9.15 Childcare and Parenthood: Where I'm At
Getting in touch with your own early childhood is a good way of approaching the study of young children.
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9.38 Past Thirteen: Choices in the Third Year: 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.
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Cosmo and Dibs exchange presents with Indira Joshi and the numbers 2 and 4 are introduced.
Book: Happy Birthday Sam
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10.15 Music Time: Question and Answer
The West Indian song which tells the story of the greedy man who lost his dumplings. Presented by Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs
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10.38 History File: Divided Ireland
The first of two programmes exploring the partition of Ireland, and Ireland's different peoples and traditions.
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11.0 Zig Zag: Spaceship Earth: The Rocks
With 4,000 million passengers on board, the earth is a spaceship made of rock. Sheelagh Gilbey and Paul Coia dig into the mysterious world of rocks, from moving continents to volcanic toffee.
11.22 Thinkabout: Pigeon Racing
Sally and Brad visit a pigeon loft and discover how to look after and train racing pigeons. You can see the preparations for the big race - thousands of pigeons fill the sky. But there's only one winner!
11.40 General Studies: Brave New Births
Test-tube babies, surrogate mothers, experiments on human embryos: many people are now beginning to question these new scientific techniques. But for childless couples they offer fresh hope. Robert Winston, an infertility specialist, Kim Cotton and Lady Warnock explore some of the medical and ethical issues involved.
12.10 pm Recovery: 5: The Gamble
British companies that made it - their story of recovery from recession.
Presented by Brian Redhead
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12.35 The Rise and Fall of King Cotton: 1: Ladies in Carpets
These programmes examine some of the technical scientific economic and political threads in the story of one of the world's most important textiles
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1.5 Play Tennis: 1: Making Contact
Five programmes with a new step-by-step method for beginners
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1.38 Casebook Scotland: 6: The Built Environment
Intrepid space-traveller Muriel Gray boldly investigates the built environment around us.
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2.0 Words and Pictures: Oink and Pearl
Pearl is irritated by her little brother and yearns for an older sister. However, when older children are unkind it is Oink who gives his big sister the comfort she needs.
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2.18 Tutorial Topics: New School and Homework
What's it like to make the big change from primary to secondary school? What happens when homework gets left until the very last minute? Two short films performed by the pupils of Holyrood School in Glasgow.
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2.40 Religious Studies: Why Because?: 1: All Creatures Great and Small
People's attitudes to animals reflect their beliefs. This programme looks at the dog, cattle and the snake and finds out how people's perceptions are different depending on their faith backgrounds.
