Kacing from Ascot
1.35 Hurst Park Novices' Steeplechase (2m)
2.5 Charles Davis Handicap Steeplechase (2m)
2.35 Kirk and Kirk Hurdle Race (2 1/2 m)
3.5 Kirk and Kirk Handicap Steeplechase (3m)
The 13th running of this valuable 'Chase which 12 months ago was won by the subsequent Gold Cup winner Midnight Court
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN , RICHARD PITMAN International Tennis
The Benson and Hedges Championships from Wembley Arena
Quarter-finals day in Europe's major indoor event which offers a record £90,000 prize money and a late chance for the players to acquire Colgate Grand Prix points for The Masters final in January. Introduced by DAVID VINE
Commentators DAN MASKELL , JOHN BARRETT , PETER WEST , MALIK COX
TV presentation:
Racing DENNIS MONGER
Tennis FRED VINER , JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

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

Towed in a Hole
A Hal Roach film

A series of six programmes 3: Dyfed
A Walk through Winter
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path stretches 167 miles from St Dogmaels in the north to Pembroke in the south. In summer it is bustling with tourists and walkers. In winter its beauty is stark and elemental.
Charlie Rose and Stella Malr Thomas traverse the northern section from Caemaes Head to St Ann 's Head.
Commentary DONNIE B. MACLEOD
Photography DICK JOHNSTONE Film editor JOCK CLARK
Producer NORMAN MCCANDLISH BBC Scotland

Weather on 2

First of ten programmes
Presented by Angela Rippon who, with her special guests up from the country, introduces some of the people, places and events that have attracted Country Game through the year.
This week: Fair Game
ANGELA RIPPON visits the home of Phil Drabble to see how his 90 acres of woodland not only proVide him with hours of pleasure Watching wildlife, but also game for his freezer.
With her other guests, Gordon Beningfield and Elizabeth Eyden , Angela discusses the aims and Weals of the naturalist, game-keeper and field sportsman in today's countryside. Director ROBIN HELLIER
Produced by PETER CRAWFORD
C Bristol

David Holmes , BBC Political Editor, presents a weekly insight into the world of politics and outlines the conflicts and consequences, Editor PAUL NORRIS

The Big Sleep

Astronauts would like to hibernate on the way to the outer planets; rich men would like to have their dead bodies frozen for a later cure; surgeons would like to put some of their patients into hibernation as a means of buying time; and many of us wish we could sleep through the winter like bats or hedgehogs just because it's such a cosy idea.

A look at the world's leading hibernation research projects shows that the apparently simple business of dozing off for the winter is, in fact, an extremely difficult trick to learn. The only hope is that the whole process is triggered by a special 'hibernation hormone'. It hasn't been found yet, but more than one laboratory is hot on the trail.

Narrator: TONY BRITTON
Film editor: CHRISTINE GARNER
Editor: SIMON CAMPBELL-JONES
Written and produced by STUART HARRIS

The fourth of six distinctive shows

Special guests Kate Bush and Randy Edelman

With Arlene Phillips Dancers
Choreography Arlene Phillips
Musical director Richard Niles
Vocal backing Glow

Weather

The Benson and Hedges Championships
The pick of today's quarter-final matches at the Wembley Arena.

Introduced by Pete Drummond This week: Lindisfarne from Essex University, Colchester Director
TOM CORCOISIN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON

Competition Poem
RONALD PICKUP reads The Pickers Bring Blood by HUBERT MOORE