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9.15 It's Your Choice: 3: Exams
About the consequences of taking (or not taking) exams. Subjects chosen at 13 or 14 often lead to some kind of public exam and these will often affect your choice of career. (Repeat)

9.38 Going to Work Health and Safety
A play for discussion by John Tully.
Alan Fiske lies unconscious in hospital - another victim of an accident at work.
But what happened? Who was to blame? (Repeat)

10.0 You and Me: 'F' is for Friends
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Sam paints some mugs for his friends while Duncan takes lessons in signwriting. (Repeat)

10.15 Music Time: 3: Higher and Lower
The children hear and make sounds with a higher, lower or same pitch. Kathryn Harries (mezzo-soprano) demonstrates how to develop good singing.

10.38 Twentieth-Century History: 2: Boom and Bust
The 1920s were years of fast-growing prosperity for the USA until the Wall Street Crash. (Repeat)

11.0 Zig Zag: Norman Rule
What was it like to be a Saxon peasant? How did William impose his laws on them? Why did he compile the Domesday Book? Bishop Odo answers some of these questions before vanishing back into the mists of time.

11.23 Talkabout: Who's Calling?
A series for young children designed to encourage the development of oral language.
Jumoke Debayo tells an African story about a little girl who believes she is being teased when she hears the echo of her own voice. (Repeat)

11.42 General Studies: Pictures (2): The View from the Armchair
The programme looks at the making of The Kenny Everett Television Show and asks what makes popular television popular? (Repeat)

12.10 pm Wheels of Fire: 'My dear friends, the land is very ugly'
The third of ten films about development issues in India.
How the Rajasthan Canal will transform 2.5 million acres of barren waste into rich farmland.

12.40 On the Rocks: 3: United Kingdoms
Ten programmes on the evolution of the landscape around us.
How continental drift' joined Scotland and N Ireland to England and S Ireland when the Iapetus Ocean closed
Book (same title), £2.95 from booksellers

1.5-1.30 Multi-Cultural Education: Your Community School
Ten case studies for teachers.
Developing contacts with parents and the local community.
Book (same title) £3.75 from booksellers

1.38 Scotland this Century: 3: Working for a Living
Archive film showing aspects of Scotland's industrial history from 1912 to 1938.

2.1 Words and Pictures: Mog and the Baby
Mog is a cat who loves babies, everyone agrees. But Mog is not so sure.

2.18 The History Trail: 2: The Godly Community
The Pilgrim Fathers establish their ideal Puritan community.

2.40 The Music Arcade: 3: Rhythm patterns
From Batman type cartoons, 'Pow!' and 'Splat!' to writing rhythms in musical notation.

Contributors

Series producer (It's Your Choice):
Paul Mitchell
Writer (Going to Work):
John Tully
Director (You and Me):
Mary Fourt
Producer (You and Me):
Roy Thompson
Mezzo-Soprano (Music Time):
Kathryn Harries
Presenter (Music Time):
Jonathan Cohen
Presenter (Music Time):
Helen Speirs
Director (Music Time):
David Scott Cowan
Producer (Music Time/The Music Arcade):
Elizabeth Bennett
Presenter (Zig Zag):
Sheelagh Gilbey
Producer (Zig Zag):
Tom Stanier
Bishop Odo:
Arthur Hewlett
Storyteller (Talkabout):
Jumoke Debayo
Presenter (Talkabout):
Jill Shelling
Producer (Talkabout/Words and Pictures):
Moyra Gambleton
Producer (General Studies):
David Taft
Narrator (Scotland this Century):
Alec Heggie
Producer (Scotland this Century):
Robert Clark
Presenter (Words and Pictures):
Vicky Ireland
Presenter (The History Trail):
Lorain Bertorelli
Producer (The History Trail):
Alan Ereira

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