from The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge

First of today's live broadcasts as cameras and bird-watchers scan the winter landscape for sightings of wild geese.

BBC Bristol

A magazine for Asian viewers Produced and presented by MAHENDRA KAUL
Director KRISHAN COULD. BBC Birmingham

A series of 16 programmes
4: 58 Jubilee Road

A series of 19 programmes which aims to help mentally-handicapped people get more out of life.

Presented by Brian Rix

The last of five programmes which aim to help the families of disabled people, with Tony Northmore

The majority of disabled people are elderly. This programme shows how, in a few areas, statutory care services are augmented by services provided by the Crossroads Care Attendant Scheme.

A series of 20 programmes
3: The Russian Alphabet, part 3

A 25-part Italian language course 17: Introduced by 'MARISA DILLON-WESTON

Ten programmes on ways of improving race relations.

A church is a place of worship, even when there is no congregation present. Each building has something to say, a story to tell.
Today R. T. BROOKS is at the Parish Church of St Andrew, Rugby. Singer ROBERT SPENCER
Television presentation by RAYMOND SHORT

'Forgive us our trespasses ...'
THE REV KENNETH GREET, Secretary of the Methodist Conference, talks With RAYMOND SHORT about the meaning and nature of sin - and God's forgiveness. Continuing our series which explores the Christian faith - what can Christians today mean by some of their key words and phrases?
Director JOHN WILCOX
Producer MICHAEL SHOESMITH BBC Birmingham

Today, another look at four useful and popular methods for remembering spelling.
Presented by BARRY TOOK
Director JULIAN STENHOUSE Producer CAROLINE PICK
(Repeated: Tuesday BBC2 at 11.25 am)
Adults wanting help with reading, writing or spelling can ring [number removed] or send their name and address to: Write Away, ro Box 7, London W3 6XJ

[Starring] Leif Erickson as Big John Cannon, Cameron Mitchell as Buck Cannon,
Mark Slade as Blue, Linda Cristal as Victoria, Henry Darrow as Manolito
(First shown on BBC2)

An invitation to join three men in a hide! Rolf Harris and Sir Peter Scott with Tony Soper from The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge.
At dawn this morning the team of bird-watchers and outside broadcast cameras began their vigil from ' hides' overlooking the Severn Estuary.
Now, as on every winter afternoon at feeding time, ' Rushy Pen' is where the action is - a flurry of colourful activity as the bewick swans make spectacular take-offs and landings.
Production assistant CAROLINE WEAVER Produced by PETER BALE. BBC Bristol

A Risk Business special report on the world's most extravagant fairground, in which Michael Rodd sets out in search of the ultimate fairground ride. In two of America's sunshine states, California and Florida, he finds himself taking part in a high-wire act, in a Wild West shoot-out, and in the breath-taking twists and turns of a 400-foot aquatic Cresta run. Participation, it seems, is the name of the Theme Park game.

Crufts is just one week away and throughout the country entrants are preparing their dogs for the big occasion.
Just what goes into the preparation and presentation of a dog for a big show? What does winning mean to the winner and how do you judge between, say, a great dane and a Pekingese?
Stanley Dangerfield looks at these and other aspects of this, the highlight of the dog calendar. Producer PETER massey

The last heat in the hunt for the most impressive school science project this year.
Introduced by John Tidmarsh The judges:
Professor Colin Blakemore Professor Aubrey Manning Sir James Redmond
They have to choose from:
Fresh water by biological action! from KING'S SCHOOL, TYNEMOUTH
The shape of musical sound, from ROMSEY SCHOOL, HANTS
The winkle-watchers of Norfolk from LONGSANDS SCHOOL, ST NEOTS
Studio director ROY NORTON Producer COLIN RIACH

with Kenneth Kendall
Weatherman

Introduced by Cliff Michelmore
For holiday-makers who don't like being ' packaged', Italy has always extended a welcome, and Tuscany's combination of scenery and historic cities is well worth exploring, as John Carter discovers. This week's second film report looks at a particularly inexpensive deal, a coach-trip to a camping holiday on the Costa Brava. Norma Shepherd reports.
Producer TOM SAVAGE

starring Jean Gabin , Alain Delon and Lino Ventura
When Vittorio Manalese , a Sicilian gangster, springs Roger Sartet from jail so that he can take part in the heist of an entire jewellery exhibition, he also sets off a relentless manhunt. Sartet is a convicted killer and Inspector Le Goff is determined to recapture him.
Screenplay by HENRI VERNZUIL , JOSE GIOVANNI and PIERRE PELLEGRI from the novel by AUGUSTE LE BRETON
Produced by JACQUES E. STRAUSS
Directed by HENRI VERNEUIL . Films: p 23

by Allan Prior
A series of six dramatised reconstructions of espionage stories.
featuring Richard Johnson as Richard Sorge
'Time is scarce - if we fail Moscow now, then six years of work will have been wasted.' The vital question for Intelligence was: When war finally breaks out between Germany and Russia, which way will the Japanese move? Sorge's spy-ring had to find the answer.

with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather

A series of 15 films
5: Morning Till Night
IKUO KONDA is a foreman in a large car factory. He joined the company when he left school and he'll have a secure job there until he retires. KATSUJI mizuumi works in a small shipyard, but spends much of his free-time running the family farm. He has little of the security and few of the benefits of working for a large corporation.
Photography NIGEL MEAKIN Film editor KEITH RAVEN
Directed by PETER RAMSDEN Produced by HOWARD SMITH

from The Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge
Close of Day
Highlights of today's events; and a last glimpse of the wild bewicks at rest on floodlit Swan Lake.
BBC Bristol