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Coverage of the Masters from Wembley Conference Centre. Stephen Hendry, who has won the Masters six times in eight years, begins the defence of his title against Tony Drago or Brian Morgan. Presented by David Vine.

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine

Second in a five-part series revealing how aspects of people's everyday lives can depend on higher mathematics.

Fisher Dilke explains how a branch of mathematics called game theory is the best way of working out winning moves and strategies.
Originally a method of explaining economics, game theory was developed when mathematicians discovered that nearly every living creature plays some form of game to achieve results, from the tactics of badgers trying to get rid of fleas to the behaviours of presidents John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis.
(Stereo)

Contributors

Presenter:
Fisher Dilke
Director:
Nick Cory-Wright
Executive Producer:
Patrick Uden

Further coverage from the Masters at Wembley Conference Centre where 1994 champion Alan McManus, ranked sixth in the world, starts his campaign against Steve Davis, who won the title twice during the eighties. At stake is a place in the quarter-finals. Presented by David Vine.
(Coverage continues on Sportsnight at 10.50pm on BBC1)

Contributors

Presenter:
David Vine
Snooker player:
Alan McManus
Snooker player:
Steve Davis

To celebrate the 250th edition of Food and Drink, the programme revisits the Pudding Club, a group of eccentrics devoted to the great British dessert, and reports on how the club has developed since the first visit in 1988. In the studio Michael Barry cooks a warming Tuscan bean soup and sizzling beef fajitas, while Jilly Goolden and Oz Clarke taste and recommend some classic French muscadet, macon, beaujolais and bordeaux wines. Plus food news from Chris Kelly.
Producer Moyra Rose; Series producer Tim Hincks
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Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Barry
Unknown:
Jilly Goolden
Unknown:
Oz Clarke
Unknown:
Chris Kelly
Producer:
Moyra Rose

On the fifth leg of his 1,000-mile journey along the coast of Namibia, explorer Benedict Allen enters Damaraland in the north. He has problems with the camels. One is lagging further behind, and Allen worries as much for his animals' safety as his own as they cross lion and rhino country. The camels take fright when they encounter wild elephants, and Allen then has to find the Himba nomads who hold his supplies for the last leg of the journey.
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Contributors

Presenter:
Benedict Allen
Executive Producer:
Bob Long

Comedy series about long-standing friends. Mel is bored with her job and decides having a baby is the answer.
(Stereo)

Followed by Video Nation Shorts

Contributors

Writer:
Paul Makin
Director:
Angela De Chastelai Smith
Producer:
Esta Charkham
Mel:
Penny Bunton
Claire:
Pippa Haywood
Bob:
Jason Watkins
Jim:
James Simmons
Murray:
Tony Gardner
Boring man:
Richard Albrecht
Nurse:
Emma Cregeen

Open University
12.30 Climates of Opinion
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1.30 Making the News

Nightschool TV
2.00 Square One 9-14

BBC Focus
4.00 Teaching and Learning with IT
4.30 Teaching and Learning with IT
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5.00 Inside Europe
5.30 Film Education

Open University
6.00 Just Seventeen
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6.25 Pyramids, Plato and Football
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6.50 Symmetry Counts
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