SATURDAY

BBC 2: 8.30 pm Born to Live' is an award. winning film about physical deformity and its effects on the afflicted and the people around them. It tells the moving story of a modern day 'elephant mart', Shum Leungman, and his friendship with the equally deformed 'glassbones-man', Wong Kwancheung.
Radio 4: 10.30 pm
Ted Harrison explores the moral and religious background to the food crisis In Africa to 'Soundings: "Lord, when did we see you hungry—. He talks to the Rev Dr Charles Elliott (former Director of Christian Aid) about the Christian response to such overwhelming suffering, and to Oxfam expert Nigel Twose about the relative merits of voluntary aid and government assistence.
SUNDAY
Radio 4: 7.50 am This week, 'Turning over New Leaves' features a r eview and reading from Augustine of Hippo translated and introduced by Mary Clark.
Channel 4: 1 pm Excellent series The Irish Weave', previously shown on HTV Wales. can now be seen on Channel Four. In the first programme, Emyr Daniel talks to Irish Prime Minister Dr Garret Fitzgerald.
ITV: 2.30 pm Omar Sherif and Julie Christie star in 'Dr Zhivago', the famous love story set in Russia at the time of the Communist Revolution.
BBC 1: 8.35 pm Spot the Parish Priest on 'Mastermind' tonight. He'll be the one in the black socks. BBC 1: 10.45 pm Mary Whitehouse and Hilary Jackson (of the Abortion Law Reform) are two of the 'activists' who feature in the first programme of 'The Politics of Pressure' which looks at the emergence of pressure group politics in the liberal atmosphere of the '60s Radio 4: 11 pm 'Epilogue: The Savage Pilgrimage'. The third of Wilfred De'ath's talks about becoming a Catholic is called 'Five Years in the Church'.
MONDAY
BBC 2: 8.15 pm Do not miss this second chance to see Horizon's The Miracle of Life'. Using new techniques and technology, this remarkable film reveals exactly what happens inside the human body from conception to birth and opens up a hitherto hidden microworld of outstanding beauty.
ASH WEDNESDAY
Radio 3: 4 pm Choral Evensong. live from St John's College. Cambridge, includes Gregorio Allegri's setting of Psalm 51 'Miserere mei Deus'
THURSDAY
BBC 1: 10.15 pm .
Lady Antonia Fraser and Ken Livingstone join Sir Robin Day's panel of guests in one of television's most entertaining programmes: 'Question Time'.
FRIDAY
BBC 2: 5.30 pm In 'York Minster: the Fire and the Faith', John Thirwell reports on the fire last July and describes how the ■ Minster's own craftsmen have set about the painstaking work of repair.