6.30 Modern Art: Cezanne
6.55 Education: Let There be Music
(to 7.20)
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World Professional Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Fourth day
The concluding ten frames of the RAY REARDON match are played this morning, followed by the winner of the first Grand Prix tournament in the snooker calendar -
DENNIS TAYLOR (11), playing his first-round match. If the seedings are correct he will meet South African silvino FRANCISCO, the unexpected winner of the British Open.
Live coverage of this afternoon's debate in the House of Lords on the Local Government Bill, abolishing the GLC and six Metropolitan County Councils.
Baroness Birk speaks first for the Opposition and Lord Evans of Claughton opens for the Alliance.
The Government's case is put by Lord Elton and Viscount Whitelaw. Television presentation PETER KENYATTA
with subtitles; Weather
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
8: Raan Masaledar
In the final programme
Madhur Jaffrey shows how to make raan masaledar - a spectacular dish where a whole leg of lamb is smothered in a deliciously spicy sauce.
Assistant producer JENNY STEVENS Producer JENNY ROGERS Book, £4.25 paperback; £8.25 hardback from booksellers
with Geoffrey Smith Rhododendrons
You don't need a stately home to enjoy the magnificence of rhododendrons - there are plenty of small varieties specially bred for their elfin size.
Geoffrey Smith tackles the important first steps of choosing a healthy shrub and shows how to plant it to get the full effect of the flowers and foliage.
Film editor PETER RINGSTED
Producer ERICA GRIFFITHS Book, Geoffrey Smith 's World of Flowers: Part I £3.95: Part 2 E4.75, complete hardback edition £10.95, from booksellers
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World Professional Snooker Championship
Former World Champion JOHN SPENCER (13) commences his bid for the title this evening, and his opponent will probably be 20-year-old JOHN PARROT, twice winner of Junior Pot Black, who will certainly be formidable opposition. Also DENNIS TAYLOR plays the concluding ten frames of his first-round match.
DAVID VINE introduces highlights of this afternoon's and evening's frames. Commentators
TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM
CLIVE EVERTON
The Goddess of the Earth
At this moment the plants in your garden are producing a gas which could set the planet on fire. Luckily, it won't happen - partly because of ancient bacteria in our guts! This idea forms part of a startlingly controversial theory put forward by Dr James Lovelock to explain how life on Earth has survived for three-and-a-half billion years. He argues that life itself actively manipulates the planet, ensuring that the oceans don't boil or freeze and that the atmosphere remains breathable. His name for this self-regulating system is
Gaia - the ancient Greeks' goddess of the Earth.
Narrator Paul Vaughan Film editor NICK RAYNER
Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY Written and produced by JOHN GROOM
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World Professional Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre DAVID VINE introduces further coverage of the matches involving
JOHN SPENCER and DENNIS TAYLOR
A film about Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison is the son of a baker, and his poetry relishes, and mourns for the class he comes from. His subjects are sex, love, politics, class warfare, death, all the rituals and performances of our lives. His work is direct, witty, often angry, expressed in the language and idioms of his northern roots.
His recent adaptation of the English Mystery plays with the National Theatre
Company has been hailed as 'the most moving, solemn and joyful theatrical event in London'. His latest cycle of poems is on an intensely private theme, meditations on his own family life and relationships. Tonight, Arena investigates a unique voice in contemporary literature. Film cameramen
COLIN WALDECK. JOHN GOODYER Film editor PETER HARRIS Producer ALAN YENTOB Director NIGEL WILLIAMS
John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick
Jenni Murray and Ian Smith Producers HOWARD ANDERSON
DAVE STANFORD, JANE DRABBLE Directors
JOHN WILKINSON , CHRIS FOX Assignment editors
NICK GUTHRIE , TOM ROBERTS Deputy editor JOHN MAHONEY Editor DAVID DICKINSON
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World Professional Snooker Championship
Further coverage including the result of the DENNIS TAYLOR match.
