9.20 Let's Go: Series 3: Let's Join a Crowd
Presented by Brian Rix
(R)

9.35 Descubra Espana: Pueblo y capital
Ambiente de pueblo; Vida de ciudad; La Semana Santa.
(R)

9.52 Mathscore Two: Numbers Growing
A poinsettia plant relates to a 'golden' rectangle, thanks to Fibonacci sequences.
(R)

10.15 Look and Read: The Boy from Space: 6: Where is Tom?
by Richard Carpenter
(R)

10.38 Geography Casebook: Britain: New Father Thames
London's desolate Docklands are now being redeveloped, but amid fierce local controversy.
(R)

11.0 Watch: Then and Now: Home
(For details see tomorrow at 2.0 pm)

11.17 Look, Look and Look Again: Natural Details
Colourful flowers and tiny butterflies make good subjects for detailed drawing and painting.
(R)

11.39 Science Topics: Electronics in Action
Even the most complicated silicon chips are made up of just a few simple circuits.
(R)

12.0 Une annee chez les Francais: Le medecin de Vichy
Patients come to the spa for mud, massage and water treatments.
(R)

12.30 pm Deutsch direkt!: 16: Regensburg
A series of 20 programmes for beginners in German
(R) (Shown again next Saturday)

12.55 Pages from Ceefax

1.20 Rendez-vous France: Sur mer et sur terre - Fecamp
En fete; En ville; Dans le temps
(R)

1.38 Let's See: Getting Around: 4: Finding the Way
Looking at maps and compass directions, ending with a rather special blend of orienteering and hide and seek!
Presented by Ann-Louise Ross and John Ramage
(R)

2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs are back in the market with Gary Wilmot.
There are new words - 'open', 'closed' - to learn and just like Humpty Dumpty, Dibs's Teddy can't be mended.
(R)

2.15 Near and Far: Farming the Hills
John and Mary Stuart run a small hill farm on the Braes of Glenlivet. What is it like to farm in this remote part of the Scottish Highlands on the limits of cultivation?
(R)

2.40 Exploring Science: Patterns of Growth
Patterns of growth are surprisingly similar from one organism to the next.
(R)

with subtitles, followed by Weather

with Floella Benjamin Robert Harley Joanna Monro
Andrew Secombe and Nick Wilton
Hi! Milton Keenze here from the planet Zymatron breaking in on RADIO TIMES!
All Zymatronians watch Fast Forward and think I look really hip - and you too! If you would like to know more about life on Zymatron, write to me, care of my friends on Fast Forward,
BBC Television Centre.
Wood Lane , London W12 8QT SYNW!
Designer PAUL HAINES Production
DAVID CRICHTON , TREVOR MCCALLUM Series producer ANN REAY

Jenny's finding it hard to accept that no one in Cardiff seems to speak Welsh. Tony can't believe they've never heard of West Ham. And at
Cardiff Arms Park - they pick up the ball and run with it! Thank goodness for the music, videos, film releases and brand new charts - at least there's something they can depend on. Directors CAROL CALDWELL JEM KIME. STEVE SMITH
Production PETER HAMILTON BBC Manchester

As this week's team of Earth explorers arrive on Arg, His
Highness the Rangdo has just finished setting a series of problems to thwart them in their quest for the Great
Crystal. Will they complete their task before being evaporated, or will they have to settle for a green cheese roll as compensation?
Travelling to Arg this week Joanna Monro
George Layton and Val Prince
Residents of Arg
Sarah Lam as Dorgan Christopher Leaver as Gandor Director OLIVER MACFARLANE Producers
CHRISTOPHER TANDY . IAN OLIVER (Postponed from 28 January)

TheOldStraightTrack Investigated by Robert Symes
The last of six original inquiries into the truth behind famous mysteries and legends.
Unexplained standing stones, crumbling castles and churches: ancient remains all over Britain can be linked by leys, invisible straight lines running across the landscape. Some believers say leys are Old Straight Tracks - trade routes used by our prehistoric ancestors; others claim that they mark the flow of mysterious earth forces.
And archaeologists say they do not exist at all.
Film cameraman PETER CHAPMAN Film editor MIKE APPELT Producer ROBIN BOOTLE

The last of a series in which
Eric Robson invites guests to discuss, with film and television clips, the heroes who have influenced their lives.
Tom Sawyer , Deputy General Secretary of NUPE, puts women high on his list of heroes - Ellen Wilkinson , mp Winnie Mandela ,
Katie Kollwitz the German painter, and his own mother. His male heroes include Manchester United footballer Duncan Edwards , Buddy Holly , William Morris and Bob Marley.
Director MARK SCRIMSHAW Producer ROGER BURGESS Executive producer JOHN MAPPLEBECK BBC North East

Presented by Chris Kelly
Michael Barry and Jill Goolden
The strange disappearance of the real tomato - an inquiry into why modern tomatoes seem to have so little flavour - including a visit to Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. The problems of successful wine buying - is it best to go to a supermarket, an off-licence or a specialist wine merchant? The team has been visiting all three, incognito, with some surprising results. And pancakes with a difference - it's Shrove
Tuesday today, so have a look at some crafty, exotic Pancake recipes.
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE Director JILL DAWSON

A serial in 12 parts based on the novels by ROBERT GRAVES
Written by JACK PULMAN
As Augustus learned of Livia's plot against Postumus, she took swift action which resulted in Tiberius becoming Emperor. The situation in Antioch now threatens Tiberius's Position.
Producer MARTIN LISEMORE
Directed by HERBERT WISE (R)

Drama series chronicling the reigns of Roman emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius. The situation in the east now threatens Tiberius's position as emperor. Show more

Marguerite Yourcenar
Novelist, poet, essayist and the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise, Marguerite Youreenar lives and writes on her island refuge off the coast of Maine. Her work ranges from a series of celebrated historical novels, including a classic study of the Emperor
Hadrian, to translations of blues and gospel songs.
Characteristically, Yourcenar is indifferent to public honour. The intellectual elite of the Academy, she says,
'decided to take a woman. It happened that woman was me.' In Arena this week, she talks about her life and work to writer and critic Peter Conrad.
Editor ALASTAIR MITCHELL Executive producers
ANTHONY WALL, NIGEL FINCH Producer DIANA LASHMORE

John Tusa Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary present the stories and interviews behind the main stories of the day. Ian Smith and Jenni Murray with a round-up of the news from home and abroad.
11.40 Weatherview

Priory School is a comprehensive school on the outskirts of Weston super-Mare. A look at a typical day in the life of the school, concentrating upon the way in which members of the staff see their role as managers.
(R)
(to 0.15)