at Minsmere
At first light this morning, outside broadcast cameras on the Suffolk coast began a day-long
- - - watch over the lagoons of this RSPB Reserve.
As Avocets, Gulls and many other water birds come into camera range, Marian Foster sets the scene from the East Hide;
Roger Lovegrove and Tony Soper describe their first sightings of the wild birds.
BBC Bristol le

Asian Press in Britain
Spotlight on newspapers and weeklies, in Asian languages and English, published by and for Asians settled here. Presented and produced by SALEEM SHAHED
Studio director KRISHAN could BBC Birmingham

A series of five programmes
BRIAN REDHEAD examines some of the implications of the new technological revolution for people in industry today.
1: Thinking Small
'Software control' is said to be the key to the importance of 'the micro'. But what does that mean? And how is microelectronics helping small companies to stay competitive at a difficult time?
Film editor M. A. C. ADAMS Producer DAVID ALLEN

A series of ten programmes
9: Do Spies Lip-read?
Lip-reading practice this week is based on the possibility that maybe ... who knows ... think how useful it would be ...
In the sketch Tom Adams goes for a job interview.
Director JOHN BROOKE Producer BRIGIT BARRY

Five films about Spain, with interviews in Spanish. 3 : Galicia - Rural Life
Film editor MIKE PAVETT
Director DAVID WILSON
Book (same title), £2.50, from bookshops

JIMMY YOUNG'S
Guide to Everyday Maths
A series of ten programmes to help you brush up your confidence with numbers.
8: Pictures and Charts
With RAY LONNEN and PETER AUBREY
Sketches by ciiris miller
Production ANNA JACKSON , CHRIS JELLEY
Book (same title), £2.50, from bookshops For information about local classes in maths, ring [number removed](England), [number removed](Scotland). [number removed] (Wales), [number removed]8 (N. Ireland), between 9.30 and 5.30, Monday to Friday.

Gaelic for Beginners
Twenty programmes for beginners in Scots Gaelic.
Presented by MAIREAD ROSS 4: Oidhche mhath leat
With SIMON MACKENZIE , CATRIONA MONTGOMERY, CATHERINE ANNE MAC -PHEE, DONALD SMITH , RHODA MAC DONALD, RORY MACDONALD , ANGUS PETER CAMPBELL
Producer NORMAN MCCANDLISH
Book, records and cassettes (same title), from bookshops

A third series of ten programmes presented by DELIA SMITH
Cream, Ice-Cream and Yoghurt
Guest PETER BRADFORD demonstrates a foolproof method of making your own deliciously thick and tasty yoghurt.
Delia then shows how to make mouth-watering blackcurrant ice-cream and an appetising supper dish, pork chops with cream and mushrooms.
Director PAULA GILDER Producer PETER RIDING
Book (same title), £4.25, from bookshops

In the second of our explorations into the Christian life, TONY BURNHAM searches for the goal of freedom, through which we are born again. Our meditation and prayers are led by R. T. BROOKS.
Director PAUL LOOSLEY
Producer STEPHEN WlIITTLE BBC Manchester

The first of a series of five films which show artists making original prints. NORMAN ACKROYD takes his etching plates to the White Horse Hill, Uffington, and works on them directly. He then completes an etching back in his studio.
Film editor HOWARD SHARP Producer SUZANNE DAVIES

at Minsmere
Nesting Avocets and Black-headed Gulls continue to be the centre of attention. Cameramen are also on the lookout for Terns and Plovers, as well as migrants passing through on their way to Scandinavia.
Birdwatchers MARIAN FOSTER
ROGER LOVEGROVE , TONY SOPER

at Minsmere
Up-to-the-minute reports from hides overlooking the nesting birds.

from Biggin Hill
Raymond Baxter introduces a selection of items from this year's great flying display, featuring historic aircraft, including the ROYAL NAVY HISTORIC FLIGHT; aerobatic displays by civil and military pilots, with the RED ARROWS again demonstrating their incomparable precision flying; and parachuting from the RAF Falcons.
Producer PETER MASSEY

at Minsmere
Focus on the Avocet
A time of peak activity for this spectacular bird. Most are brooding eggs or guarding newly-hatched chicks. Some late arrivals may still be performing attractive courting displays - but they can be aggressive too, especially when defending their island nests from intruding Shelducks and Gulls. Live action seen from the hides, described by MARIAN FOSTER , ROGER LOVEGROVE , TONY SOPER.

Rivers
A series of five programmes 2: The Tweed
Peter Purves travels the length of the Tweed on the border of Scotland and England -'the disputed land'. He discovers something of the spirit of the Borderers at Flodden Field, at Scotland's ancient watchtowers, and indeed, in the battle between the leaping Tweed salmon and the men who try to catch it, by fair means or foul.
Written by DOROTHY SMITH Film editor SUSAN SPIVEY
Photography JOHN GOODYER
Executive producer DAVID HARGREAVES Producer SARAH BELLINGS

at Minsmere Latest news of the birds and a last look at the live action.
(Birdwatch highlights tonight, 10 50 pm)

with Peter Woods ; Weatherman

by Jane Austen, dramatised in five parts by Fay Weldon

Mr Collins who will, in time, inherit Longbourn, seeks a reconciliation with the Bennet family. He intends to choose one of the girls for a wife - a plan of atonement he thinks excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.

"Fay Weldon's dramatisation visually and textually exploits Jane Austen 's perceptive observation of social attitudes." (Morning Star)

(Fay Weldon is on Paperbacks, Wed 11.10)

appeals on behalf of Television for the Deaf (RNID)
Donations, preferably by crossed PO or cheque, should be sent to: Richard Baker , Television for the Deaf, [address removed]

starring Gregory Peck
Jane Wyman, Claude Jarman Jr
While his parents struggle to scratch a living from the land they have cleared in the scrub wilderness of the Florida backwoods, young Jody longs for a pet of his very own. This simple story of a boy and his pet fawn is one of the most moving and beautiful films of its kind and earned Claude Jarman Jr an Oscar for his performance as Jody.
Screenplay by paul oscorn based on the novel by MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS Produced by sidnky franklin
Director CLARENCE BROWN. Films: pnge 11

Weather

From the 10,000 letters you send in every week, Esther Rantzen brings you some of the zaniest and funniest. And with reporters Paul Heiney and Chris Serle investigates the more bizarre consumer sagas and real-life problems.
Also featuring Cyril Fletcher with your odes and oddities of the week. Richard Stilgoe and his travelling piano go round Britain in search of things ridiculous and unusual to sing about.
Director BOB MARSLAND
Producers HENRY MURRAY , ESTHER RANTZEN Editor RONALD NEIL

at Minsmere
Highlights of events recorded from dawn to dusk at the RSPB Reserve in Suffolk. Birdwatchers
MARIAN FOSTER , ROGER LOVEGROVE and TONY SOPER
Directed by john dobson
Produced by PETER BALE. BBC Bristol