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9.15 Encounter: France: 2: Town and Country
Five documentary films based on life in France for European studies and background to language courses.

9.33 Rendez-vous: France: Par Les rues, par les champs - Poitiers.
Au centre-ville; Au village; A la campagne
A language resource series.

9.52 Talkabout: Knock! Knock!
When a fierce goat shuts an old woman out of her own house, various animals offer to help.

10.12 Science Workshop: Fruit and Vegetables 'B'

10.34 Scene: I'm Libra - What Are You?

11.5 Maths-in-a-Box: 1: Strange Visitor
A mathematical adventure in ten episodes by Alex Glasgow.

11.30 Outlook: 1: Herod the Great
The archaeological background to the Gospels.
Throughout Israel the ruins of many great and ancient buildings can be seen. Many were built by one man-Herod the Great. What do we know about him?

11.55 Swim: 2: Novices
Andrew Harvey introduces ten programmes for swimmers and non-swimmers of all ages.

12.20 Illusions of Reality: 2: Men of the Hour
A series of five films about the cinema and public opinion in the 1930s.

12.45-1.0 Write Away
A practical guide to everyday writing with new and handy ways of remembering spelling.
Presented by Barry Took.
With Michael Gambon and Zena Walker.
Adults wanting help with reading, writing or spelling can ring [number removed]or send their name and address to [address removed]. Scotland: Write Away, [address removed]. Tel [number removed]; Belfast: Write Away, [address removed] Tel [number removed].

1.10 The Open University
Physics Demonstrations for Schools: 5: The Origin of X-ray
Spectra Moseley's discovery that X-rays carried information about the inner regions of an atom's cloud of electrons.
Compiled from BBC/OU productions

1.38 Around Scotland: Burgh Life in 1623: 2: Breaking the Law
A three-part unit on a merchant's family in 17th-century Scotland.
Presented by Alex Norton.
BBC Scotland

2.0 You and Me: Baa Baa Black Sheep
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Catriona, Sarah and Toby help David Ashton look for some black sheep and then find a weaver called Donald.

2.15 Music Time: 2: Long Sounds, Short Sounds
Jonathan Cohen and the children time sounds recorded on a building site.

2.40 Walrus: After Four: 1
by Cathy Pelucer.
Those kids from the remedial class ought not to have been in the school television studio anyway....

Contributors

Producer (Rendez-vous:
France): John Prescott Thomas
Presenter (Talkabout):
Jill Shilling
Presenter (Science Workshop):
David Hargreaves
Presenter (Science Workshop):
Lillian Evans
Presenter (Science Workshop):
Malcolm McFee
Writer (Maths-in-a-Box):
Alex Glasgow
Producer (Outlook):
R. Dilwyn Jones
Presenter (Swim):
Andrew Harvey
Producer (Illusions of Reality):
Howard Smith
Presenter (Write Away):
Barry Took
Sketches written by (Write Away):
Andy Hamilton
Sketches written by (Write Away):
Barry Pilton
[Actor]:
Michael Gambon
[Actress]:
Zena Walker
Presenter (Around Scotland):
Alex Norton
Producer (Around Scotland):
Tom Cotter
Presenter (You and Me):
David Ashton
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Writer (Walrus):
Cathy Pelucer
Producer (Walrus):
Morton Surguy

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