6.5 Maths: Flows and Exponential
6.30 History of Mathematics
6.55 Water for a City: Nottingham
7.20 Conflict 2: The Steel Strike
7.45 A Control System Design
Cricket: Third Test
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England u West Indies from Headingley
Further coverage of today's play on the first day of the Third Test.
International Show Jumping from Hickstead featuring The Everest Double Glazing Stakes This is the last
Nations Cup meeting before the Olympic Games and has attracted nine nations intent on using the superb arena for their final warm-up. Introduced by DAVID VINE
Commentators RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
STEPHEN HADLEY
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON
with subtitles, followed by Weather
Why Things Go Wrong
There are some days when mechanical things can just drive you crazy - like the car that refuses to start when you're already half-an-hour late or the phone that only gets wrong numbers or the key that sticks in the lock or the tap that won't stop dripping....
What can we do about them? Tim Hunkin , ex-engineer, inventor and Observer cartoonist, has his own ideas. In this programme, with the help of a mechanical barman, a flying sheep, some gunpowder and a DC10, Tim looks at machines and suggests, with his own animated cartoons, ways of making them more reliable. Series editor MICK RHODES Producer MICK JACKSON
Monkey Swallows the Universe
The travellers continue their hazardous journey to India. The noble Lord Golden Horn requests their company at a banquet where the dishes will include choice cuts from a boy priest - but is the hour of the Monkey an auspicious time?
Music by MICKY YOSHINO
Directed by DAISUKE YAMAZAKI
English adaptation by DAVID WEIR English version directed by MICHAEL BAKEWELL for World Wide Sound London
Produced by NTV and Kokusai Hoei
'Are you in the mood for looking at some pictures in a book?'
The book is The Butterfly Ball and Grasshoppers' Feast by Alan Aldridge and William Plomer, a children's story about woodland creatures going to a ball. The question is being asked of the Upham Road Dancers, a group of mentally handicapped young people preparing their own unique version of the story.
Follow their progress through work-shops and rehearsals as they develop their characters in a quite remarkable way and then... the day of the ball arrives. As night falls the procession crosses the stream to enter a fairy grotto where the ball begins...
Made in partnership with the Community Programme Unit.
* HELPLINES: page 71
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
starring Joanne Woodward, Estelle Parsons
The season of Paul Newman films continues with his remarkable directorial debut, a brilliant portrait of a small town in Connecticut. Joanne Woodward stars as Rachel Cameron, a schoolteacher who realises that she has reached the 'exact middle' of her life. She is unmarried, living with and looking after her widowed mother and can find no escape from an increasingly stultifying life. But Rachel begins to realise that change is possible. Life can mean more than a never-ending sameness. This moving film is a deeply felt portrait of one woman and her personification of the human spirit and its resilience.
Films: page 12
The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v West Indies
RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the day's play.
11.50 Handicapped in the Community
This programme is about personal relationships. Its theme is that handicapped people have the same basic feelings, desires and needs as everyone else.
12.15 Social Psychology: Analysing Interactions: 2
A young man meets an older woman at a party. Harmless enough, but for psychologists full of hidden meanings.
