9.38 Economics: A Question of Choice: 5: The Right Price?
Is there such a thing as a right price for anything? How important are the workings of the market-place to a manufacturer launching a new computer and a farmer selling his grain?
10.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Cosmo and Dibs get lost at the funfair. Maths at the seaside: shallow and deep. Story: Meeting Grandad by Mary Dickinson and Yasmin Sheikh
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10.15 Music Time: Shadow Puppets
The children make shadow puppets for a story set in Java. A look at the traditional Javanese shadow puppets.
With children from Henry Fawcett Junior School
10.38 History File: British Social History: Nine Days in May
by Michael Tavistock
'The Government's out to smash us all... it's gonna be tough but it's what we've got to do.'
'I can see what you can't. It's a strike against Parliament and the constitution. It's revolution you're aiming at.' The 1926 General Strike.
With Lloyd McGuire, Caroline John, Denis Holmes, Chris Sullivan, Roger Hume, John Rowe and Colin Jeavons
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11.0 Zig Zag: The Greeks - the Persian Wars
History was invented by the Greeks and the first history book was about the Persian Wars. Sheelagh Gilbey visits the sites of Marathon and Thermopylae and Russell Enoch as Herodotus tells the story of the Greek resistance.
11.22 Thinkabout: Water
You can drink it, freeze it, wash in it, float or sink in it and on a hot day everybody needs it for something. So what happens when the water supply is cut off?
11.40 A-level Studies: History: Birmingham and Manchester
The Industrial Revolution permanently altered the face of Britain, and the way of life of many of its inhabitants. How did contemporary observers view the changes that were happening? How far can we generalise about the effects of industrialisation on particular towns? Do the similarities of the experience outweigh the differences?
Presented by Clive Behagg
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12.2 pm Mindstretchers: Tight Living: Solutions
Feroza Syal explains her bed-sitter design to Anthony Daniels. Is it comfortable? Does it work?
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12.7 Pages from Ceefax
2.0 Words and Pictures: Strange Bumps
Owl is scared by bumps under the bedclothes. Charlie is scared by an owl, and the children make shadow-shapes.
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2.18 One World: Made in Britain
Among Britain's exports to Jamaica is agricultural machinery. But unless farmers can afford to buy, jobs in Britain are at risk.
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2.40 Computer Club: The Computer and the Transport Planner
All aboard! How can a computer help solve the problems of conveying by sea the million or so people between the Greek mainland and the islands in the best possible way?
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