9.15 Childcare and Parenthood: The Child and the Family
The emergence of a toddler into a child can be a tricky time.
Five-year-old twins help their young sister, but it's not so easy if your elder brother is mentally handicapped.
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9.38 Past Thirteen: Choices in the Third Year: Can Girls Choose Like Boys
'Boys are brighter than girls.' 'Men's jobs pay more than women's.' These and other concepts are explored in today's programme by means of drama and documentary. The importance of science subjects for boys and girls is stressed, and an example is given of the most exciting option of all - to challenge stereotyping.

10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Jeni Barnett finds it hard to comfort Cosmo when Dibs goes missing. They are introduced to the number 10 and read the book Winklet Goes to School.
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10.15 Music Time: The Sleeping Beauty: 2
More orchestral music with part of the story illustrated by puppets. Presented by Jonathan Cohen, Helen Speirs
(R)

10.38 History File: British Social History: Railways
A device for making the world smaller. Keith Chegwin visits the Liverpool to Manchester line.
(R)

11.0 Zig Zag: The Detectives
Max Mason and Shaw Taylor find out how the modern detective is trained.
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11.22 Thinkabout: Moving Along
Sally finds there's more than one way of moving a heavy load, and Frank turns detective when a mystery visitor leaves footprints in the yard.
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11.40 General Studies: The Investigators
The drugs traffic between Pakistan and London was revealed in Panorama's 'The Scout Who Smuggled Heroin'. This programme looks behind the scenes at some of the techniques and hazards of the investigations.

12.5 pm Pages from Ceefax

12.35 The Rise and Fall of King Cotton: 5: War and Famine
Some of the technical, scientific, economic and political threads in the story.
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1.5 Play Tennis: 4: At Your Service
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1.38 Casebook Scotland: 9: Who Do You Think You Are?
A play by Alan Spence about the teenage search for identity and self-expression.
(R)

2.0 Words and Pictures: Trog Makes a Trap
The Trog family are spectacularly unsuccessful in their efforts to hunt for food. The Quickerwits teach Trog how to make a trap, but what he traps proves to be a surprise.
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2.18 Tutorial Topics: Owning Up: Parts 1 and 2
Tina loses a valuable camera she has borrowed from her sister. It's her classmate, Debbie, who finds it - and steals it. Neither of them owns up and from then on things get very complicated for both.
(R)

2.40 Religious Studies: Why Because?: 4: What's for Dinner?
Food is a key to the way beliefs affect everyday life. This programme looks at food in different faiths and the importance of the harvest, the use of bread and wine, and the concept of sharing.