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9.36 MI:10 Mathematical Investigations
3: Arithmetic Progressions
How to make a number sequence add up without really trying.
4: Shuffles
From riffling cards to ringing the changes - what patterns emerge? (R)

9.58 Thinkabout: What's Cooking?
Burnt sausages and half-cooked potatoes threaten to spoil everything when Frank and Sally give a barbecue.
(Shown on Monday at 11.22 am)

10.15 Science Workshop: Materials (2)
(Shown on Wednesday at 9.38 am)

10.38 Exploring Science: Electricity
(Shown on Tuesday at 2.40 pm)

11.0 The History Trail: Prisoner in the Tower
After the Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes was imprisoned in the Tower of London. What sort of place was the Tower in 1605 and what happened to the people who were imprisoned there? (R)

11.22 English 11-13. 2: Speech!
Saying and writing the right thing. (R)

11.45 Advanced Level Studies: English: Geoffrey Chaucer: The Dreaming Poet
by Ian Taylor.
When the Boughton-under-Blee Festival Players tackle Chaucer, their director finds that poetry and dreams become intertwined with reality.
with Derek Smith, Paul Blake, Maggie McCarthy, Suzy Aitchison, Timothy Kightley, Michael Waterman and Paul Williamson. (R)

12.5 pm Buongiorno Italia!: 4:Buono, buonissimo!
A course for beginners in Italian. (R)

12.30 Hold Down a Chord
The fourth programme of a beginners' course in folk guitar.
With John Pearse. (R)

12.45 Wheels of Fire: 4: After the Flood
Ten films about development issues in India. (R)

1.20 Des le debut: 4: Saying You're Sorry; Likes and Dislikes; Preference
Face-to-face French - a resource series to support the teaching of basic skills in French. (R)

1.38 Around Scotland: Glasgow: 3: Follow the Marathon (R)

2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Against the advice of both Dibs and Jeni Barnett, Cosmo sets up her own whistle stall. They sing a song about faces and make a Nigerian mask.
Book: Maisie Middleton (R)

2.15 Music Time: The Sounds of the Voice
Making different vocal sounds and finding out that tone colour gives voices and instruments their own special sound.
(Shown on Monday at 10.15 am)

2.40 History File: Roosevelt and the New Deal
Roosevelt's attempt to solve America's problems in the 30s.
(Shown on Monday at 10.38 am)

Contributors

Presenter (MI 10 Mathematical Investigations):
Hilary Clough
Animation (MI 10 Mathematical Investigations):
Stewart Hardy Films
Film editor (MI 10 Mathematical Investigations):
John Billingham
Producer (MI 10 Mathematical Investigations):
David Roseveare
Producer (The History Trail):
Nicholas Whines
Writer (Advanced Level Studies:
English): Ian Taylor
Producer (Advanced Level Studies:
English): Sue Weeks
[Actor]:
Derek Smith
[Actor]:
Paul Blake
[Actress]:
Maggie McCarthy
[Actress]:
Suzy Aitchison
[Actor]:
Timothy Kightley
[Actor]:
Michael Waterman
[Actor]:
Paul Williamson
Presenter (Hold Down a Chord):
John Pearse
Presenter (You and Me):
Jeni Barnett
Film animation (You and Me):
Richard Taylor
Producer (You and Me):
Richard Callanan
Cosmo:
Frances Kay
Dibs:
Francis Wright

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