6.40 Stereochemistry: Configurations
7.5 Maths: Multiplying Matrices
7.30 Playing with Fire
Story: A Squash and a Squeeze words and music by JULIA DONALDSON Presenters
Chloe Ashcroft , Derek Griffiths
The Embassy World Professional Snooker Championship
Alex Higgins makes his first appearance in the tournament. With Cliff Thorburn, Terry Griffiths and Fred Davis, a quartet of World Champions, past and present, are in action today.
David Vine introduces highlights of this morning's play involving Griffiths and Davis, and live coverage of this afternoon's matches as the 'Hurricane' begins to blow.
4.50 Song of Sixpence
5.15 Mineral Processing
5.40 The Einstein Tower
6.5 ABC in Kansas City: 4
6.30 Isotopes in Geology
Clay Jones visits Borde Hill Garden, Sussex.
In the early 1900s thousands of plants from the Himalayas were raised in Britain, many at Borde Hill. John Humphris explains how they've continued to flourish in a soil that varies from heavy clay to light loam.
BBC Birmingham
including sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather
Frame of the Day World Champion
'CLIFF THORBURN and ALEX HIGGINS have been in action this afternoon.
DAVID VINE introduces highlights.
Timon of Athens
Malcolm Muggeridge offers his personal view of a play whose theme is the corrupting power of money.
Director DAVID WILSON Producer VICTOR poole
(Jonathan Miller 's production of Timon Will be shown next Thursday)
Despite Peking's ideological disapproval, Hong Kong's freewheeling, free market economy is thriving. But with most of the colony due to be returned to China in 1997, what will happen when the lease runs out? Will Peking want to take over, or will Hong Kong's economic value persuade the Communists to let the Tai-pans keep their special status? Keith Kyle reports for Newsweek on the pressures of a borrowed colony living on borrowed time.
Deputy editor PETER KENYATTA Editor PETER 1BBOTSON
between Arthur Marshall Kara Wilson , Tom Conti and Frank Muir , Joanna Lumley Christopher Cazenove
Referee Robert Robinson
Devised by MARK GOODSON and BILL TODMAN Directed by PAUL CIANI Producer ROGER ORDlSH
A play in three parts by WILLIAM TREVOR. Part 2 with Barbara Ferris
Gawn Grainger , Doreen Mantle David Neal and Ian Marter
As Elizabeth recovers in hospital after her operation, Henry is busy setting his house in order and looking for a new job. But neither can easily shake off the past.
Music arranged and played by PETER BITHEIL
Lighting HOWARD KING Sound JOHN DELANY
Designer MARTIN COLLINS Producer ANN KIRCH
Directed by BRIAN PARKER (Final part next Friday)
DAVID VINE reports with news of earlier matches played today.
The latest news and weather plus the evening's sports results.
Former World Champion John Spencer and Canadian Bill Werbeniuk complete their matches this evening. David Vine introduces highlights from Sheffield.
(Snooker coverage continues tomorrow)
Expanding Human starring Skip Homeier
Keith Andes , James Doohan
A strange series of break-ins and murders indicates that a university's ban on experimenting in mind-expanding drugs is being deliberately flouted.
Written by FRANCIS COCKRELL Directed by GERD OSWALD Produced by BEN BRADY
Created by LESLIE STEVENS
