with Frank Bough and Selina Scott
For timetable of regular features see Monday. Plus today:
Pop with Mike Smith between 7.45 and 8.0
The That's Life file with Esther Rantzen between 7.30 and 7.45 and phone-in between 8.30 and 9.0

with Tony Soper

Living creatures occupy every corner and crevice of the planet. And yet in the hot deserts of Arizona, the cold waters of Greenland and deep down in the rocks of New Mexico and France, survival needs special kit and skill.

On these frontiers there are fish without eyes, big beef dressed in duffle coats and deadly snakes that keep their heads cool.

BBC Bristol

Presenter Carol Chell Guests
Johnny Ball , Elizabeth Millbank

Loneliness, the changing social environment and language are some of the problems of elderly Asian women living in this country. Dr Suman Dutta chairs a discussion about 'Care for the Elderly'. Also taking part are Bimal Malhotra, Begum Durrani, Gouri Roy, Swaran Talwar and Mariam Siddiqi. Music is provided by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mubarak Ali Khan and Party.
BBC Pebble Mill

with Richard Whitmore and Michael Cole
Weather JIM BACON
12.57 Regional News
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)

The cooking Canon from Carlisle, The Rev Peter Eley , is back in the kitchen.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill

A See-Saw programme
Bod and the Kite

1553 -Today's headlines ...
A 15-year-old girl is caught in a bitter power-struggle for the English crown ... a Bristol sea-captain sledges 1,500 miles across Northern Russia to meet Ivan the Terrible ... the first potato arrives from Peru ...
Chris Serle takes a look at the big news stories of 1553 - and some of the small ones with Judy Merry , John Mundy and Dr Christopher Haigh.

with Cornel Wilde, Robert Douglas The Queen of France is ageing, and beset by the machinations of the villainous Due de Lavalle. Only four persons can save the throne of France: the sons of D'Artagnan, Porthos and Aramis, and the daughter of Athos - Claire. Maureen O'Hara, keen both of blade and temper, proves herself the equal of any swordsman in this swashbuckling colour adventure.
Screenplay WALTER ferris, JOSEPH HOFFMAN Produced by JERROLD T. BRANDT
Directed by LEWIS ALLEN. Films: page 15

Introduced by Tony Hart
An animation series with Morph and his friends in their under-the-table world.
(Repeat)

Listen to the wind, when it whistles Presenter Floella Benjamin Guests Fraser Wilson
Richard Brown , Martin Frith Story: The Painted Dragon by RON RICHES

A cartoon series
A hundred bucks for Heathcliff from the cowboys' bucking bronco.

with Cecile Paoli
European Folk Tales: The Hunter
An exciting Yugoslav tale about dragon-hunting and giant-slaying. Illustrations by ANNA DZIERZEK

A five-part series by BOB BLOCK starring Clive Dunn
Mr Watkins is attacked by the dog, pushed out of the window, covered in mashed potato, shoved in a cake and drenched by a hot water bottle. Will Grandad's recipe for a gypsy cake make him feel better?
Devised by CUVE DUNN Lighting DEREK FAWLEY Designer JOHN BONE
Producer JEREMY SWAN

News reports and background on Ceefax

with Johnny Ball
A lighthearted exploration of science and number.
This week in The Maze of Ways from A to B, Johnny takes off his waistcoat without removing his jacket and spins his way through maps and mazes, helped by a robot mouse.
So if you're knot amused, at least you'll be amazed.
Written by JOHNNY BALL Music PETER MOSS
Designer GRAEME THOMSON Producer ALBERT BARBER BBC Bristol

The Beauty Contest with the voices of KENNETH WILLIAMS
Written and directed by NICK SPARGO

including
The News with tonight's Weather and Regional Magazines
Nick Ross , Sally Magnusson and Beverly Anderson present the issues of the hour and some stories with a smile - a lively mix of news, views and topical features from Britain and around the world including national and international news read by Richard Whitmore.
Sixty Minutes reporters travel far and wide to bring you the people and the places that are making the news, at home and abroad.
And contributions from The Special Correspondents, Sixty Minutes' own team of humorists, with some less serious observations on the day s events. Your countdown through Sixty Minutes
5.40 The News
5.54* Weather
5.55* Regional Magazines
6.38* Closing headlines

Join Russell Harty and his guests m London's Greenwood Theatre for TV s liveliest half-hour.
As always there'll be music, good conversation, and Harty's usual collection of the unusual.
Director RON ISTED
Producer JON PLOWMAN Editor TOM GUTTERIDGE

Presented by Jill Cochrane , Nigel Farrell , Dr Michael O'Donnell
The way we live, the food we eat, the doctors we visit, all affect our health. This weekly magazine of ten programmes brings stories from the world of health-care to help you and your family keep fit and feel better.
Producer HILARY HENSON
Assistant producer ANN POINTON Studio director JULIE HARRUP Editor DICK GILLlNG
For further information send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Medical Express, BBC Television Centre, London [Postcode removed] 0 HELPLINES: page 77

starring and guest starring
Louie Goes Too Far
Lecherous Louie runs foul of the local women's anti-sexual-harassment-at-work convenor when he sinks to spying on Elaine in the ladies' room....
Written by DANIEL KALLIS
Directed by MICHAEL LESSAC

A six-part series by DOUGLAS LIVINGSTONE starring with 4:King Neptune
'The King Neptune Fishing Competition hasn't been held since the Festival of Britain. Of course, it won't be a giant affair this year. The big thing is to re-establish the event. The Cocklesea Neptune.'
Music composed and conducted by MARC WILKINSON
Videotape editor RON BOWMAN Lighting CLIVE THOMAS Designer CHRIS EDWARDS Producer RUTH BOSWELL Directed by BARRY DAVIS

with John Humphrys and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman

A Fast Boat to China
Alan Whicker aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 on her three-month winter voyage around the Pacific Hong Kong-Qingdao
'A different adventure every day....' In the last of this series the QE2 reaches the two Chinas - Capitalist and Communist. At Hong Kong 2,000 workers swarm over the liner - and leave her whiter than white. At Qingdao in Red China the city almost comes to a halt as the cruisers disembark. Made-up children chant their doll-like welcomes to these 'visitors from another planet', while in the stadium before 20,000 Chinese the QE2 football team takes on Qingdao's best. Nigel Broackes , the man who in effect owns the QE2, talks about her future - and his passengers reflect upon their comfortable adventure ...
Film cameraman MARTIN SAUNDERS Film recordist KEITH RODGERSON Film editor IAN PITCH
Director MICHAEL TUCHNER. BBC Bristol