9.36 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
15: Decimals for Ever
How to cut the cake into thirds by cutting it into quarters.
followed by How Likely?
To start a game, is it fair to toss a coin? Why?
(R)

9.58 Thinkabout: Pigeon Racing
Sally and Brad visit a pigeon loft and discover how to look after and train racing pigeons. See the preparations for the big race - thousands of pigeons fill the sky. But there's only one winner!

10.15 Science Workshop: Tracks (B)

10.38 Exploring Science: Patterns of Growth

11.0 The History Trail: The Silver Buckle: 3
by Joan Aitken
Thoby's time as a servant on the plantation is coming to an end. But his mother suspects that cousin Sebastian is plotting to kill him - and that brother Richard is already dead. Certainly, Sebastian is being very secretive about a body in the forest.
(R)

11.22 Past Thirteen: Choosing for What?

Whether or not you know what you want to do when you reach school-leaving age, at options time you have to choose a school course which will be the foundation of your future. In this programme, young people show how they built the bridge between 13 or 14 and 16.

11.45 Politics and You: You and the Law
Police powers to stop and search, and the rights of animals used in experiments - through these two issues the first of this political education series examines how laws are made, and what you can do if you think a law should be changed. (R)

12.5 pm Buongiorno Italia!: 16: Rivediamo unpo'...
A course for beginners in Italian
(R)

12.30 Prima!: 6: Zweimal Bitte!
Eight short programmes about tourist German - all you need to survive.

Steve and Petra explore Hamburg: they take a boat trip and visit the infamous
Reeperbahn. Gerald learns the days of the week.
With Petra Ulich, James McKenna, Rosemary Frankau, Raymond Mason
(R)

12.45 Bellamy's New World: 5: Oklahoma OK!
Presented by David Bellamy
A series of eight films exploring America and its botanical history
(R) (Ceefax subtitles)

1.20 Appuntamento in Italia: Citta, e campagna
Una giornata a Siena; Un altro mondo; La grande citta.
(R)

1.38 Around Scotland: The Valley of the Scots: 1: The Scots of Dalriada
The Scots who settled in Argyll in the sixth century

2.0 You and Me
What can Cosmo and Dibs see in their new painting? Gary Wilmot tries to guess.
(R)

2.15 Music Time: Question and Answer

2.40 History File: Divided Ireland