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6.15 Pure Maths: Pi and e

6.40 Maths Methods: Projectiles

7.05 Learning and Doing Maths

7.30 Health and Disease: Bloodlines - a Family Legacy
(Subtitled)

7.55 Kedleston Hall: Robert Adam's Greatest Design

8.20 Poland: Democracy and Change

8.45 Language Development: Ways with Words

The show that asks whether outrageous facts are false or true. Today's teasers include reggae star Pato Banton's singing parrot and a Nottingham family haunted by a slime-producing spook.
Competition: to register your vote ring [number removed] (False) or [number removed] (True). Calls cost no more than 20p. For a copy of the rules send an SAE to: [address removed]

Introduced by Sue Barker.

12.30 Motor Racing
Live coverage from Imola of the San Marino Grand Prix, as Britain's Damon Hill seeks the form that gave him victory in Argentina earlier this month and Nigel Mansell makes his return to Grand Prix racing. This afternoon's race marks the first anniversary of the deaths on the same circuit of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger. Highlights are tonight at 10.00 or Tuesday at 2.0 pm.

3.00 World Snooker
Live action from the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, on the concluding day's play in the final of the world championships. Last year's final, acknowledged as one of the best ever, came down to the final frame. Stephen Hendry took the decider and with it his fourth world title, leaving Jimmy White a beaten finalist for the sixth time.

Basketball
During-the interval in the world snooker final, coverage from Wembley Arena of the league championship semi-final play-offs. Sheffield Sharks, this year's league champions, were the pre-tournament favourites.

Contributors

Presenter:
Sue Barker
Commentary (Basketball):
Stuart Storey
Producer:
Martin Hopkins

Highlights from the final matches of this season's First Division programme in England and Wales. Plus a look ahead to next month's World Cup in South Africa, focusing on Group D which includes Scotland and France; a preview of next week's Pilkington Cup Final between Bath and Wasps; and the Try of the Season competition.
Presented by John Inverdale.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
John Inverdale
Editor:
Gerard Lane

The big mammals are the superstars of Africa. But alongside these large, charismatic beasts is a cast of smaller creatures usually overlooked. For instance, a giraffe might play host to 50,000 ticks. These and others like them are much more important in maintaining the balance of nature than the big game. Working in South Africa's Kruger National Park, award-winning film-makers David and Carol Hughes focus on the fascinating "creepy crawlies" whose lives are often far more astonishing than those of the gazelles and their predators.
They enter the catacombs of a termite mound, witness the relentless quest of a deadly fly that needs wasps to help her breed, record the fierce competition for dung among Africa's most important beetles, and shudder at the mini-monsters that hunt after dark.
Narrated by Andrew Sachs.

Followed by Victory Stills
Former broadcaster Frank Gillard tells the personal story behind another VE Day photograph.

Contributors

Film-maker:
David Hughes
Film-maker:
Carol Hughes
Narrator:
Andrew Sachs
Series Producer:
John Sparks
Presenter (Victory Stills):
Frank Gillard

News and action from the final of this year's World Championship at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Last year's final went to the last few balls of the last possible frame, with Stephen Hendry snatching the title from Jimmy White and taking his third successive title. With over 13 million viewers tuned in, the championship was confirmed as one of the country's premier sporting events. David Vine is the host once again, as 17 days of skill, calculation, luck and drama reach a climax. This year's champion claims a record first prize of £190,000.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine
Commentary:
Ted Lowe
Commentary:
Clive Everton
Commentary:
Ray Edmonds
Commentary:
John Spencer
Commentary:
John Virgo
Commentary:
Dennis Taylor
Director:
Trevor Morris
Director:
John Watts

Highlights of this afternoon's San Marino Grand Prix from Imola.

Following last year's tragic deaths here of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger, the circuit has been extensively altered to slow the cars and improve safety. Nigel Mansell makes his delayed return to Grand Prix racing in his new McLaren with the larger cockpit, while the Williams team and Damon Hill will be looking for another win after last month's success in Argentina.

BBC Grand Prix 95: available now, price £3.50, from newsagents.

Contributors

Commentary:
Murray Walker
Commentary:
Jonathan Palmer
Commentary:
Tony Jardine
Producer:
Mark Wilkin
Executive Producer:
Jim Reside

David Cronenberg's psychological thriller, starring Jeremy Irons, Genevieve Bujold

Gynaecologists Beverly and Elliot Mantle are brilliant identical twins who run a fertility clinic in Toronto and share every aspect of each other's life. When they both become involved with the same patient, childless actress Claire Niveau, their lives take a horrific turn.
David Cronenberg also directed The Fly and Naked Lunch.
(1988) (Stereo)
Gun Crazy is on Friday at 12.15am
Film Reviews pages 59-64

Contributors

Director:
David Cronenberg
Beverly/Elliot Mantle:
Jeremy Irons
Claire Niveau:
Genevieve Bujold
Dr Cary Weiler:
Heide von Palleske
Danuta:
Barbara Gordon
Laura:
Shirley Douglas
Anders Wolleck:
Stephen Lack
Leo:
Nick Nichols
Arlene:
Lynne Cormack
Birchall:
Damir Andrei
Mrs Bookman:
Miriam Newhouse
Superintendent:
David Hughes
Dean of Medicine:
Richard Farrell
Anatomy class supervisor:
Warren Davis
Beverly Mantle, aged 9:
Jonathan Haley
Elliot Mantle, aged 9:
Nicholas Haley
Raffaella:
Marsha Moreau
Mr Glaser:
Bob Bainborough

The major developments over the past seven days in the Los Angeles courtroom where former American footballer turned film star OJ Simpson is accused of the murder of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. With cameras capturing the atmosphere inside the courtroom, experts attempt to explain the legal strategies employed by the respective teams of lawyers.
Peter Pringle presents this weekly review and discusses the important issues raised by the murder trial that is still gripping the US.
Series producer Janey Walker

Contributors

Unknown:
J Simpson
Unknown:
Ronald Goldman.
Unknown:
Peter Pringle

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