9.0 Shakespeare in Perspective Selection
A Comedy of Errors: Comedian ROY HUDD illustrates some of the timeless gags and comic routines that sharpen this comedy of mistaken identities.
9.26 Maths Counts by JOHN TULLY
1: Getting the Point
Uncle Bert puts 18-year-old twins Steve and Wendy to the test: can they handle the mathematics of everyday life? With ROY KINNEAR. SARAH JAMES NICK ORCHARD and ELIZABETH PROUD
Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE
9.48 Mathscore One 1: Know Your Place
Cavemen, clowns and Octo the counting octopus all illustrate the importance of zero.
10.10 New series Look and Read Badger Girl
1: Sounds in the night
Debbie doesn't think much of the country at the start of her farm holiday with Kiran and Norman. But an unexpected visitor in the early morning changes all that.
Written by ANDREW DAVIES e With MARGO GUNN. ASHIEK
MADHAVNI, JUNE MARLOW,
JULIA MlLLBANK , NICK ORCHARD. KIERON O'SHEA , CHARLES COLLINGWOOD ,
KATIE HEBB.
Assistant producer ROGER FRY Producer SUSAN PATON
10.35 Geography Casebook: Britain
1: Inner City
Two programmes about the fluctuating fortunes of Glasgow - from Victorian boom to the present day.
Producer LEN BROWN
11.0 Watch. Captain Cook 1: All Aboard
11.17 Walrus
Patterns in Chatter by CATHY PELUCER
'Wear' rhymes with 'hair' and with 'there' and 'care', but which is the exception and what is the rule?
Producer MORTON SURGUY
11.40 Job Bank Local Builder
12.0 Year of the French
1: The Queen of the Beaujolais Another chance to see ten programmes from this series on French life and attitudes, seen through the experience of individual French men and women. Eighty-three-year-old
MARGUERITE CHABERT is president of the wine co-operative of Fleurie.
Producer JONATHAN GILI
12.30 pm Life Power
A series of programmes surveying biotechnology
Biology Becomes Big Business What exactly is biotechnology and how is it reshaping the industrial scene?
1.0 Maths Help
For adults studying maths to
'0' level, this series offers help with common difficulties. 1: Decimals
1.15 Science Topics
Ecology and Conservation Do more reeds mean more birds, or should the reeds be harvested? How can the fisherman catch bigger pike and how will this affect the otters? Ecology has lots of interlocking questions and, as yet, few answers.
Series producer PETER BRATT
1.38 Let's See
Take Care. 1: Accident!
A boy is knocked down as he crosses the road on his way to school. Why did it happen? Drama script by CATHERINE CZERKAWSKA
Producer MARIANNE BAIRD BBC Scotland
2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds Cosmo and Dibs help GARY wilmot mend a concertina and introduce the number two. Book: Charlie Strong by FRANCES KNOWLES and BRIAN THOMPSON
Producer RICHARD CALLANAN
2.15 British Social History Richard Arkwright and the First Factories
MAX MASON visits Cromford in Derbyshire to see where part of our new world began.
2.40 Junior Craft, Design and Technology
Teachers' Programmes
Up and Down the Hill: 1
Introducing Craft, Design and Technology to teachers and beginning a project on designing and making model vehicles.
Producer DAVID TAFT
(A companion programme for pupils, Downhill, Friday 11.0 am)