lake, stocked with ornamental carp and water plants, at the model gardens and the shrub and conifer borders.
Produced by BARRIE EDGAR BBC Birmingham

Today Israel celebrates its 30th anniversary. Thirty years ago James Cameron stood on the quay-side at Haifa and watched the Union Jack come down for the last time on a British Mandate. Hours later, in Tel Aviv, David Ben -Gurion proclaimed the independence of the state and created a new nation.
And now JAMES CAMERON returns, once again, to Israel to find out what kind of a state it has become. In what ways has it fulfilled the hopes and dreams of its founding fathers? A state which has known no peace in its time, in which nearly all its citizens are soldiers - just how militaristic is it? A state with many of its inhabitants oriental immigrants and Arabs - does it have its own ghettos and second-class citizens? A state which puts into practice the kibbutz ideals of communal living-do these ideals have any meaning to its young people today? A state with two thirds of its land inhospitable sand - how far has it managed to turn the desert green?
Written and narrated by JAMEf: CAMERON
Research TRISTAN ALLSOF
Film cameraman NAT CROSBY Sound recordist SIMON WILSON Film editor IAN PITCH
Producer EDWARD MIRZOEFF
Tonight in Israel: 11.5 pm BBCl

Starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
As a tribute to Irving Berlin, celebrating his 90th birthday, tonight's vintage musical is Top Hat, for which he wrote "Cheek to cheek" and "Isn't this a lovely day" in one of his most successful film scores.
Fred and Ginger are also in top form, with a cracking supporting cast making the most of the comedy of errors which begins in London and ends in Venice.
(Black and white).
Films: page 10

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