How does a cattle vet spend his day?
An Open University production

5: Religion Shock

Jeremy James introduces up-to-the-minute news and match commentary from the 1984 World Chess
Championship in Moscow, between Anatoly Karpov and challenger Gary Kasparov. Commentary Bill Hartston Producer JILL DAWSON

The Orange World of Titan
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is one of the most remarkable bodies in the solar system. Patrick Moore talks about what is known about this extraordinary 'Earth in deep freeze'.
Producer PIETER MORPURGO

Richard Baker introduces two excerpts from this year's 90th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts

Ida Haendel plays Brahms's Violin Concerto in D, Op 77
London Symphony Orchestra, leader Michael Davis, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste

Brahms's only violin concerto was composed in 1878 for the great violinist Joseph Joachim. The soloist on 27 July first appeared at the Proms in 1937, and Sir Henry Wood became one of her staunchest admirers.

At 4.30* Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 5, in E minor, Op 64
BBC Symphony Orchestra led by Maurice Brett, conducted by Marek Janowski from an all-Russian concert given on 26 July.
Tchaikovsky himself conducted the first performance of his symphony in St Petersburg (Leningrad) in 1888 in the presence of Brahms.

A weekly discussion of issues and ideas.
Presented by Bryan Magee. Novelist Rachel Billington, physiologist Professor Colin Blakemore, historian Edward Norman, and social scientist Baroness Wootton of Abinger
Assistant producer IAN PAUL
Studio director DAVID MITCHELL
Producer CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM
BBC Bristol

Moira Stuart looks at the best news pictures of the week.
With subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Editor BOB MCDOUGALL

Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton present Britain's most popular financial and business programme with LUKE CASEY, NICK CLARKE and MARK ROGERSON reporting from home and abroad on your money and other people's.
Including this week
The Jackson Business: what has made Michael Jackson the biggest pop money-spinner of all time? Plus:
Money Maker on Children's Savings: your guide to the best buys for junior investors. And
Changing Gear? A report from the Motor Show on the prospects for the British car industry.
Director DON HARLEY
Deputy editor MICHAEL HOGAN Editor RICHARD TAIT

5: The Mekong
William Shawcross became the first western journalist since 1975 to cross the river border between Vietnam and Cambodia as he travelled up the Mekong, 'the river of solidarity' according to the Vietnamese.
But he found no easy passage. Vietnamese officials were suspicious of his motives, anxious for his safety. Nevertheless, despite difficulties, his journey began in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, and took him - by local ferry and military gunboat - to Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, and still recovering from Pol Pot 's brutal regime. He reached the magnificent ruins of Angkor Wat - now a war zone - by riverboat and helicopter. Journey's end by contrast, was in the tranquil Golden Triangle of Northern Thailand.
Written and presented by WILLIAM SHAWCROSS
Original music by TIM SOUSTER Photography ALAN STEVENS
Sound recordist GEOFF TOOKEY Film editor GRAHAM WALKER Director DAVID WALLACE
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6: Durham
With unashamed and unbridled joy
Alec Clifton-Taylor steps inside
Durham Cathedral, where the 12th-century vaults have remained unscathed for eight and a half centuries. With his absence of vertigo, he climbs to unlock the secrets of this
'finest Romanesque building in the world'. The houses in the Cathedral's shadow receive equal scrutiny. One imposing residence with its doorway
'not in the centre even of its own bay ... is really slightly ridiculous', but the public convenience next door was built by Salvin in 1841 and 'few loos, surely, can hold their heads so high!'
The Castle contains a Norman chapel, one of the few in the country to have survived intact. Durham - with its
Cathedral and Castle sited dramatically on a precipitous rock in the loop of the River
Wear - provides 'for anyone in love with architecture, one of life's most thrilling experiences'.
Music composed by JIM PARKER Photography MARTIN PATMORE Film editor JULIAN MILLER
Executive producer BRUCE NORMAN Producer JANE COLES
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Moira Stuart ; Weather

The television review presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses the screen version of the award-winning Radio 4 programme, Checkpoint (BBC1); River Journeys: The Mekong
(BBC2); and the sitcom Chance in a Million (C4) with broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby , writer
Geoffrey Moorhouse and actress Joanna Lumley. Plus a look at
'sudsology' - the academic study of television soap opera at Monmouth College, New Jersey.
Film director CHARLES MILLER Studio director KEVIN LOADER Assistant producer
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE Producer JOHN ARCHER

The Gateway Masters Bowls Tournament - The Final Commentators
DAVID VINE, DAVID RHYS JONES Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON

Next week The Boat chronicles the highlights and horrors of life in a German U-Boat. Tonight British submariners set the scene and describe their experiences.

continues a season of films of fantasy and prediction. Starring
Romy Schneider Harvey Keitel
In a frantic search for ratings and a gimmick, NTv, a television network, devises a macabre game of death. Viewers will share the day-to-day experiences of someone who is dying. Having selected a young girl,
Katherine, as their 'victim', the network implant a television camera in the head of Roddy, one of their employees. His job is to record Katherine's last days on earth. But they have reckoned without the rebellious nature of the two participants in the 'game' ... Director Tavernier's film is part science fiction, part drama and part horror story as well as being a fierce attack on the cynicism of the power of the media.
Screenplay by DAVID RAYFIELD and BERTRAND TA VERNIER based on the novel The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by DAVID COMPTON
Produced by JEAN-SERGE BRETON Directed by BERTRAND TAVERNIER
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