7.40 Pearl Harbour

8.5 Spreading Oceans

8.30 M101/10 Area Games

8.55 Control: A School Experiment

9.20 Optical Microscopy

9.45 Maths

10.10 Partial Differential Equations

10.35 Microeconomics

11.0 Slatonbury

11.25 OUSA National Conference

11.50 The Madonna di San Biagio

12.15 What is Cognitive Development?

12.40 Sulphuric Acid

1.5 The DES

(Shown last Sunday)

The John Player Cup Final
Semi-final winners, Wasps or Leicester and Gosforth or Moseley meet in the final of England's premier club competition.
Commentator NIGEL STARMER-SMITH
Series producer BILL TAYLOR

The Embassy World Professional SnooUer
' Championship
After 150 hours of snooker, only four players now remain from the 16 who set out last Monday. DAVID VINE introduces the triumphs and disasters of the week's play.
Followed by Rugby League results

News of the week. plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear. With Richard Baker
EditorRICHARD GAMBLE

As part of Opera Month's Wagner Weekend, BBC2 joins forces with Radio 3 for a stereo relay of Richard Wagner's great comic opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg from the stage of the Swedish Royal Opera House, Stockholm, in a new production by Gotz Friedrich.

Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera, Stockholm conducted by Berislav Klobucar
Designer Gunter Schneider-Siemssen
Costumes Aliute Meczies
Introduced by Humphrey Burton

Act 1. St Catherine's Church, Nuremberg, in the middle of the 16th century - Midsummer's Eve.

(Sung in German with English sub-titles)
(For the best effect viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative)

(Act 2 at 7.35 pm; Act 3 at 9.5 pm)

Alan Bluth writes on page 39

Weather

Act 2. The street in front of Sachs's and Pogner's houses - later that same day.

Robert McKenzie discusses the style of the Election Campaign with Andrew Alexander of the Daily Mail, David Wood of The Times and Ian Aitken of The Guardian.

Act 3. Scene 1: Sachs's workshop - the following morning.
Scene 2: A meadow on the banks of the Pegnitz. near Nuremberg-later that day.
For details see page 37

The Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
DAVID vine introduces highlights of the semi-finals which begin today.