6.5 17th-Century Court Patronage
6.30 Town and Country in Ancient Rome
6.55 Behind the Seat
7.20 Edinburgh Observed
7.45 Isotopes in Geology

9.38 Science Workshop Cleaning 'B'
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds Incey Wincey Spider
LESLEY WILTSHIRE and the children look for spiders and worms and watch some bees making honey.
10.15 Maths Counts 9: According to Plan
Twice as big, 50 times as big - it's a question of scale.
10.38 Home Economics Micronutrients
Micronutrients such as iron and Vitamin D are important parts of every diet. LESLEY JUDD explains their role and how to choose the right foods to get all we need.
Producer MICHAEL COYLE
11.0 Words and Pictures Trog and his Axe
VICKY IRELAND shows some early flint tools and tells how Trog learns to make an axe.
11.17 Music Arcade
Music and Dance: Part 1
11.39 General Studies
A Layperson's Guide to Lasers
12.5 pm Buongiorno Italia!
18: Com' era una volta? The Romans gave Orvieto its name, Urbs vetus, after they had conquered and destroyed it in 265 BC. Before then it had been a major Etruscan city.
12.30 Honourable Members
A series of five programmes examining the role of Members of Parliament. 3: Come to the Party
Life away from Westminster
12.55-1.9 Languages for Life Jeevanate Bhasha
A version in Punjabi of the film Languages for Life, taken from the earlier Multi-Cultural Education series.
Britain has many groups of people whose first language is not English, and this film sets out the case for more 'mother tongue' and 'community languages' teaching within the curriculum of British schools. It is shown with English subtitles. feUtrafiTH'Sd^'d
Producer JOHN TWITCHIN
1.21 Appuntamento in Italia I frutti della terra
La raccolta delle olive; Mezzadri e contadini; Buon appetito!
1.38 Let's See -The Sea 2: Life on the Rocks
2.1 Watch
Bricks and Mortar
Houses can be built from a variety of materials, but in this country bricks are the most common. James and Louise show how bricks are made and laid and look at brickwork patterns. Presenters LOUISE HALL-TAYLOR and JAMES EARL ADAIR
Series producer DAVID TAFT
2.18 English Resource Units 11-13 (Creative Writing) 4: Play on Words
Scripting from improvisation
Series producer JUDITH MILES
2.40 Zig Zag
How Old is It?
Everything ages. What are the signs?

Coverage of the fourth race from today's card at the National Hunt Festival.
4.5 Sun Alliance Steeplechase (3m) Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN and RICHARD PITMAN
Reporter JONATHAN POWELL
Producer RICHARD TILLING

The development of reading competence continues even when the basic skills have been acquired.
What sort of activities are useful for 7-to 9-year-olds? In this programme we join children from Saffron Green First School, Boreham Wood , Herts.
Producer DAVID SELIGMAN
A BBC/Open University production

with subtitles, followed by Weather

starring
Richard Egan
Dorothy Malone
In the style of High Noon and Shane this dramatic Western tells of a man who travels to another town where a gang of marauding trail herders terrorise the local people.
Screenplay by WINSTON MILLER Produced by SAM WIESENTHAL
Directed by CHARLES MARQUIS WARREN Films: page 14

Coot Club by ARTHUR RANSOME dramatised in four parts by MICHAEL ROBSON
Rosemary Leach as Mrs Barrable
Julian Fellowes as Jerry
1: 1932. A peaceful holiday on the Norfolk Broads becomes an adventure when Dick and Dot meet up with Mrs Barrable and Tom Dudgeon.
Music composed and conducted by PAUL LEWIS
Photography ALEC CURTIS Film editor TARIQ ANWAR
Script editor MERVYN HAISMAN Designer BRUCE MACADIE Producer JOE WATERS
Director ANDREW MORGAN
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where the public sets the agenda Come On You Spurs
FEYENOORD 0 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2 'Bomb thugs seized as Spurs fans run riot' (DAILY MIRROR, 3 November 1983) 'There are supporters, fans and a few hooligans; people outside football tend to group them all together.'
(CMDR JAMES DICKINSON, Y Division)
'You support Tottenham and you follow your team - no matter where they're playing, the Spurs fans will always turn up.' (STEVE, on train)
And turn up they do, thousands of them, STEVE and his mates, 87-year-old QUEENIE, vie and his 12-year-old son, GARY, MOLLY with her blue and white sausages; you'll find them every match day down White Hart Lane.
Made in participation with the SPURS SUPPORTERS CLUB Producer PAUL PIERROT
COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

A frank account in 11 parts of life on the ocean wave in one of Her Majesty's ships. 9: Homeward Bound
Ark is on her way back at last. No one was left behind. But it was a near thing, because two ratings had decided to return home while Ark was in America, to be with their pregnant wives. One did it the Navy way - officially. But the other simply deserted. He jumped ship, and tried to work his passage back. Now he awaits naval justice in the ship's cells.
As Ark steams into the Western Approaches, everyone is in a holiday mood- and as if to symbolise the joie de vivre, the Captain, Commander and Met Officer don pigtails and skirts, join hands and dance ...
Film recordist GRAHAM RODGER Producer JOHN PURDIE

The plants we grow in our gardens are some of the richest and most varied in the world, but very few of them are native to this country. So where do they come from? Who brought them? How have we changed them? Poppies
Poppies are full of contrasts - from the simple flower of our cornfields in summer to the flamboyant, sun-loving aristocrats of our June borders. Geoffrey Smith explores a flower which grows from California to the Himalayas and has had such a powerful influence on the history of the world.
Film editor PETER RINGSTED Producer BRIAN DAVIES
Director ERICA GRIFFITHS
Book (same title), 94.75 from booksellers

The third of the quarter-finals of BBC2's International Snooker competition is between the current Pot Black holder, Steve Davis , and Jimmy White. The winner meets John Spencer , three times winner of Pot Black, in the semi-finals. Introduced by ALAN WEEKS Commentator TED LOWE Referee JOHN WILLIAMS
Producer JOHN G. SMITH. BBC Pebble Mill

Dramatised in 13 parts by JULIAN BOND, starring
10: 1946. Lewis Eliot is reintroduced to Margaret Davidson , who is now married. He discovers that his feelings for her have not diminished in the years since their affair.
Music by KENYON EMRYS-ROBERTS Studio sound RICHARD CHUBB Studio lighting PETER CATLETT Designer OLIVER BAYLDON
Producer PHILIP HINCHCLIFFE Directed by JEREMY SUMMERS
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The Rt Hon
Roy Hattersley , mp for the Opposition
(Also on BBCl at 9.25 pm)

Highlights of today's action, which featured the Queen Mother
Champion Steeplechase

11.35 Geometric Topology: Orientability
How can you tell clockwise from anticlockwise? If you're standing on a special kind of surface, you can't!
12.0 'Miracles' at Lourdes
The Catholic shrine at Lourdes in southern France claims many miraculous healings. How does scientific evidence contribute to their affirmation?