6.50 Animal Physiology: Natural Navigators
7.15 Maths: Finding One's Bearings
7.40 Handicapped in the Community
8.05 Instruments Under Wraps
8.30 Physics of White Dwarf Stars
8.55 Images: Albert Crewe 's Atom
9.20 Social Science: Competing Theories?
9.45 The Melbury Road Set
10.10 Mechanical Design in Lifts
10.35 Maths: Modelling Pollution
11.00 Open Forum
11.25 Science Foundation Course
11.50 Maths Methods: Fourier Analysis
12.15 Biology: Form and Function
12.40 Colliding Continents

Programmes with sign language and subtitles. Today: Kilroy -
Debt Robert Kilroy-Silk discusses problems of debt with a studio audience. (e)

When Birmingham musician Eddie Matthews settled down to live in Wales he totally immersed himself in the culture and traditions of the area, learning Welsh and becoming involved in the farming community. He tells of the double threat to rural Wales, the growing anglicisation of Welsh culture and the changes wrought by the decline in sheep farming.
Anne Brown treads the paths and walkways of Clydebank where a new community scheme for residents of the huge housing estates in the area is under way to encourage responsible access to the countryside on their doorstep.
Plus at 1.55 the weather for the countryside with Bill Giles
Producer PHILLIP FRANKLIN Editor MICHAEL FITZGERALD BBC Pebble Mill

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The Story of Leonard Bernstein 's 'Candide'
The chequered history of the work from its glamorous but doomed beginning as a Broadway musical to a celebrated opera production. Based on Voltaire's biting satire on human nature, it has been re-arranged, rewritten and re-staged. Here, a host of stars evoke the turbulent history of this work that has become a cult. Narrated by Andrew Sachs
Written and directed by PETER ADAM BBC Scotland
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Beyond Timbuktu with Bruce Pearson
When our migrant birds leave in the autumn we take it for granted they will return the following spring. Bruce Pearson , an award-winning wildlife artist, travels to the flood plain of the river Niger beyond Timbuktu in Mali where many hundreds of millions of birds from western Europe through to Siberia spend their winter. Photography
MIKE POTTS. BRIAN MCDlARMANT Film editor CHRIS ORRELL
Associate producer JOSTEWART-SMITH Producer DAVID COBHAM
Series editor ANDREW NEAL
A MPC TELEVISION production for BBCtv
BBC Bristol

Africa Meets the Blues
A programme presenting the work of two guitarists,
American bluesman John Lee Hooker and Malian musician Ali Farka Toure. - They come from two different cultures, thousands of miles apart, but musically they share a common heritage.
Film editor LYNDA FEATHERSTONE Researcher FRANCIS HANLY Producer BOB PORTWAY
Series editors NIGEL FINCH ANTHONY WALL

A new documentary in the award-winning series filmed over two years inside the secretive world of Customs and Excise.
Cutter
Tonight's film joins the crew of the Customs' cutter Seeker out in the western approaches, lying in wait for a target ship loaded with cannabis. Finally, the target is sighted and, as gales become a force nine storm, the target is tracked to a remote cove on the Welsh coast....
Photography PATRICK O'SHEA
Film editor ANDREW WILLSMORE
Assistant producers ROGER COURTIOUR PETER SALMON
Producer PAUL HAMANN
* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Continuing a season of outstanding films from key directors of the 70s. 13 December 1941: wildly off-course but anxious to strike a blow at America,
Japanese submarine commander Mitamura surfaces his craft off the California coast and sets sail for Hollywood ... Spielberg described his frenetic comedy as 'stupidly outrageous' and it is certainly his most relentlessly physical work.
Screenplay by ROBERT ZEMECKIS and BOB GALE
Produced by BUZZ FEITSHANS Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG
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The Portuguese Grand Prix Ferrari at last seem to be offering a challenge to the dominance of McLaren.
(Spanish Grand Prix, Sunday 2 October)

or The President of the United States goes scratch video In America anyone can become someone, and no-one provides a better example of this than Ronald Reagan - from B-movie actor on a white horse to incumbent of the White House. Through a unique blend of clips from films, TV shows and presidential appearances the story of this modern phenomenon is told.
Directed by STUART SAMUELS (An ATI VIDEO production)

Live from North Carolina
Charles Wheeler brings you the first of this year's presidential debates when George Bush and Michael Dukakis explain to the American people their views and opinions.