9.30 Casebook Scotland: Change in the Cromarty Firth
Industrialisation, boom and recession, a process which took 200 years on Clydeside, less than 20 on the Cromarty Firth. What have been the consequences for the landscape and the people?
(e)

9.52 Look and Read: Geordie Racer: Down in the Cellars
(For details see Tuesday 10.15am) (e)

10.15 Around Scotland: The Modern Farmyard
Modern machines and improved methods of animal rearing, have transformed Scottish farming.
BBC Scotland
(R) (e)

10.38 Information World: The Big Search
(e) (For details see Tuesday at 11.35am)

11.00 Storytime: A Lost Mitten
(For details see Wed 2.00pm) (e)

11.18 Wondermaths (12)
(For details see Tuesday at 11.35am) (e)

11.35 Let's See: Travelling Days: 2: On Wheels
(For details see Wed 10.38am) (e)

12.00 English File: Axes to Grind
A look at the work of two television playwrights David Leland and Alan Bleasdale, featuring extracts from Tales out of School and Boys from the Blackstuff.
'If I've got an axe to grind it's basically that, as a result of education, too many people suffer.' - David Leland
'If there is a political message, it is a message of equality and fair play and they mean to me what socialism should represent, so in that sense I am a socialist writer, but I'm not a manifesto writer.' - Alan Bleasdale
(e)

12.35pm Scene: Juvenile Court
'I thought it'd be like you see on telly - all the people with wigs on and everything.' Juvenile courts for young people under 17 are not like adult courts. It can be a puzzling and confusing experience. What exactly goes on in a juvenile court and what are the experiences of those who've been through it?
(R) (e)

1.05 France - Francais: Bertrand
(Shown on Wednesday at 9.43am) (e)

1.20 The Adventures of Spot
A See-Saw programme
(R)
and Bric-a-Brac
A See-Saw programme
(R)

1.38 English Time: Storytelling: Spells, Charms and Curses
Three different types of traditional tales: Willy and the Piece of Wood; The Paper Bag Princess; The Lambton Worm
(R) (e)

2.00 News, Weather
followed by You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs is very distressed when Jeni is not in the market as expected.
Colour song: Blue
Book: "My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes" by Eve Sutton
(e)

Introduced by David Icke and featuring this afternoon: International Squash Daily Mail Open Championship
JAHANGIR KHAN and ROSS NORMAN were expected to reach the final in Jersey.
Highlights of the semi-finals this afternoon.
Commentator STUART STOREY Ski-ing
The latest action from the World Cup.
Plus the sporting stories making the news.
Television presentation:
Squash CAMBELL FERGUSON Studio director VIVIEN KENT Producer GRAHAM FRY including at
3.00 News and Weather

with Paul Coia

The Nile
Brian Thompson begins a journey through the Sudan, Africa's largest and emptiest country, to Egypt, its richest. Written by BRIAN THOMPSON Director GERRY TROYNA (R)
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starring
En route to Washington important and confidential papers become separated from their secret service operative. Holmes and Watson are assigned the task of locating the documents before enemy agents; placing the fate of the Empire and the free world squarely on the great detective's shoulders again!
Screenplay by BERTRAM MILLHAUSER and LYNN RIGGS
Directed by ROY WILLIAM NEILL
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Emma Crewsden stars as a young photographic model, who dreams of herself in a beautiful and magical world at the bottom of the sea. Won the Palm D'or and top prize at the Antibes Film Festival. A MIKE VALENTINE production

by Andrew Davies
Baby Jools Bristow now has a baby of her own - she's still at home and Mum and Dad couldn't be nicer about it. They're too nice in fact, and soon Julie has had enough. So has baby Paul's father, Rob.
(R)

Bumper to Bumper
Traffic jams are as old as the century. London has been on the point of seizing up since the motor car arrived to challenge the horse. Michael Delahaye has been meeting a few of the millions of commuters from all over the south east who drive bumper to bumper into London every day and asking the experts - is the superj am an inevitability?
Producer TONY CHAPMAN Editor COLIN STANBRIDGE

Presented by Geoff Hamilton and Roy Lancaster
Once every ten years the Royal Boskoop Horticultural Society stages the Flora Nova. It's an extravaganza of what's new in horticulture - the newest and best varieties of herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees from all over the world, bred with the modern gardener in mind. Above all, it's a feast of colour, filmed last April and guaranteed to brighten any winter's evening with the promise of the joys of spring to come. Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON
Producer DENISw. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill

also starring Julie Kavner
Dan Castellaneta Joe Malone and Sam McMurray with special guest star Steve Martin in Meg's Lucky Night and Skin the Duck
Tonight Meg finds temporary everlasting love with Bobby on this her Lucky Night and Steve Martin , star of Roxanne, adds to his long list of credits as a unique performer by 'skinning the duck', 'booting the moon' and 'shaking the dog', as he teaches Tracey the very rudiments of dancing. Produced by RICHARD SAKAI

Presented by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael

continuing a season of films starring one of Britain's most accomplished screen actors, also starring Bjorn Andresen
Silvana Mangano
Venice, the turn of the century. Famous composer Gustav von Aschenbach arrives at the Lido dispirited and in desperate need of tranquillity. Among his fellow guests is an exquisitely beautiful boy who embodies the grace and purity von Aschenbach has sought all his life. One of the most beautiful films of its decade, featuring one of Bogarde's best performances.
Screenplay by LUCMNO VISCONTI and NICOLA BADALUCCO
Based on the novel Death in Venice by THOMAS MANN
Directed by LUCHINO VISCONTI
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