6.40 Why Comparative Politics?

7.5 Maths

7.30 Genes and Development

Story: Mr Bear goes to Sea written by CHIZUKO KURATOMI illustrated by KOZO KAKIMOTO Presenters:
SARAH LONG , DON SPENCER

The first day of the Ascot September Meeting.
2.30 Clarence House Stakes (6f)
3.5 Diadem Stakes (6f)
Top British and Irish sprinters clash for a first prize of over £4,500.
3.40 Cumberland Lodge Stakes dim)
Britain's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe hope Bruni goes on trial for the big Paris race.
4.10 Gordon Carter Stakes (2m) Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN
JIMMY LINDLEY , JOHN HANMER
TV presentation DENNIS MONGER

5.0 Geologist on the Moon

5.25 A Fish in a Tank

5.50 Understanding Aggro

6.15 Staff Development

6.40 Social Change

at Nature's Jekyll and Hydes
To be bom a second time as a completely different creature is one of the miracles of nature. Narrator ERIC THOMPSON
Producer PETER RIDING

Presented by Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler including every Thursday, UK Report from BBC news correspondents in Britain with Richard Kershaw and newsreader Peter Woods
Editor JOHN TISDALL

One year in Heddington, Wiltshire. A documentary serial in eight parts. 1: A Scattered Village, a Mucky Village
November 1975, and the lanes are splattered with mud - and worse. Should the farmers clean up the mess their cows are making? The Parish Council is divided. There's another problem: the church roof will collapse unless it's repaired. The only way of raising £10,000 in a hurry is to sell its heirloom-the Elizabethan flagon. To crown all, Mother Goose, Heddington's panto, runs into a disaster on the very eve of the First Night.
Narrator DAVID PRITCHARD
Film editor JOHN BARNES Executive producer ROGER MILLS
Producer MARK ANDERSON

Robert Robinson introduces the first of a new series of weekly programmes about books and their writers and readers. Burgess in Monaco
This week an interview with novelist Anthony Burgess, filmed in Monaco where he now lives, having spent several years in exile in Malta and Italy. Now approaching his 60th birthday, Burgess looks back over his writing career and talks about why he lives abroad, the fuss over the film of his novel A Clockwork Orange, writing for films, the music he composes, and the dawn visitations he has from the ghost of Henry James.
Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT Executive director WILL WYATT

starring Dirk Bogarde
A famous composer, Gustav von Aschenbach, comes to Venice Lido weary and dispirited, for a holiday. Among the hotel guests he sees a boy who seems to embody the beauty, grace and harmony he has been seeking all his life. When a cholera epidemic strikes the city, von Aschenbach doggedly stays on, unable to leave while the boy remains.
Based on the novel Death in Venice by THOMAS MANN
Director LUCHINO VISCONTI Films: page 21

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There are over 200 community groups in Liverpool. All this week Open Door hands over television facilities and air-time to some of them. The programmes are transmitted live.
Tonight: Women Move
' In a city where most opportunities are self-made some women fight for equality.'
Made with the help of the BBC Community Programme Unit.

ANGELA DOWN reads Tapestry Moths by PETER REDGROVB