6.30 Minerals Under the Microscope

6.55 England is the Place for Me

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World Professional Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Twelfth day
The first quarter-final is played to a finish this morning and if results earlier this season are anything to go by, World
Champion STEVE DAVIS (1) is not a certainty to progress through to the semi-finals as ALEX 'HURRICANE' HIGGINS (9) is beginning to show the form that won him the world crown in 1982. Ex-World Champion TERRY GRIFFITHS (8) could also be an obstacle as he tries to recapture the form which gave him the title in 1979. Continuing on the other table is almost certainly going to be JIMMY
WHITE (7) and TONY KNOWLES (2), in their best-of-25-frames quarter-final.
Introduced by DAVID ICKE

Live coverage of this afternoon's debate in the House of Lords on Soviet intervention in the affairs of other countries, and the damage this does to the chances of better relations between East and West. The debate is opened by former Prime Minister,
Lord Home. Other speakers include
Lord Chappie Lord Cledwyn the Labour leader in the Lords, and Baroness Young.
Television presentation
PETER KENYATTA , NEIL ECCLES

with subtitles; Weather

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World Professional Snooker Championship
Two of the semi-finalists are already known. Will STEVE davis be there to try to make it a hat-trick of World Championship wins? In the other quarter-final match to be completed this afternoon it looks like another semi-final for CUFF THORBURN (3). DAVID VINE introduces highlights of the quarter-final matches played today.

Paul King , rising star and hit-maker, is currently on a sell-out British tour. But what does he listen to before the crowds listen to him?
Steve Blacknell meets him backstage to find out. Producer JON PLOWMAN

Mark Ellen and Andy Kershaw introduce live music from Go West. In New York, David Hepworth meets U2 on their current American tour and visits the Hammersmith Odeon during a recent Frankie Goes to Hollywood concert for a lighthearted look at the T-shirt behind the record behind the band.
Paul Weller and Green of Scritti Politti call in with their respective new videos. Hindsight features Ry Cooder from 1973. Richard Skinner surveys today's new charts, and Video Vote calls are taken on [number removed].
Producers JOHN BURROWES and TREVOR DANN
Director DAVID G. CROFT Editor MICHAEL APPLETON

William Woollard talks to Formula Three Champion, Johnny Dumfries at the launch of a tyre, claimed to be the 'fastest high performance tyre in the world', and asks if this new tyre technology means safer driving.
Frank Page road tests the 126 mph MG Montego Turbo, while Sue Baker drives the 'Blackpool Flyer' - the TVR 390SE and tunes in to the latest in in-car entertainment.
Producers PHILIP FRANKLIN and BRIAN STRACHAN
Executive producer DENNIS ADAMS

This week Jonathan King is in the middle of the desert, taking another look at the luxury Indian reservation of Palm Springs. He meets a flamboyant dentist, who fills teeth wearing a tuxedo; discovers outside air-conditioning and visits California's plushest hotel. There is an interview with rock star Meatloaf and a look at the 'cosmetics' of showbusiness as Jonathan meets a PR man who moulds stars' images and a plastic surgeon who moulds their faces ... and other parts too!
Compiled and researched by COLIN MARCHANT
Executive producer MICHAEL HURLL Producer GORDON ELSBURY

continues the season of films by one of Hollywood's greatest directors starring
Frederic Forrest Teri Garr
Nastassia Kinski
Coppola's romantic fantasy is full of video technology and movie magic. The setting is Las Vegas on the eve of the Fourth of July celebrations.
A young couple row on the fifth anniversary of their first meeting and declare that they are going their own ways. Each becomes involved in a romantic adventure but true love triumph's ... This enchanting film has a sound-track sung by Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle which counterpoints the action.
Screenplay by ARMYAN BERNSTEIN and FRANCIS COPPOLA Music by TOM WAITS
Produced by GRAY FREDERICKSON and FRED ROOS
Directed by FRANCIS COPPOLA
(First showing on British television) 0 IN THE PICTURE: page 23

Newsnight tonight includes an extended report on the debate in the House of Lords initiated by Lord Home on Soviet foreign policy and penetration in the Third World.

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World Professional Snooker Championship from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Further coverage and results of the quarter-final matches played this evening.
Introduced by DAVID VINE

12.10 Juggling with Physics
Roll up, roll up! See death-defying artistes demonstrate the incredible and spectacular laws of physics before your very eyes.

12.35 Religion: The Roaring Silence
For the Buddhist monk the act of praying, although constant, is not the heart of the spiritual life.
Meditation - 'the roaring silence' - is the route to nirvana.

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