Introduced by D.R.C. Holmes

2.5-2.35 The Private Life of the Starling
Another look at the Private Lives documentary about the world's commonest and most successful bird
(BBC Natural History Unit, Bristol)
(Colour)

3.20 Twentieth-Century Focus: A Real Democracy?
Are 'student democracy' and 'people's democracy' more than just slogans?
Introduced by Michael Smee

This film looks at the work of a variety of teachers and their methods of exploiting the resources available to them.

by Lewis Carroll
With Bernard Cribbins

'She was up by the Looking-Glass, though she hardly knew how she had got there. It was beginning to melt away just like a bright silvery mist. In another moment Alice was right through the glass.'

with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves
Today John tackles a painting job 300 feet up a power station chimney.

An exciting Australian adventure series filmed on location on the Queensland Great Barrier Reef, starring the skipper and crew of the barquentine Endeavour.

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

Focuses on events and people making the news around town
The weekday news magazine at 6.0 pm varies regionally

by Allan Prior
Starring James Ellis
with Ian Cullen, Bernard Holley

One born every minute! And nobody, knows that better than the tallyman...
(For cast list see Tuesday, page 30)

Television's top reporters close in on the most interesting topics of the day
Robin Day, Michael Charlton, Nicholas Harman, Alan Hart, Richard Kershaw, Robert MacNeil, Julian Pettifer

Panorama's Julian Pettifer is the first independent British reporter to go into China since Anthony Grey was placed under house arrest in Peking.
In this, the 21st year of the People's Republic, Pettifer, with cameraman Ian Stone and sound recordist Robin Green, spent November filming life today in Mao's China - life after the turmoil of the cultural revolution. What they found is the subject of tonight's Panorama.
(Pettifer in China: page 3)

Presented by Robert Dougall
Weather
(The News men: page 9)

A new series by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert Steptoe, Harry H Corbett as Harold Steptoe

This week: Pot Black
with George Tovey, Patrick Milner, Alf Mangan, Bert Rogers

by Cyril Abraham

The wind blows free for any man's use. A hundred years ago all a man needed to make a start - and ultimately a fortune - was a ship, the courage to risk his life in her and the cunning to survive in a cut-throat business.
James Onedin found his ship and one other hazard - a woman to match him.

Presented by Ludovic Kennedy with the latest news in pictures
(24 Hours Profile 2: page 8)

(all except London and Wales)

Closedown