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9.35 Encounter: Austria: Mountain Rescue
What would happen if you had a climbing accident?
If you were lucky, you'd be rescued by helicopter and end up safe in hospital.
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9.52 Look, Look and Look Again: Finding the View
The first of a series to support art education for 9-to 12-year-olds.
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10.15 Look and Read: Badger Girl: Sounds in the Night
Debbie doesn't think much of the country at the start of her farm holiday with Kiran and Norman. But an unexpected visitor in the early morning changes all that.
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10.38 Investigating Science: Strange People in White Coats...?
How do real scientists differ from their popular image, gained from the world of science fiction? What are scientists and how do they go about their work?
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11.0 Watch: Visual Arts: Artists at Work
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11.17 Now and Then: The Age of Concrete
Since the war, concrete has radically changed the landscape of Great Britain.
Last year alone, 43.6 million cubic metres of concrete were poured into roads, bridges, tunnels and office blocks. That's the equivalent of building a Thames Barrier every day.
In today's programme, the first of a new series, schools are invited to submit ideas for a short film they would like to make about the history of their neighbourhood and how it has changed in recent years.
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11.40 Wondermaths: Programme 1
Deep in space, Zak, Stella and their robot Hudson, board the spaceship Investigator. They are faced with many decisions and discover they have even more choices than they thought!
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11.57 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
1: Pascal's Triangle: 1
Routes on a square grid
2: Gears
Bicycles, cars and the great Westminster clock.
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12.18 pm Maths Counts: 1: Getting the Point
by John Tully
Uncle Bert puts 18-year-old twins Steve and Wendy to the test: can they handle the mathematics of everyday life?
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12.40 Honourable Members: 1: White, Male and Middle Class
A series of five programmes examining the role of Members of Parliament.
How to get into Parliament - and who does. Becoming a candidate and getting elected. A wide range of MPs and former MPs tell the story.
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1.5 Pages from Ceefax

1.38 Walrus - Guess What?: Reading Between the Lines
Four young people join Michael Rosen and start to read a book. They work out what it seems to be about and think about what might be coming next.
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2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Who is the strange lady who visits Dibs's stall? Maths on the farm: 'Counting sheep and lambs'. Story: "Lend Me Your Wings" by John Agard. Illustrations by Catherine Brighton.
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Contributors

Producer (Encounter:
Austria): Susan Paton
Producer (Look, Look and Look Again):
Geoff Wilson
Narrator (Investigating Science):
Mike Rodden
Director (Investigating Science):
Michael Mosley
Series Producer (Investigating Science):
Robin Gwyn
Producer (Now and Then):
Nicholas Whines
Writer (Wondermaths):
Colin Davis
Consultant (Wondermaths):
John Sharpe
Series Producer (Wondermaths):
David Scott Cowan
Zak:
Christopher Lillicrap
Stella:
Sita Ramamurthy
Voice of Hudson:
Jonathan Izard
Producer (MI 10):
David Roseveare
Writer (Maths Counts):
John Tully
Consultant (Honourable Members):
Malcolm Davies
Film Editor (Honourable Members):
Terry Williams
Producer (Honourable Members):
Tony Roberts
Presenter (Walrus):
Michael Rosen
Producer (Walrus):
Morton Surguy
Presenter (You and Me):
Indira Joshi

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