6.40 James Bond: 6

7.5 On this Side of the Grave

7.30 Management

The Little Boy and the Big Fish by MAX VELTHUIJS
Presenters Julie Stevens Carol Chell , Johnny Ball

4.55 Shapes in Atoms

5.20 Learning Difficulties

5.45 Virginia Woolf

6.10 Redlining the City

6.35 San Francisco Railway: 4

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

Introduced by Barrie Gill
Top Gear invited international teams of four-wheel-drive vehicles to decide who is King of the Country. Could cross-country cars from the US, France, Japan or Russia break the time put up by the British Rovers round a specially designed course through the mud of tank terrain in Dorset?
Director PHIL FRANKLIN
Producer DEREK SMITH. BBC Birmingham Motoring news and car tests on CEEFAX

Twelve programmes written and presented by Magnus Magnusson 11: By the Rivers of Babylon
It has been suggested that much of the Old Testament was inspired and written after the exile to Babylon in 587 bc and that 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 editor SIMON HAMMOND
Producer ANTONIA BENEDEK

James Bolam , Susan Jameson in A Land Fit for Heroes and Idiots by JAMES MITCHELL with James Garbutt , Jean Heywood
4 You better go on ahead and warn your mam and dad I'm coming. I don't want to be too much of a shock to them.'
Cast in order of appearance
One of the best-loved series in ages . ? * addictive viewing. (DAILY MAIL) ... popular television at its best.
(DAILY TELEGRAn)
Producer LEONARD LEWIS Director RONALD WILSON

Seemingly suspended in thin air, 50 of the finest free-fall parachutists in France perform an amazing ballet of the sky.
An award-winning French film without words produced and directed by HUBERT LE CAMPION

Starring Robert Donat, Robert Morley, Phyllis Calvert

Made at a time when Hitler was threatening to over-run Europe and Britain as well, Carol Reed's political drama is the story of a 24-year-old Prime Minister, leader of a minority party in a third-rate power, who soon finds himself confronting that earlier Scourge of Europe: Napoleon.
This ambitious and complex film is shown tonight in its rarely-seen complete version.
(Black and white)
Films page 11
(First showing on British television)

Raymond Baxter reports from the world's most important aircraft exhibition this year. Modern aviation techniques ... new trends ... the operators ... the designers ...
Television presentation
DENNIS MONGER. DOUGLAS HESPE
Organised by the Society of British Aerospace Companies

Weather

Stephen Thorne reads "A Storm in Summer" by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt