6.40 The Madonna di San Biagio
(to 7.05)
7.30 Avoiding a Catastrophe
6.40 The Madonna di San Biagio.
7.30 Avoiding a Catastrophe.
Story: The Garden from Frog and Toad, written and illustrated by ARNOLD LOBEL Presenters
Sheelagh Gilbey , Johnny Ball
Pianist JONATHAN COHEN
Photographs by BARRY BOXALL Designer BOB STEER
Scripts devised by ANNE DENEHY Directed by CHRISTINE HEWITT Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
4.50 Fractional Distillation
5.15 Earth Science Topics
5.40 Statistics - Using Computers
6.5 The Sense Organs
6.30 Microeconomics
Geoffrey Smith and Clay Jones with Arthur Billitt at Clack's Farm. Geoffrey and Arthur plant-up window boxes and hanging baskets. Clay describes how he manages his home-made propagator and DAVE CHAPPELL prepares seed potatoes, carrots and beetroot.
Produced by jobn KENYON BBC Birmingham
Gardening hints on Ceefax page 268
including sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
In this second leg of his coast-to-coast journey across America, Donny MacLeod visits a Country and Western jamboree at Nashville, Tennessee, better known as Music City, USA, the home of the rhinestone cowboys.
Produced and directed by PETER HERCOMBE Editor JIM DUMIGHAN. BBC Birmingham
' Is this a legacy to leave for our children and our children's children? '
Ian Crawford , farmer
Sue Grimes , policewoman
David Harwood , unemployed fitter Krysia Kobziak , journalist Dave Silver , disc jockey want to know just how safe our nuclear power stations really are. They put the questions to Dr Walter Marshall of the Atomic Energy Authority
Research CAROLE CALDWELL Producer LYN WEBSTER BBC Manchester
Ten films in which Magnus Magnusson explores the Viking world.
5: England at Bay
' All they wanted was a nice warm welcome and a few beers in Weymouth, but they were insulted, so fists began to fly.'
That is MAGNUS MAGNUSSON 'S slightly tongue-in-cheek interpretation of events on the Dorset coast around AD 790, when England's first recorded Viking visitors arrived unannounced and slew the king's representative for daring to ask them their business!
Tonight's episode of Vikings! looks at the Viking kingdom of York and at the beleaguered kingdom of Wessex where it was left to a young Saxon king to stem the onslaught of the ' Viking host'-Alfred the Great. with Dennis Edwards
Daniel Massey , Jeremy Kemp
Music by JACK POINT
Series adviser PROFESSOR p. h. SAWYER Research LIZ WRIGHT
Film editor MALCOLM DANIEL Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Series producer DAVID COLLISON
BBC2 Snooker Championship
The ' best of three frames ' Final for the 1980 Pot Black Trophy and first prize of E2,000. Featuring
Ray Reardon (WALES), the 1979 and defending Pot Black Champion v Eddie Charlton (AUSTRALIA), twice Pot Black Champion
Presenting the awards, including the Highest Break Prize, the Joe Davis Trophy and the Pot Black ' Personality ' Award:
Cliff Morgan , June Davis
Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Commentator TED LOWE Referee SYDNEY LEE
Designer GAVIN DAVIES Director ROY NORTON
Producer REG PERRIN. BBC Birmingham
(Coverage of The Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship begins on Monday)
by JAMES ROBSON
' No permissive society the Iron Age ... no messing about in those days.' A gruesome discovery on an archaeological excavation has more than historical interest when the love of a young man for an older woman gets out of hand.
Lighting GORDON WHITE. Sound IAN LEIPER Designer ROB HINDS Producer DAVID ROSE
Director CAROL WILKS. BBC Birmingham
including news summary, weather forecast and sports results
The classic sci-fi series exploring the boundaries of man's inner self when faced with alien forces in time and space.
A time warp lands a future Earth soldier, programmed exclusively to destroy his enemies, back to the present day. But who on 20th-century Earth could possibly be his enemy?
JULIAN GLOVER reads The Percipient by MARGARET WILLY
