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9.15 It's Your Choice: 4: Skills
The kind of life and social skills needed by young people when entering adult life. (Repeat)

9.38 Going to Work: Superstore
The rapidly expanding superstores and hypermarkets provide 'one-stop shopping'. They also offer jobs for young people.

10.0 You and Me: 'R' is for Robot
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Duncan learns to be a signwriter and Sam discovers how to make a robot. (Repeat)

10.15 Music Time: 4: The Sounds of the Voice
Making different vocal sounds and finding out that tone colour gives voices and instruments their own special sound.

10.38 British Social History: 2: The Poor Weaver
by John Prebble.
Glasgow - 1834: the city is filling with people all in search of work. (Repeat)

11.0 Zig Zag: Hungry Times: 1: The Trap
by Ian Taylor.
A new play in two episodes.

11.23 Talkabout: The Foolish Tortoise
A series for young children designed to encourage the development of oral language. (Repeat)

11.42 General Studies: Pictures: 3: Compelling Images
The programme follows the making of a television commercial from the initial brief to the finished film. (Repeat)

12.10 pm Wheels of Fire: 4: After the Flood
A series of ten films about development issues in India. (Repeat)

12.40 On the Rocks: 4: Granite
Ten programmes on the landscape around us.
How the intrusions were formed and how granite behaves at the surface. (Repeat)

1.5-1.30 Multi-Cultural Education: Language for Life
Ten case studies for teachers.
The case for mother-tongue teaching at primary and secondary levels. (Repeat)

1.38 Scotland this Century: 4: Two World Wars
Archive film along with memories of the Clydebank blitz. (Repeat)

2.1 Words and Pictures: The Hat
The hat that Frog gives Toad as a birthday present is too big but a practical solution to the problem is found. (Repeat)

2.18 Exploring Science: It's Only Water
Water is a common liquid with extraordinary properties. (Repeat)

2.40 The Music Arcade: 4: Vocal Sounds: 1
Led by 'Electric Phoenix' the children vocally imitate four different radio stations. (Repeat)

Contributors

Producer (Going to Work):
Peter M. Evans
Series producer (Going to Work):
Paul Mitchell
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Spiers
Guest (Music Time):
Brian Cant
Producer (Music Time):
Elizabeth Bennett
Writer (British Social History):
John Prebble
Producer (British Social History):
Ronald Smedley
Writer (Zig Zag):
Ian Taylor
Designer (Zig Zag):
George Kyriakides
Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Alfred:
Godfrey James
Sir Walter de Lacy:
Michael Goldie
Gerth:
David Bartlett
Edith:
Freda Dowie
Hugh de Lacy:
Mark Colleano
Hilda:
Daryl Back
Sergeant:
Paul Angelis
Clerk:
Richard Williams
Producer (Scotland this Century):
Robert Clark

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