9.25 Encounter: Austria: The School Year Begins
The School Year Begins... for some with a fashion show, for others with English lessons, a fencing class and a visit to the Landeszeughaus, Graz.
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9.42 Media Studies: Making the News
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10.15 Science Workshop: Fabrics: 1
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10.38 Investigating Science: Measurement: Made to Measure
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11.00 Thinkabout: Noodles in the Air
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11.15 Near and Far: Now and Then: Life in the 17th Century: The Gunpowder Plot
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11.35 Scene: Girl's Gang
Scene followed a group of five friends through a week. How does each of them fit into the group; and what do they get out of it?

12.05pm Science Topics: Catalysis
'No catalysts, then no chemistry, then no life.'
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12.25 Issues
What's really happening?
What's behind it? A current affairs series that takes an in-depth look into a major issue of the week.
Presented by Rob Curling

12.50 Micro File 'A': Power
Lesley Judd and Fred Harris introduce a compilation of items from the recent series Micro Live.
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In 1605 a group of Catholic gentlemen plotted to blow up King James I during the State Opening of Parliament. They failed, but their attempt has never been forgotten.

A See-Saw programme
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1.38 Music Time: The Sounds of Words
with Keith Bragg (flute), Colin Courtney (clarinet), John Harle (alto sax), Graham Ashton (trumpet), Mark Stephenson (cello) and Kevin Hathaway (percussion)
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2.00 News and Weather

Julian Rumball, a puppeteer, shows Jaye Griffiths and Tony Neilson different kinds of puppets and how they work.
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International Snooker
The Rothmans Grand Prix Two more fifth-round matches are on stage this afternoon, and a gaze into the crystal ball suggests that one of them should feature
SILVINO FRANCISCO against CLIFF THORBURN ; although messrs GARY WILKINSON and STEVE NEWBURY may have had something to say about that. In the other,
TONY KNOWLES will be meeting the winner of the fourth-round clash between RAY EDMONDS and EDDIE CHARLTON ; unless, that is, DAVID ROE has performed a giant-killing act on Knowles.
DAVID VINE introduces coverage from the Hexagon, Reading.
Commentators TED LOWE
JACK KARNEHM
CLIVE EVERTON
Summarisers JOHN SPENCER
JOHN VIRGO , EDDIE CHARLTON Racing from Newbury
2.30 The Hogg Robinson Stakes (Handicap 5f)
3.00 The Match Horris Hill Stakes (7f 60yds) one of the last chances to unearth a leading classic contender for 1988.
3.30 The EBF Theale Maiden Stakes (6f)
4.00 The Letcombe Handicap Stakes (lm)
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN
JIMMY LINDLEY and JOHN HANMER
TV presentation: Snooker
MIKE ADLEY. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
Executive producer IAN EDWARDS Racing producer BOB DUNCAN including at
2.50 News and Weather and 3.45 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

The second of two programmes
Presented by Mike Smith and Janet Ellis
As the doors of the London Motorshow open to the public, a chance to get some reactions to the new models from potential buyers and those who have simply come to look.
BBC Pebble Mill

from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton Anne Swithinbank and John Kelly Production assistant CHRISTINE HARDMAN
Producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill

Starring Lorne Greene as Commander Adama, Richard L Hatch as Captain Apollo, Dirk Benedict as Lt Starbuck, Herb Jefferson Jr as Lt Boomer

During a Cylon attack on the fleet, a vital agroship is destroyed. Commander Adama desperately needs new seed to provide food for the hundreds of colonists. Finding the seed is not too difficult, but paying for it leads Adama and the Battlestar crew into dangerous and unwelcome territory.

The Daihatsu
Pro-Celebrity Championship The Final from Littlecote, Berkshire. Over the past six weeks, eight experts and eight celebrities have competed in this new sport of floodlit clay-pigeon shooting.
At the firing point, 60 feet away, will be last week's winners and competing against them the successful first semi-finalists:
Bob Champion with farmer and 1984 European Champion, A. J. Smith
Commentator
DAVID VINE
Produced in association with TRANS WORLD INTERNATIONAL
Event organiser DAVID MAXWELL Lighting JOHN LIVINGSTONE
Videotape editor DAVID HAMBELTON Designer MICHAEL TREVOR Television presentation PETER HYLTON CLEAVER

Stumps
As the leaves fall in an autumn woodland, decay is in the air. Yet tree stumps invaded by mosses and fungi are in bloom - the weather ideal for spore-casting.
There's a late harvest for stump-dwelling animals.
Wood ants scale the pines in search of aphids and dormice stock up on the hazelnut crop, before the first frosts signal 'close of play'.
Written and narrated by Peter France
Photography ALAN HAYWARD Producer PAUL APPLEBY
Series producer DILYS BREESE BBC Bristol
(Final episode tomorrow 7.15pm)
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This week Ebony visits Leeds to report on the work of self-help groups in improving conditions for the black community there. Plus a portrait of Ghana's great leader, Yaa Asantewa , who fought against British colonisation of her country. And meet Rikki Patrick former singer with Sweet
Sensation, as he pursues his solo career on a whirlwind tour of Birmingham clubs.
Producer TERRENCE FRANCIS
Series producer VASTIANA BELFON Executive producer JOHN WILCOX

A duel of words and wit between Arthur Marshall Sian Phillips Nicky Henson and Frank Muir Claire Francis
Norman Painting
Referee Robert Robinson Devised by MARK GOODSON Directed by BRUCE MILLAR Producer PAUL CIANI

William Woollard presents the programme from
London's Motorfair 87. Sue
Baker drives the latest Lotus, and there's a report on the apparent revival in British car manufacturing - is it a genuine success story?
Chris Goffey reports on the British Truck Grand Prix and Tiff Needell monitors the progress of the 'Formula
First' entrants whose careers were featured in the last series.
The VW Beetle was the car of the decade for the 1940s -
Frank Page rediscovers the car in which he learnt to drive.
Producer JON BENTLEY
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill

starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones
The Show They Tried to Ban! ... is not on tonight. They succeeded. So there's this instead. With
Tracie Bennett , Jane Booker , Kim Clifford ,
Alexandra Dane , Eileen Davies , Nigel Harman , John Humphrys , Garfield Morgan ,
Derek Newark , Rebecca Stevens Written by CLIVE ANDERSON , JON CANTER
ROBIN DRISCOLL. RORY MCGRATH
ROGER PLANER. GRIFF RHYS JONES. JAMIE RIX. MEL SMITH , NICK WILTON Original music by PETER BREWIS Film cameraman REX MAIDMENT Studio sound LAURIE TAYLOR
Studio lighting GRAHAM RLMMINGTON Designers CHRIS RUGG. TIM GLEESON Production JOHN kilby. JAMIE RIX
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A Brass Tacks special Uncertain Legaey.
The whole world is radioactive, but is the' amount of radioactivity produced in our nuclear power stations a serious threat to our health? The British nuclear industry claims not.
Near Sellafield childhood cancers are ten times the national average, while in America over 1,600 legal suits have been filed against the owners of Three Mile Island nuclear plant on medical grounds. We know that radiation can cause cancer, but we cannot prove that nuclear stations are to blame. With fresh evidence from Japan about the long-term effects of radiation,
David Taylor examines the legacy we have inherited from 30 years of civil nuclear power. Film editor RICHARD FRETWELL Producer PETER DALE Editor COLIN CAMERON BBC North West

The Rothmans Grand Prix
Tonight's matches determine the last two quarter-final places. The protagonists should be STEVE DAVIS V
STEPHEN HENDRY ; and DENNIS TAYLOR v either cuff WILSON or JOHN VIRGO.
With DAVID VINE

Presented by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael
With international reports by David Sells and Charles Wheeler

DAVID VINE introduces further coverage.