Science: Fires of Life

Written and presented by Ian Grimble. Fyvie Castle
This impressive addition to the properties of the National Trust of Scotland was owned by five families over as many centuries. Alexander Forbes -Leith brought the property in 1888, and assembled the finest collection of Raeburn Portraits in the land.

The demand for minerals is Producing weird and wonderful ways of discovering them, from helicopters equipped to 'sniff out a find, to sophisticated computer searches. Producer JOHN SIMMONS A BBC/OPEN UNIVERSITY Production (R)

118th Open Championship from Royal Troon Golf Club. The Ayrshire coast is rich in golfing history, although Royal Troon is a comparative newcomer to the Open list.
However, the golf is exacting and the winner will be a true champion.

A See-Saw programme. (R)

118th Open Championship from Royal Troon Golf Club. The closing stages of the second day's play always ensure nail-biting stuff. Only the top 70, and ties from the 1513 players who start the championship, go through to the last two rounds. 'If onlys' and 'might-have-beens' are intermingled with sighs of relief and jubilation. Introduced by Harry Carpenter.

Weather followed by Weekend Outlook

118th Open Championship Further coverage from Royal Troon Golf Club.
Racing from Ascot
On the eve of a thrilling 'King George', there's four races, all with five-figure prize money.
2.30 Havelet Stakes (H'cap. 6f)
3.00 Virginia Water Maiden Stakes (2-y-o. 6f)
3.30 Brown Jack Stakes (H'cap. 2m)
4.05 Sandwich Maiden Stakes (2-y-o. 7f)
Introduced by Julian Wilson Commentator PETER O'SULLEVAN
, JIMMY LINDLEY and JOHN HANMER
Producer (racing) WENDY SHEPPARD including at
3.00pm News and Weather

The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts return tonight live in stereo from the Royal Albert Hall. The opening concert features a popular Beethoven Symphony and a powerful Stravinsky work written in collaboration with Jean Cocteau. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra, led by Bela Dekany, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Part 1
Beethoven Symphony No 4 in B flat major

8.05* Interval feature: Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Jean Cocteau, one of the most eclectic and colourful of French artists, was born 100 years ago this month. Roger Nichols looks at his often bizarre relationship with his contemporaries and traces his collaboration with Stravinsky.

8.25* Part 2
Stravinsky Oedipus Rex
(sung in Latin with English subtitles)
BBC Singers (men's voices)
Chorus master Malcolm Hicks
Introduced by Richard Baker

(Simultaneous Broadcast with Radio 3)
(Feature: page 12)

Norman Lewis , author of The Honoured Society, a classic study of the Sicilian Mafia, introduces filmed excerpts from the 600-day trial which became the greatest exposure of organised crime.
In Palermo, between February 1986 and December 1987, over 200 defendants faced testimony from a collection of supergrasses who finally turned against the Mafia and breached omerta, the code of silence. During the court hearings, as life increasingly imitated art (one boss says of a witness '... if he hadn't seen The Godfather he would not have slandered us ...') the secrets of the Mafia emerge: the structure of the Cosa Nostra, its relationship to the US Mafia, the control of the drug trade and the role of the capi - those who have the power of life and death. The story continues.
Music by ENNIO MORRICONE
Directed by PINO PASSALACQUA A RAI CHANNEL 3 production Television presentation by LINDSAY DAVIES
(Francis Coppola 's 'The Godfather Saga ' begins next Friday)
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with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with international reports by DAVID SELLS,
CHARLES WHEELER , GAVIN ESLER and JULIAN O'HALLORAN
Deputy editor NIGEL CHAPMAN Editor JOHN MORRISON

The Jack Benny Show starring the inimitable Jack Benny with very special guests
Mr and Mrs James Stewart. The Income Tax Show
When Jack has to explain how he managed to spend only three dollars on entertainment in the last fiscal year,
Mr and Mrs James Stewart are happy to verify the facts. Directed and produced by NORMAN ABBOTT
11.45pm
Jackie Gleason In
The Honeymooners starring Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden
Art Carney as Ed Norton Audrey Meadows as Alice Joyce Randolph as Trixie. A Matter of Life and Death
Learning that he has only six months to live, Ralph attempts to ensure that Alice is well looked after, by selling his tragic story to a newspaper. Will Kramden's plight touch the hearts of a nation or should he have read that medical report a little more closely? Written by MARVIN MARX and WALTER STONE Directed by FRANK SATENSTEIN

118th Open Championship from Royal Troon Golf Club. Action from the second round, and full details of the players who go into the third round tomorrow. Introduced by Harry Carpenter.
Commentators PETER ALLIS
BRUCE CRITCHLEY , CLIVE CLARK
ALEX HAY , MARK MCCORMACK
MIKE HOUSTON Producers
ALASTAIR SCOTT and JIM RESIDE Executive producer JOHN SHREWSBURY