9.25 Treffpunkt: Osterreich: Eine Bergrettung
'Wir brauchen ganz dringend Hilfe!'
A dramatic air rescue is mounted when three young climbers get into difficulties.
(R) (e)

9.42 Textile Studies: The Right Stuff
(Shown on Tuesday at 12.20pm) (e)

10.15 Science Workshop: Fabrics, Part 2
(Shown yesterday at 10.15am) (e)

10.38 Investigating Science: Measurement
Astronomical Measurements
followed by Seeing Clearly?
(Shown on Tuesday at 10.38am) (e)

11.00 Thinkabout: Cold as Ice
(Shown on Monday at 10.40am) (e)

11.15 Near and Far: Now and Then: Life in the 17th Century: Prisoner in the Tower
(Shown on Monday at 1.38pm) (e)

11.35 Scene: Dreams and Nightmares
(For details see tomorrow at 12.35pm) (e)

12.05pm Science Topics: Waves
Sound is used as an example of waves and their general properties.
(R) (e)

12.25 General Studies: Protest Songs
Why is most popular music today in the form of love songs? How does this square with the views of propagandists down the ages who have felt that music was a powerful tool of persuasion?
(R) (e)

12.50 Micro File 'A': Spread the Word
Lesley Judd and Fred Harris introduce a compilation of items from the recent series Micro Live.
(R) (e)

1.20 Bertha: The Flying Bear
A See-Saw programme
by Eric Charles
(R)

1.38 Music Time: Call and Response
The children sing some work songs from Africa, Trinidad and Tobago.
with Felix Cobbson and Aklowa
(R) (e)

2.00 News, Weather
followed by Watch: Peter and the Wolf and String
James and Louise investigate the sounds made by vibrating strings. They also introduce Peter's theme from Peter and the Wolf.
(Shown on Tuesday at 11.00am) (e)

The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship
Will the pipeman of Bristol, DAVID BRYANT , have advanced to the second round? If so, then he could well be opposed by Irishman DAVID CORKHILL. The other match could be JOHN PRICE of Wales against either DAVID GOURLAY JR or MEL BIGGS. including at
3.00 News and Weather 3 50 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

Support the Carers!
Pat Hooper has been taking care of her severely disabled husband, Bill, for 26 years. She's one of the one-and-a-quarter million people - mainly women - caring for a relative at home. She saves the state a lot of money, but what support can she get? Margo MacDonald looks at the help on offer to carers. Directed by JEREMY ORLEBAR
Produced by TONY MATTHEWS (e)

Second Semi-final from Bombay, India
TONY GUBBA introduces highlights of the second semi-final and the line-up for the final to be played in Calcutta on Sunday.
Commentators in India
TONY LEWIS
RAY ILLINGWORTH
JACK BANNISTER
Television presentation ddi. India
Producer KEITH MACKENZIE

First of 20 programmes
As the bookshops stock up for Christmas the book review programme returns with the pick of the autumn lists.
This week Jill Neville is joined by Victoria Glendinning , Jack Klaff and Kenneth Williams to discuss Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman , Dan Jacobson 's novel Her Story, and Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes, a new collection of short stories by this week's guest author
Patricia Highsmith ; plus a look at the year's best science fiction and fantasy novels. Researcher CHRIS WILSON
Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS Producer ROLAND KEATING

'Most literature has been made by the disinherited or the exiled. Both states fix the attention upon experience and thus on the need to redeem it from oblivion, to hold it tight in the dark.'
JOHN BERGER
This week Michael Ignatieff and his guests,
Breyten Breytenbach , Africaaner writer, painter and poet,
Bruce Chatwin , traveller and writer and Ariel Dorfman ,
Latin American novelist ask: who needs roots anyway? Research CAREY NEWSON FLORENCE MINNIS
Studio director MARK HARRISON Producer AMANDA THEUNISSEN BBC Bristol

between Arthur Marshall Gillian Lynne
Robert Kilroy-Silk and Frank Muir Barbara Dickson Timothy West
Chairman Robert Robinson Devised by MARK GOODSON Directed by BRUCE MILLAR Producer PAUL CIANI

Presented by William Woollard
Traditional car design in Eastern Europe has lagged decades behind the west, but with the new Lada Samara, the Russians seem to have caught up. Sue Baker visits the Togliatti factory in Central Russia to drive one of the first right-hand drive versions of the new hatchback.
This week's car of the decade is the Austin Mini, a symbol of the 60s. Chris Goffey samples the cheaper end of the 4x4 market - how useful are they as transport for families in rural areas? Producer JON BENTLEY
Executive producer TOM ROSS BBC Pebble Mill

starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones
Nobody could ever accuse
Alas Smith and Jones of poor taste. It costs a fortune. With Tracie Bennett Debbi Blythe
Jane Booker , John Challis
Kim Clifford
Alexandra Dane Robin Driscoll Peter McCarthy Michael Redfern Walter Sparrow Claire Toeman
Written by CLIVE ANDERSON
MARTIN BOOTH, ROBIN DRISCOLL JOCKEYS OF NORFOLK
JOHN KILBY, JOHN MACHIN
RORY MCGRATH , GRIFF RHYS JONES JAMIE RIX , MEL SMITH
Original music by PETER BREWIS
Studio lighting GRAHAM RIMMINGTON Designers CHRIS RUGG, TIM GLEESON Production JOHN KILBY , JAMIE RIX
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A new series of films about our lives - now. Convictions
What makes people criminals? Will we ever learn to deal with violence and crime? Is punishment the answer? The Jales brothers are always in and out of jail.
John Jales and his brothers Brian and Philip are crooks. They've never made the big time, rarely made the papers - but they have long criminal records, and spend most of their lives locked in cells.
Now, as they await trial yet again, they talk of the criminal life. Mostly it's about violence - the violence of robbery and arrests, hatred and retribution, thuggery.
In this frank and disturbing film the Jales brothers give a rare insight into the world of the criminal, and into the minds of those for whom violence is the answer - whatever the question. Narrator
Michael Bryant
Singer CHERYL LUCAS
Photography BILL BROOMFIELD Film editor JIM DUFFY
Producer PAUL WATSON
Editor EDWARD MIRZOEFF
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Michael Berkeley introduces a major festival of Shostakovich's music beginning on Saturday.

The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship Tonight's match is the first of the quarter-finals. Will
STEPHEN REES , the holder, have bowled his way through his previous two opponents? The other successful bowler who will have to take him on could be WILLIE WOOD or possibly ALAN POOLE of crown green expertise.
Introduced by DAVID ICKE from the Guild Hall, Preston. Commentators
DAVID RHYS JONES
JIMMY DAVIDSON
Summarisers MAL HUGHES
DAVID MCGILL , JOHN BELL Television presentation
MIKE ADLEY , PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
Executive producer IAN EDWARDS BBC North West

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with reports from around Britain by Ian Smith
Chris Lowe and Peter Taylor

The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship Further coverage from tonight's first quarter-final