7.40 My Door is Always Open

8.5 Maths - Polynomial Approximations

8.30 Chewing It Over

8.55 The Wild Duck

The John Player League featuring
Kent v Derbyshire
Kent should be at full strength today. With Alan Knott , Derek Underwood , Bob Woolmer and Asif Iqbal available, captain Alan Ealham leads a formidable team indeed.
TONY LEWIS introduces the programme, which includes news of today's other fixtures.
ESSEX V NOTTINGHAMSHIRE HAMPSHIRE V YORKSHIRE
LEICESTERSHIRE V LANCASHIRE
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE t! WORCESTERSHIRE SURREY t' GLOUCESTERSHIRE SUSSEX V SOMERSET
WARWICKSHIRE V MIDDLESEX
Commentators at Canterbury JOHN ARLOTT and JIM LAKER
Television presentation
BOB DUNCAN and CAMPBELL FERGUSON Cricket scores on Ceejax

A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world; the interesting, the picturesque, the important and the dramatic, plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear. with Jan Leeming
Editor RICHARD GAMBLE

The last of four programmes Nodrup's Monastery
Presented by Michel Peissel
Karsha, in the Kingdom of Zanskar, is one of the last of the great Tibetan monasteries. The monks live by rules laid down by their founder, the Buddha, more than 2,500 years ago. Like medieval Europe, nearly a quarter of Zanskar's population are monks. They are the second sons of an agricultural community that is rich enough to keep them in the monasteries, but too poor to allow them to stay at home, marry, and multiply. The monasteries may seem an economic luxury, but this is Zanskar's equivalent of Cape Canaveral, and the monks are engaged in the psychic equivalent of a moonshot.
Photography DAVID SOUTH
Sound recordist DAVE BRINICOMBE Film editor PETER SYMES
Producer PETER MONTAGNON

Weather

Gala Evening at the Kirov Ballet Raymonda
BBC2's Dance Month 1980, ends with a performance by one of the greatest Russian companies, the Kirov from Leningrad.
Raymonda, choreographed by MARIUS PETIPA to music by ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV , is a magnificent example of the classical ballet of the 19th century, danced tonight in the beautiful theatre that saw its first performance in 1898. Set in medieval Provence it tells the story of the wooing of Raymonda by the Crusader knight, Jean de Brienne , and his evil rival the Saracen Abderahman.
Conductor VIKTOR SHIROKOV Design SULIKO VIRSALADZE Production revived by KONSTANTIN SERGEYEV
Television director YURI BOGATIREV a SOVIET TELEVISION production
During the Interval:
John Drummond talks to
Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet.

A special edition on China
' The people of China are working with one heart and one voice under the leadership of Chairman Hua to achieve the four modernisations of our country.'
(A CHINESE FACTORY WORKER)
By the year 2,000, Chinese leaders intend that agriculture, industry, science and defence will be modernised so that China is an industrial nation. The average income per head will increase from
150 dollars a year to 1,000 dollars in 20 years. But what problems will such rapid modernisation bring? How much will they have to compromise Chinese communism and accept capitalist ways?
Paul Barry has visited Chinese factories and talked with factory managers and workers, and with Vice-Premier Kang Shi'en to assess China's new Great Leap Forward.
Producers PETER BATE and BRUCE TODD
Editor PAUL ELLIS

starring
Faye Dunaway , Barry Primus
In an attempt to recover from a mental breakdown, Lou Sand retires to a secluded beach house. Her companion is a friend who intends to make a film about her life. Lou tells of her love affairs and faded romances. And of her formerly successful career as a fashion model. Gradually, fact and fantasy mix and Aaron, her would-be biographer, realises that it is too late to unravel the fragmented life of the glamorous and seriously disturbed woman.
Screenplay by ADRIAN JOYCE , based on a story by JERRY SCHARTZBERG , ADRIAN JOYCE Produced by JOHN FOREMAN
Directed by JERRY SCHARTZBERG. Films: p (First showing on British television)