9.20 Gravity and the Stars
9.45 Earth's Physical Resources: Introduction
10.35 Prospect: For Students and Tutors of AlOl
11.0 Animal Physiology: Yields and Rates
11.25 The Value of an OU Degree
11.40 State and Society in 1984 12.40 Dairy Cattle: Who's Running Your Herd?

starring
Bette Davis
Miriam Hopkins Bette Davis is a 'serious' novelist respected by the literary establishment and Miriam Hopkins is her friend from childhood who becomes a successful pulp novelist. The two women's rivalry is played out over the years to a conclusion which surprises them both.
Screenplay by JOHN VAN DRUTEN and LENORE COFFEE from the play by JOHN VAN DRUTEN Produced by HENRY BLANKE
Directed by VINCENT SHERMAN and at 3.30
The Pleasure of His
Company starring
Fred Astaire
Debbie Reynolds Lilli Palmer Pogo Poole , a rich ageing playboy, arrives unexpectedly in San
Francisco for his daughter's wedding. His ex-wife and her new husband are less than pleased when he sweeps his daughter,
Jessica, off her feet with exciting talk of the European high-life - threatening her marriage to the local rancher.
Screenplay by SAMUEL TAYLOR Produced by WILLIAM PERLBERG Directed by GEORGE SEATON
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The Benson and Hedges Masters
The First Semi-final
DAVID ICKE introduces further coverage of this afternoon's best-of-11-frames match from the Wembley Conference Centre.

French for beginners in the 14th of 15 programmes.
The way things used to be: Carolle Rousseau and Patrick Simpson-Jones look at life in Pezenas before the war.

with Jan Leeming Weather

BBC2 and Radio 3 combine for a live relay from the Royal Festival Hall, London Tonight the Chicago Symphony Orchestra reaches the climax of a major European tour under its musical director Sir Georg Solti.
Part 1: John Corigliano
Tournaments Overture (first UK performance) Mozart
Symphony No 39 in E flat (K543)
A Simultaneous Broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo Radio 3 may wish to turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away.
Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.

During the interval
Sir Georg talks about his life and the music in this evening's concert.

Part 2
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4 in F minor Introduced by Brian Kay Produced by JOHN VERNON Director HUMPHREY BURTON
A Simultaneous Broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo Radio 3 may wish to turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away.
Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.

starring
Robert Shaw
Malcolm McDowell In a vast unnamed landscape two men are on the run, their wrists tied.
A helicopter and its occupants force the men into a lethal cat-and-mouse game. Joseph Losey who directed the film from the screenplay by one of his stars, has evoked a nightmare world of fear and pursuit, and portrays - in characteristic fashion - a fascinating, shifting relationship between his highly contrasted, yet mutually dependent central characters.
Screenplay by ROBERT SHAW Produced by JOHN KOHN Directed by JOSEPH LOSEY
(First showing on British television)
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from Santa Caterina, Italy The Ladies Downhill
Swiss success today looks a formality - Olympic gold and bronze medallists MICHELA FIGINI and MARIA WALLISER have re-discovered their
Sarajevo form this season while another Swiss miss, BRIGITTE OERTLI could join them on the rostrum, and only Austria's ELISABETH KIRCHLER seems likely to spoil the party. DAVID VINE reports from the Valtellina Valley of the Italian Alps. Television presentation by the Italian TV Service Producer JIM RESIDE