The classic serial starring Buster Crabbe
5: Flash Gordon finds a friend in Prince Barin, the usurped ruler of Mongo. (R)

Another adventure for
Leslie Charteris 's
Robin Hood of crime.
Starring
Hugh Sinclair
Trying to get away from it all, the Saint stumbles across a gaggle of spies, thugs, cutthroats and bumbling policemen fighting for the possession of a valuable music box.
Director Leslie Fenton
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Beginning a short season celebrating the centenary of the film-maker's birth.
Starring Anna Neagle, Ray Milland

When working girl Irene O'Dare is mistaken for an Irish aristocrat she finds that life as the toast of New York society is not without its complications.
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A series of five lectures with by physicist and musician Professor Charles Taylor.
1: Whenever the pressure of the air is changed rapidly, by beating a drum or rattling a stick in a tin can, the ear-brain system detects the pressure changes as sound. The sound travels from the source to the listener as sound waves. But what are they really like?
Producer William Woollard An InCA production (R)

There's trouble at the royal palace and Green Claws is asked to help out.
With Nick Mercer ' and Stella Goodier.
Claws family stories Sonya Dann Illustrations Jane Gedye Script Ursula Jones
Director Adrian Mills
Producer Christine Hewitt (R)

Eight programmes about renovating old furniture at home.
4: Chairs are possibly the items of furniture most often in need of renovation. What you do to them depends on the type - frame chair, balloon back, bentwood or stick chair. Presented by David Day and Albert Jackson. Film editor Al Cell
Producer Ron Bloomfield (R)
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Weather followed by Songs of Praise For Palm Sunday, from Yeovil's parish church, with Ian Gall.
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The story of Desmond Farraday , adventurer and one-time poacher. After rescuing a female cheetah in 1960, he set up a cheetah sanctuary at his home in the Transvaal where 104 cheetahs were born in ten years.
Director Alain Degre
A Gamma TV production

Last in the series.
Neil Mullarkey looks ahead to a prestigious new series, The Ten Commandments, coming soon to BBC2. Producer Jeanine Josman

Weather followed by The Last Place on Earth
Second of four programmes. In the remote village of Konchet in the kingdom of Zanskar, families live out their lives in the same way as their Tibetan ancestors did more than a thousand years ago. The tales told by Tsultrim's grandmother span five generations. When Tsultrim's baby falls ill, the local doctor holds his clinic in the house.
Presenter: Michael Peissel. Film editor David Farlie
Producer Peter Montagnon (R)

If you want to take up one of the country's most popular pastimes, or just to improve your own game, then this is the series for you.

Dennis Taylor introduces his pupils to the secrets of successful potting. Plus, a look at the technique and cue delivery of some of the professional stars.
A GM production for BBCtv
(Tomorrow: controlling the cue ball)

Comedian and actor
John Sessions is invited by Emma Freud to plunder the BBC archives.
Producer/Director Phil Chilvers

Starring
Gregory Peck
Tamara Toumanova
Peck made his film debut in this Second World War story in which Nina, a Russian dancer stranded behind Nazi lines, is rescued by a band of Russian freedom fighters.
Director Jacques Tourneur
Writer/Producer Casey Robinson
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Music from Ireland
Final programme in the series, with concert footage, interviews and videos of the 4 of Us, Cactus World News, An Emotional Fish, the Black Velvet Band and Something Happens. Producer Bill Hughes
A Radius TV production for BBCtv
6.55pm
Computer Dreams
A journey into the world of computer animation.
The second of two programmes explores the fascinating possibilities opened up by computer animation in areas as different as science and advertising.
Producer/Director Geoffrey de Valois
A Digital Vision Entertainment production for BBCtv

A series of six programmes. Italian cookery expert and author Valentina Harris goes in search of the dishes which bring back memories of her childhood in Tuscany and Rome, such as the stews and iced puddings of Forte dei Marmi and the bean stews and wood-smoked meat and game of inland Tuscany. In her Tuscan home, Valentina demonstrates an old favourite of 'slaughterhouse' cuisine - oxtail with celery. The Lazio region provides the food: potato gnocchi with a luscious tomato sauce and chicken with rosemary and garlic.
Production assistant Diane Hadley Producer Clare Brigstocke
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First in a series of films exploring the new realities of faith in eastern Europe. The world changed for Romanian priest
Fr Constantin Bogdan on 17 June 1987, when his 17th-Century church in Bucharest was torn down on orders from the State.
Fortunately, its medieval icons were spirited away.
This month, as the country celebrates its first free
Easter, Fr Bogdan and Abbot Panaite from
Budapest look forward to a future of rebuilding and reconciliation.
Series producer Peter Firstbrook Producer Christian Thau
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This Thursday, Nasa expects to launch the Hubble space telescope, which promises the greatest advances in astronomy since Galileo. It will show ten times more details than is possible from the ground and see objects 30 times fainter or five times farther away than ever before. It will search for planets outside our solar system, and will tell us much more about the Universe. With long delays and huge cost-overruns, it is now approaching its point of greatest risk. If anything goes wrong on the launch, there is no back-up.

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Starring Lindsay Wagner Death Row, San Quentin
1955: convicted murderess
Barbara 'Bloody Babs' Graham awaits her execution. Susan Hayward won an Oscar for her gutsy portrayal of this prostitute-crook in the original 1958 film.
Director David Lowell Rich
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With Peter Snow.
Reporters: David Coss , Olenka Frenkiel ,
Peter Kellner , Wesley Kerr , Peter Marshall , Julian O'Halloran , David Sells , Francine Stock , Janet Trewin and Charles Wheeler.

With Sarah Dunant. Tracey MacLeod and Kirsty Wark. Producer Janey Walker Editor Kevin Loader

Arts Foundation Course
Donald Burrows unravels the story behind Handel's Messiah, with Patrizia Kwella , soprano, and Angela East , cello. Producer Tony Coe