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9.15 Child Care and Parenthood: 5: The Child and Other People
For the young child, the prospect of starting school, going to the dentist, or to the hospital can be frightening.

9.38 Politics and You: 5: You and the Union
The popular image of trade unions is often a negative one, but YTS trainees and a group of fifth formers discover how unions can help them and how they themselves can become active members. The union is also helping Middlesbrough hospital workers fight the issue of privatisation.

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and-5-year-olds
Cosmo has a violent tantrum; Dibs and Indira Joshi try to calm her. Maths on the farm: matching eggs to the birds that laid them.
Book: "Brown Bear What Do You See?" by Eric Carle and Bill Martin Jr.

10.15 Music Time: 5: The Weavers
Some traditional African weaving, and a song sung by the weavers. The children print some African designs on cloth as they prepare their costumes for the musical Anansi and the Sky God. Grouping beats in twos, threes and fours.
Presenters Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs with children from SS Peter and Paul Primary School.

10.38 Twentieth-Century History: One Man's Revolution: Mao Tse Tung
Mao's 42-year leadership of the Chinese Communist Party changed the face of China.

11.0 Zig Zag: Energy: Turn to the Wind
The wind is a powerhouse of energy. How has it been used in the past? How will it be used in the future? (Ceefax Subtitles)

11.23 Alles klar: Having to Do Things; Likes and Dislikes; Comparing and Preferring
Basic skills in German.

11.42 A-level Studies: English: Jane Austen: Letters to Alice, On First Reading Jane Austen by Fay Weldon
Through letters to her niece, Fay Weldon illuminates the life and work of one of the best known women novelists of the past.
With Anna Cropper, Cassie Stuart, Sarah Finch, Vicky Ireland, Michael Lumsden, Nancy Adams and Peter Whitaker

12.4 Mindstretchers: Solutions: Tight Living
Feroza Syal explains her bedsitter design to Antony Daniels. Is it comfortable? Does it work?

12.10 Under the Weather: 4: High and Dry
An introduction to the workings of the world weather systems.

12.35 Pages from Ceefax

1.30 Trumpton: The Window Cleaner
A See-Saw programme

1.45 Pages from Ceefax

2.0 Words and Pictures: Dizzy Duncan
Why Duncan ties a knot in his handkerchief, puts his cap on back to front, pulls down his socks and undoes his shoe laces remains a mystery until the end of the story Dizzy Duncan.

2.18 Office Studies: 5: Offices Today and Tomorrow
The role of office workers in the production and distribution of jeans; word processors and their uses; and computer booking in a major airline.
BBC Scotland

2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the Transport Planner
All aboard! How can a computer help solve the problems of conveying by sea a million or so people between the Greek mainland and the islands?

Contributors

Producer (Child Care and Parenthood):
John Chapple
Producer (Politics and You):
Andy Walker
Presenter (You and Me):
Indira Joshi
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Writer (A-Level Studies:
English): Fay Weldon
Producer (A-Level Studies:
English): Sue Weeks
[Actress]:
Anna Cropper
[Actress]:
Cassie Stuart
[Actress]:
Sarah Finch
[Actress]:
Vicky Ireland
[Actor]:
Michael Lumsden
[Actress]:
Nancy Adams
[Actor]:
Peter Whitaker
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Feroza Syal
Presenter (Mindstretchers):
Antony Daniels
Series Producer (Mindstretchers):
Edward Hayward
Puppets/Scripts/Production (Trumpton):
Gordon Murray
Presenter (Words and Pictures):
Vicky Ireland
Producer (Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton
Producer (Office Studies):
Robert Clark
Producer (Computer Club):
Robin Gwyn

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