6.5 Modern Art: St Ives. 6.38 Light, the Recorder. 6.55Biology: Digestion. 7.20 DNA: The Thread of Life. 7.45 Just Genes for Judy.

Story:
The Elves and the Shoemaker
Written by the BROTHERS GRIMM Illustrated by KATRIN BRANDT Presenters
Sarah Long , Don Spencer

(Repeat)

Introduced by Johnny Morris and TERRY NUTKINS
A second chance to see Johnny and Terry's adventure when, magically reduced in size to only two inches high, they are lost in the long grass beside a farm pond. Coming face to face with frogs, water vales, herons, pond insects and many other animals, they find that life, when you are the size of a mouse, is a battle for survival.
Producer MIKE BEYNON
Director JOHN DOWNER . BBC Bristol

A classical cliffhanger serial in 12 exciting chapters, starring
11: The Sea Battle
Terry hears a ship is awaiting a mysterious cargo and sets out in a patrol boat. Boroff orders the giant idiot Thorg into action, and a deadly combat follows ...
Directed by WILLIAM WITNEY and ALAN JAMES
A REPUBLIC serial

Freddie Stockdale built an opera house in his back garden, from the remains of an old brick wall.
As the corn is gathered in at Thorpe Tilney in Lincolnshire, the Pavilion Opera Company perform Donizetti's Don Pasquale.
Film editor MIKE DENBY Producer MIKE MURRAY

Ten films in which Magnus Magnusson explores the Viking world. 3: From the Fury of the Northmen
' The Danes live in the sea,' cried one victim of Viking attacks 1,000 years ago, and so it must have seemed as Danish Vikings poured along the coasts of Europe and up the great rivers to loot Paris and Hamburg, or into the Mediterranean in search of Rome, the greatest prize in Christendom.
Today's episode of Vikings! shows the other face of the Northmen too — the Danish townspeople who produced some of the glories of ancient art, and the powerful Danish kings, who moulded Denmark into a Viking nation. With BEN KINGSLEY DANIEL MASSEY
DENNIS EDWARDS and JOHN BENNETT
Music by Jack POINT
Series adviser PROFESSOR p. H. SAWYER Producer RAY SUTCLIFFE
Series producer DAVID COLLISON (Halfdan was Here, tomorrow at 8.25)

Guests in the courtyard tonight include top British comedian Lenny Henry and the zany musical group Harvey and the Wallbangers.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill

with subtitles, followed by Weather

Where the public sets the agenda.
The second of three spaces occupied by health workers. 2: Mission of Mersey
Music and movement in a doctor s waiting room? Local girls accosting you on the street to ask your views on health? Your doctor sending a social worker round to help sort out your bad housing? That's what happens in Liverpool at Princes Park Health Centre where doctors and nurses are tackling the root causes of bad health head-on. Made in co-operation with the PRINCES PARK HEALTH CENTRE
Director MICHAEL MACCORMACK Producer PETER LEE-WRIGHT
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Firle Place, East Sussex
Lying under the Sussex Downs is Firle Place, an elegant Georgian House... Here Arthur Negus and Ms guest David Battle enjoy the splendid furniture and porcelain. The Robert Adam display cabinets are complemented by the fine French tables and commodes.
Everywhere there is Chinese and French porcelain of exceptional quality, including a rare and valuable 18th-century Sevres dinner service.
Lighting ALAN HITCHCOCK Director DAVID MITCHELL
Producer ROBIN DRAKE. BBC Bristol * Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Adapted in three parts from the best-selling novel by JUDITH KRANTZ , starring
1: Ugly duckling Wilhelmina Winthrop, poor relation of a rich Boston family, uses her aunt's gift to travel to Paris instead of going to secretarial college.
Once in Paris, Wilhelmina, rechristened Billy, is transformed into an elegant and fashion-conscious beauty, destined to marry one of the world's wealthiest men.
Screenplay by James lee
Produced by LEONARD b. KAUFMAN Directed by ALAN J. LEVI and HY AVERBACK

BBC2 Invitation Pairs Crown Green Bowling Tournament Third Quarter-final
Bernard Marrow, Alan Shacklady v Ken Strutt , David Blackburn
Since defeating Arthur Murray and Dennis Mercer in the preliminary rounds, last year's Midland Bank Pairs holders-Ken Strutt and David Blackburn-are now strong favourites for this title. Their opponents, Bernard Marrow and Alan Shacklady from Lancashire, will be determined to prove the experts wrong.
Introduced by RICHARD DUCKEN -FIELD from the Waterloo Hotel, Blackpool
Commentator HARRY RIGBY
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

11.35 Reading Development: A Wealth of Words
The daily work of a class of young children can be used to develop and monitor reading skills. A visit to Simpson Combined School in Buckinghamshire.

12.0 Magnitude and Direction
Dora Duck had a slight problem - how to cross a flowing river to meet her true love on the far side. This, together with other problems, is happily resolved.