6.40 Is it Significant?

7.5 Modulation

7.30 Education in Britain

The last of five programmes Negotiation
Produced by TONY MATTHEWS

Story: Alexander's Flycycle Written and illustrated by ELIZABETH HOSE and GERALD HOSE
Presenters Sarah Long , Brian Cant

The National Hunt Festival
Four races from the opening day's card.
HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother today formally opens the New Stand at Cheltenham to herald the start of the 1979 Festival.
2.30 Sun Alliance Novices' Hurdle Race (2½m)
3.5 National Hunt Two-mile Champion 'Chase
1978 winner Hillyway seeks to give the Irish their fifth successive win. This, the most valuable event of the opening day, is worth £20,000.
3.40 Coral Golden Hurdle Race Final (Handicap) (3m)
4.15 Sun Alliance 'Chase (3m)
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
Introduced by Julian Wilson
Produced by RICHARD TILLING and JOHN SHREWSBURY
Racing results service on Ceefax

4.50 Iron

5.15 Cells and Organisms

5.40 Concorde Case Study: 1

6.5 The Hindu Tradition

6.30 Into the Earth

1797-1828: a series of five programmes that traces in sequence Schubert's life and music. 4: Maturity- 1826-1827 With members of The Songmakers' Almanac FELICITY LOTT (soprano)
ANTHONY ROLFE JOHNSON (tenor) RICHARD JACKSON (baritone) GRAHAM JOHNSON (piano) and KATHARINA WOLPE (piano) NarratorDEREK JACOBI
Script devised by GHARAM JOHNSON
Producer WALTER TODDS. Director RON ISTED (Postponed from 23 November 1978)
(Ncxt Tuesday: The Final Year, 1828)

A series of six programmes in which animated film-makers eavesdrop on real conversations and let their imaginations run riot. 3: Down and Out
' For 30 years I never could get a bed in this house - and I've only just come out of Broadweir Baths. '
Animators DAVID SPROXTON , PETER LORD Producer COLIN THOMAS. BBC Bristol

including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

Presented by Jeremy James
The top seeds of this International Knockout Chess Tournament battle for the first prize of 11,500 and The Master Game trophy.

Bent Larsen (Denmark) v Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)
Both players have been candidates for the world championship.

The moves of this game will be printed in The Listener dated 15 March

A duel of words and wit between
Frank Muir
Joanna Lumley Miles Kington and Patrick Campbell Rula Lenska
Ian Wooldridge
Referee Robert Robinson
Call My Bluff devised by MARK GOODSON and BILL TODMAN Director ALAN BELL
Producer JOHNNY DOWNES

Investigates, Discovers, Questions This week:
Thieves on Wheels
The motor car is a push-over for the amateur thief, a dead cert for the professional; this most expensive of possessions - after a house - is protected with the cheapest of locks. Nearly 1,000 cars are stolen every day in Britain and it's getting worse.
On film, Michael Dean follows the trail of these missing cars and talks to a smoothly efficient ' retired' car thief, bewildered victims, unperturbed manufacturers, frustrated policemen and teenage joy-riders. In the studio, Nick Ross asks the experts - a top policeman, the editor of Motoring Which, and a man from the motor trade -how do we stop the stolen car epidemic ...?
Producer ROBYN WALLIS Editor TIM SLESSOR

In tonight's new series of Wide World of Entertainment the spotlight beams on to one of America's top television entertainers as he presents his stage show to 4,000 enthusiastic United States Air Force personnel in the giant 'Hangar 711' of RAF Mildenhall.
With ROY CLARK are guests Barbara Fairchild Buck Trent and Poacher
Musical backing by THE RODNEY LAY BAND with ' FANCI '
Director RICK GARDNER Producer DOUGLAS HESPE

Weather

takes a look at the contemporary rock scene with Anne Nightingale In the studio this week:
Duffo Lene Lovich with films, album tracks, interviews, news and reviews
Director JOHN BURROWES
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON
Music from this series: record (BEDP 001). cassette (HRMC 6000), from record shops