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9.20 Let's Go - Series 1: 2: Let's Go to the Post Office
Ten programmes for moderately handicapped young adults, presented by Brian Rix
(R)

9.35 Encounter: France: Town and Country - Poitiers
A postman leads us round the town; wine and cheese; village life in the country.
(R)

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

10.15 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.
(R)

10.38 Geography Casebook: Britain: 1: Inner City (1)
The first of two programmes about the fluctuating fortunes of Glasgow - from Victorian boom to the present.
(R)

11.0 Watch: Fruit Harvest
Louise visits a farm to see fruit growing and harvesting. James goes to Covent Garden Market in London. In the dramatised story Crab Apples Dominic finds his way into a garden. Presented by Louise Hall-Taylor and James Earl Adair
(R)
(For full details see tomorrow 2.0pm)

11.17 Geography 11-14: What Ice Did to the Land
How the Ice Age left its mark.
(R)

11.39 Science Topics: Darwin and Evolution
Observations on living things are explained by evolution according to natural selection.
(R)

12.0 Une annee chez les Francais: 1: La reine du Beaujolais
New French-language versions of the Year of the French series for advanced-level students.
Harvest-time in Fleurie, one of the best wine-producing villages in Beaujolais, is seen through the eyes of 83-year-old Marguerite Chabert.
(R)

12.30 Deutsch Direkt!: 2: Programm Zwei
Twenty programmes for beginners in German
How to get petrol and something to eat at a motorway service station. Then on to Bremen and a visit to a children's puppet theatre to see Aladin und die Wunderlampe - in German, of course.
Presented by Hanni Vanhaiden
(Complementary radio programme Sunday Radio 4 VHF at 5.30 pm, repeated next Saturday at 4. 30pm) Book £5.95, three cassettes £3.75 each, and Notes for Teachers, from booksellers or BBC Publications

12.55 Switch on to English:1: 2: Using Names
Key aspects of spoken and written English are taught using extracts from popular television series as reinforcement. Presented by Floella Benjamin
(R)

1.20 Encounter Spain: People and Produce - Two Provinces
Life in Plasencia and Logrono: streets, markets, tobacco - and the wine of the Rioja.
(R)

1.38 Let's See: Where We Live: Living Around Here
Garry visits Kelso in the Borders and discovers the large number and variety of local services there that the townspeople both expect and need.
Presented by Garry Stewart
(R)

2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Indira Joshi helps Cosmo and Dibs make a magic potion. Introducing the number 3. Book: Dhanji's Spaceship
(R)

2.15 Near and Far: Meeting Points
We live among a network of streets with our town or city centre at its heart.
(R)

2.40 Exploring Science: It's Only Water
Water is the most common and ordinary liquid on earth, yet it's the most extraordinary in its properties.
(R)

Contributors

Presenter (Let's Go):
Brian Rix
Producer (Mathscore Two):
David Roseveare
Writer (Look and Read):
Andrew Davies
Producer (Look and Read):
Sue Weeks
Producer (Geography Casebook:
Britain): Len Brown
Presenter (Watch):
Louise Hall-Taylor
Presenter (Watch):
James Earl Adair
Series producer (Science Topics):
Peter Bratt
Subject (Une annee chez les Francais):
Marguerite Chabert
Producer of French adaptation (Une annee chez les Francais):
Caroline Godley
Presenter (Deutsch Direkt!):
Hanni Vanhaiden
Director (Deutsch Direkt!):
Marion Allinson
Producer (Deutsch Direkt!):
Maddalena Fagandini
Presenter (Switch on to English):
Floella Benjamin
Presenter (Let's See):
Garry Stewart
Producer (Let's See):
Marianne Baird
Presenter (You and Me):
Indira Joshi
Producer (Near and Far):
Robin Gwyn

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