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9.0 Shakespeare in Perspective: Twelfth Night
David Jones offers a personal view of a play he describes as 'full of fun and high spirits but with, a bitter-sweet quality'.

9.26 Twentieth-Century History: 1: Make Germany Pay
How the Treaty of Versailles affected Germany in the 1930s.

9.48 Mathscore Two: 1: Take it Away
Exactly how do you subtract 42 from 67? And what does one million of something look like?

10.10 Look and Read: Dark Towers: 2: The Man in the Picture
by Andrew Davies.
A reading series for 7 to 9-year-olds based on a ghost story in ten episodes.

10.35 Brazil: 1: Skyscrapers and Slums
Wealth and poverty in Sao Paulo - Brazil's biggest, richest and fastest-growing city.

11.0 Watch!: Robinson Crusoe - Settling In
The 'ghost' of Crusoe is summoned back to the studio, and tells how he built his stockade and caught his first goat.

11.17 Japan: The Crowded Islands: The City
The startling contrast between the facade of Tokyo and everyday life inside the Yagis' house - a Tokyo cockney family.

11.40 Religious and Moral Education: 1: Man-power
Five non-doctrinal programmes for 11-13s.
The intelligence and potential of the new-born child.

12.3 pm Whatever Happened to Britain?: 2: Voices in the Air
An eight-part analysis by John Eatwell of the history and current state of the British economy.
Book (same title) available from book-shops, £4.95 paperback, £9.95 hardback.

12.30 Other People's Lives: 2: Kayapo - Coming of Age
The second of ten films about the social values and organisations of five cultures.

12.55 Maths Help: 2: Percentages
A series for adults studying maths to O-level, offering help with common difficulties.
Book, Maths Help, Part 1 £3.93, available from booksellers

1.19 Science Topics: Darwin and Evolution
Evolution by natural selection, one of the greatest of all scientific theories, was put forward by Charles Darwin in 1859, How, has the theory stood the test of time?

1.40 Let's See: Houses: 2. Where Do You Live?
with Fiona Black, Jenny Baird, Sandy Morton, Sandra Robertson, Neil Stewart,
Douglas Crichton.
Garry looks at the difference between living in the town and living in the country both now and over 100 years ago.
BBC Scotland

2.0 You and Me: Ride a Cock Horse
A series for 4 and 5-year-olds.
Kim, Eloise, Vicky and Georgia enjoy their riding lesson with Jackie Story.

2.15 Near and Far: What is a Street?
The first of three programmes for 9-11-year-olds about the geography of streets.

2.40 Junior Craft, Design and Technology: Up and Down the Hill - Downhill
Craft, design and technology is about solving problems. In this programme we begin with the problem of going downhill.

Contributors

Presenter (Shakespeare in Perspective):
David Jones
Producer (Twentieth Century History):
Paul Mitchell
Writer (Look and Read):
Andrew Davies
Producer (Look and Read):
Sue Weeks
Producer (Brazil/Japan:
The Crowded Islands): Len Brown
Series producer (Watch!):
David Taft
Presenter (Whatever Happened to Britain?):
John Eatwell
Producer (Other People's Lives):
Peter Ramsden
Producer (Maths Help):
Robert Clamp
Series producer (Science Topics):
Peter Britt
Presenter (Let's See):
Garry Stewart
Producer (Let's See):
Marianne Baird
[Actress]:
Fiona Black
[Actress]:
Jenny Baird
[Actor]:
Sandy Morton
[Actress]:
Sandra Robertson
[Actor]:
Neil Stewart
[Actor]:
Douglas Crichton
Presenter (You and Me):
Jackie Story
Producer (You and Me):
Roy Thompson

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