6.20 Cell Biology: Shaping Up
What process ensures that eggs, spores or seeds develop into their adult form?

6.45 Maths: Equivalence Relations

7.10 Science and Nuclear Waste
How nuclear waste is handled, from its source in a nuclear reactor to its final disposal underground

7.35 Geology: Form and Function of Fossils
Working out how creatures now extinct swam millions of years ago

With Signing. Subtitled ...................5202329

Animation. Pinocchio tries to free Gepetto from Sneeroff, who has locked him up in a wagon on a ship ready to set sail.

Babar takes the family to dinner with Rataxes to celebrate the signing of the peace treaty between them. (Rpt)

Vernon Egerton , Servant of the Lord Devoting his life to preaching,
Vernon Egerton has brought up his family on 40 rented acres of the Staffordshire
Pennines without ever earningenough to pay income tax.

The second of three programmes about some of the world's great mysteries.

Did the obscure verses of Nostradamus in the 16th century really prophesy later upheavals such as the death of President Kennedy and the rise of Hitler? Henry Lincoln examines the real figure behind the myths.
(Final mystery tomorrow at 9.30am)

(Stereo)

Live coverage of this morning's play from the British Masters at the Dukes course, Woburn, where last year's champion Peter Bakerdefends his title against a field of top class players, including US
Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal and US Open champion Ernie Els.
Commentary by Peter Alliss , Clive Clark , Alex Hay and Mike Hughesdon. Introduced by Steve Rider.
Producer Alastair Scott Stereo. .....

Last part of the musical series. Mr Pannini joins Melvin and Maureen in an operatic extravaganza. With Matthew Devitt, Sophie Aldred and Philip Hawthorn. (Stereo)

Further coverage from Woburn of the first round of the British Masters.

Including at
2.00, 3.00 News and Weather
Subtitled (news)
3.50 News and Weather
Subtitled (news)
Regional News; Weather

Cookery writer Mireille Johnston explores six more regions in the second series of her gastronomic journey. The Loire. Called "the garden of France", this region is as well known for its luscious fruit and vegetables as it is for its historic chateaux. Local specialities are sorrel and asparagus soup, pork with prunes and apples, and sauteed cultivated mushrooms.
Mireille demonstrates two puddings that make use of the local produce: a red berry gratin with creme anglaise and a marquise au chocolat. Producer Clare Bngstocke
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Arabian Nights adventure starring John Derek
Elaine Stewart
The young barber Hajji Baba encounters the beautiful Princess
Fawzia as she tries to elope with the evil prince Nur-EI-Din.
Director Don Weis (1954)..... + FILM REVIEWS pages 51-56

The Business Special
Including reports on the future of passenger aircraft and how major competitions to supply military aircraft to the British Army will affect the future of the UK's aerospace industry. See today's choices.
Producer Peter Hylton Cleaver

In the last of the series, wilderness expert Ray Mears shows different ways to use a tarpaulin. First shown as part of the countryside series Tracks.
(Stereo)

Adam Faith travels around Cuba, aware that millions of tourists are visiting the island while its native population is desperate to leave. Paddy Haycocks has a city-break in Italy in the medieval town of Bologna. With Penny Junor.
Series producer Liz Warner + Competition: page

Gateway to the Stars
Writers Robert Bauval and Adrian Gilbert believe that the great pyramid was an instrument of worship and not a tomb. Presenter Emma Freud meets the writers and talks to other experts who have devoted years of study to the pyramids. See today's choices.
Executive producer John Blake ; Producer
ChrisMann Rpt Subtitled .....315739

A repeated Late Show item focusing on the work of American photographer Richard Avedon. For 50 years he has been photographing the rich and famous. Postponed from 30 August
Director David Stewart
Followed by Video Nation Shorts Subtitled

With Jeremy Paxman.
(Subtitled)

In the first review programme of the new series, presenter Mark Lawson is joined by regular panellists Tom Paulin, Tony Parsons and Allison Pearson for discussions of John Irving's A Son of the Circus, Neil Bartlett's production of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Smoking and No Smoking, a collaboration between French film director Alain Resnais and playwright Alan Ayckbourn.

Open University preview.
Repeated tomorrow at 1.35pm

How did the universe begin?
(Shown on Sunday at 8.45am)
(to 0.35)