6.45 Blancmanges and Snowflakes
7.10 School of the Future?
7.35 The 'User Friendly' School
8.00 Probing the Structure of Liquids
8.25 Religion: Pilgrimage

The Why Bird Stop
It's Why's birthday - but has Simon really forgotten?
Puppeteer:
Fiona Beynon Brown. Music RICHARD BROWN Director
CLARE BRADLEY (R)

with Mark Chatterton , Tony Osoba. Christopher Lillicrap. Director CELIA THOMSON Producer JUDY MERRY BBC North West (R)

This morning Mary Stretch visits the home of Stanley and Muriel Farrant-Russell in Halstead, Kent.
Reading: Luke 14, vv 25-33. Director ROS NEVIN
Producer CHRIS LOUGHLIN Editor HELEN ALEXANDER

starring and Returning to the robust timberland wilderness of Montana, Tim Chipman 's homecoming is marred by the mysterious death of his father and the rough reaction of Croft Brunner to Tim's presence. With both men determined to succeed in the lumber business, a deadly rivalry begins....
Screenplay by ALLEN RIVKIN from a novel by DAN CUSHMAN Directed by JOE KANE 0 FILMS: page 16

with Diane Adams , George Shevstov , Louise Cullen and Zoe Williams.
Cherith has a problem. She is the only member of her father's congregation unable to speak in tongues. But then a young man enters her life. Directed Dy SHIRLEY BARRETT

The last of the summer monthly roadshows.
In Scotland this time, a visit to deaf people in the highlands and islands, and a brief look at an event in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Presented by Clive Mason and Maureen Denmark. (e)

Rothamsted Experimental Station in Hertfordshire is the founding father of agricultural research in the world. Its work covers a huge range, from viruses in bees to the genetic manipulation of arable crops. Yet like all other public sector agricultural research establishments, it too has had to face Government cuts. Ian Breach reports. Plus at 12.55pm the weather for the countryside with Michael Fish.
Director PATRICK FLAVELLE Producer MIKE DERBY
Editor MICHAEL FITZGERALD BBC Pebble Mill

with Moira Stuart
followed by The High Chaparral: The Deceivers

Written by John Starr Neindorff

starring
(R)

by Gilly Fraser.
"I want you to stay here with me. Get married, have kids..."
(Ceefax subtitles)

Continues a season of British movies about the Second World War. Starring with and
El Alamein , October 1942: Field Marshal
Erwin Rommel , the 'Desert Fox', is relieved of his command and returns to Germany. Here he is asked to join the group of officers planning to assassinate Hitler and suddenly he finds himself faced with an agonizing choice - between his duty as a soldier and as a German.
Screenplay by NUNNALLY JOHNSON Based on the biography by BRIGADIER DESMOND YOUNG. MC Produced by NUNNALLY JOHNSON Directed by HENRY HATHAWAY
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Presented by Sir David Attenborough. From Slimbridge to Antarctica, Peter Scott campaigned, cajoled and inspired people to save the natural world. Painter, explorer, scientist, inventor, sportsman, broadcaster, he excelled in all these pursuits. David Attenborough traces his accomplishments around the world in this story of Peter Scott's remarkable life.

Earthwatch: page 79

Presented by Selina Scott
Jeff Banks , Caryn Franklin and Raj Dhanda.
Today, the launch of a fashion design competition for schools; leading hairdresser Trevor Sorbie takes the short cut to
Colchester; and there are designs for top men in the high street. The King's Road is under threat as London's most fashionable thoroughfare, and a report on how the game of polo has turned out players and punters in mint condition. Producer CLARE STRIDE
Executive producer ROGER CASSTLES BBC Pebble Mill

by Gerald Durrell.
Screenplay in ten parts by Charles Wood. Starring and with 2: Guided by Spiro, the Durrell family begins to settle in on Corfu. George attempts to teach Gerry arithmetic, but Gerry is far more interested in doing business with the Rose-Beetle Man.
Music composed and conducted by DARYL RUNSWICK
Producer JOE WATERS
Director PETER BARBER-FLEMING (R)
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Paul Daniels appeals on behalf of the Understanding Disabilities Educational
Trust which aims to create a greater awareness and understanding of people with visual, hearing, physical and mental disabilities.
Cliff Michelmore and Lynette Lithgow report. With subtitles for the hard-of-hearing.
Producer JILL DAWSON
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Moira Stuart with news and comment from Britain and around the world. Weather

Debbie Thrower visits
Fleetwood - once a major fishing port and tourist resort.
She meets Jack and Freda Kelly who have known the joys and sorrows of the fishing industry. She also visits the factory where Linda Lofthouse 's family manufactures a traditional product enjoyed all over the world. The people of Fleetwood join Debbie in the North Euston Gardens overlooking Morecambe Bay to sing their songs of praise. Alleluia raise the anthem (Unser Herrscher); Pull for the shore;
Fight the good fight (Duke Street); Bread and fishes; Just as I am
(Misericordia); I watch the sunrise; Eternal Father, strong to save
(Melita); Manx fishermen's evening hymn (Peel Castle).
Researcher HELENA TAYLOR Producer NOEL VINCENT Editor ROGER HUTCHINGS BBC North West
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by Roy Clarke.
July 1939: any thoughts of impending war fade into insignificance the morning after the annual co-op dance. It must have been all that dreamy music....
2: Compo Drops In with Designer STEPHAN PACZAI Produced and directed by MIKE STEPHENS
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devised by Gerard Glaister and Allan Prior , written by Mervyn Haisman. Starring and 2:
'One time I'd have trusted you completely. Not any more. So don't ever put me in a situation like that again, or you'll regret it.'
Title music SIMON MAY and LESLIE OSBORNE
Film cameraman JOHN WILLIAMS Designer LYNDA KETTLE
Producer GERARD GLAISTER Director ROBERT REED
0 BOOK: 'Howards' Way by Gerard Glaister , £5.95 paperback, available from bookshops.
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Written by Carla Lane.
Adrian accidentally becomes a hero. Billy is troubled by his impending divorce.
Aveline is preoccupied with pregnancy, and Joey, for the first time, faces real trouble.
Title music DAVID MACKAY
Film cameraman JOHN RECORD Film sound RICHARD MERRICK Designer RICHARD DUPRE Produced and directed by ROBIN NASH
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by Mick Ford. Starring with
James Carlisle is a success story. His career as an architect is thriving. The pain of his divorce has faded and he sees his children every weekend.
But when his ex-wife Lyn falls passionately in love with the volatile Bernard, James's cosy, ordered world is threatened and he is spurred into action.
Music RICHARD HARVEY Editor TARIQ ANWAR
Designer GRAEME THOMSON
Photography JOHN MCGLASHAN Producer RICHARD BROKE Director ROBERT YOUNG
(First showing on British television)
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Martyn Lewis brings you the latest national and international news with BBC teams at home and abroad. Weather

As We Forgive Them Elaine and Michael Counsell's 5-year-old son was killed by a drunken driver. Five members of Colin Caffell's family were shot dead. Catherine Hill was held hostage, then mutilated by a hand grenade in the Karachi hijack. Ruth Fuller 's 19-year-old son was stabbed to death in an unprovoked attack. Can victims ever come to forgive those who have devastated their lives?
Jenni Murray talks to these five individuals. They each explain what they think about forgiveness and how they now feel towards the person responsible.
Producer CATHARINE SEDDON
Everyman editor JANE DRABBLE (R)