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9.38 Discovering Science: Air as a Gas
Introduced by Michael Underwood
[Repeat]

10.0 Merry-go-Round: Getting the Message
Introduced by Richard Carpenter

10.25-10.45 Science Extra: Biology: Living in Rivers

[Repeat]

11.0-11.20 British Social History: The age of steam: 2: The mill children
The suffering of the factory children in the early 19th century and the long struggle to improve their conditions.
Introduced by Robin Ray
[Repeat]

11.30-11.55 New Horizons: Hero: 4: Anti-Heroes
Not all heroes are idealised supermen; the comic little man, the disillusioned spy, the 'angry young man' are unglamorous and anti-establishment. What is the significance of the anti-hero cult?
Introduced by George Melly
See page 12

12.5 Engineering: Craft and Science: Unit 1: Engineering Materials: 2: What is a metal?
Introduced by D. R. C. Holmes, C Eng, Ami Prod E

Contributors

Presenter (Discovering Science):
Michael Underwood
Presenter (Merry-go-Round):
Richard Carpenter
Narrator (Science Extra):
Peter Welch
Presenter (British Social History):
Robin Ray
Presenter (New Horizons):
George Melly
Presenter (Engineering:
Craft and Science): D. R. C. Holmes

2.5 Science All Around: Sound
Blow, Bow, or Bang: when things vibrate they make sounds. But what has length to do with it? And why sounding boxes?
Introduced by Fergus O'Kelly
with Martha Kyemba
[Repeat]

2.30 Going to Work: Chain Store
A look behind the scenes of a chain store organisation
Introduced by Peter West
[Repeat]

2.55 People of Many Lands: Mahe: Seychelles
About some of the 90 islands of this isolated British Crown Colony
Commentary by Tony Beamish

3.20 Twentieth-Century Focus: The Scientist's Responsibility: 2: The Scientist and the Environment
'There's no conspiracy to make some peculiar world of the future, conceived by a little bevy of scientists, nothing like that, it's just a whole lot of piecemeal decisions. The result is our civilisation is out of control' - Nigel Calder
Introduced by Derek Cooper

Contributors

Presenter (Science All Around):
Fergus O'Kelly
Guest (Science All Around):
Martha Kyemba
Presenter (Going to Work):
Peter West
Narrator (People of Many Lands):
Tony Beamish
Presenter (Twentieth-Century Focus):
Derek Cooper

John Grant tells Littlenose
Remember Littlenose? He's the boy with a nose no bigger than a berry, who lived thousands of years ago when people lived in caves. John Grant comes back to Jackanory with five new stories about the mischievous Littlenose; his family; the Straightnoses; and, of course, Two-Eyes, his friendly pet mammoth.

Contributors

Storyteller:
John Grant

by Nina Bawden
Dramatised in four parts by Rosemary Anne Sisson

Fred and Algy have broken into Gribble's room at Lilac Lodge, unaware that they are about to be caught...

Contributors

Author:
Nina Bawden
Dramatised by:
Rosemary Anne Sisson
Script Editor:
Victor Pemberton
Designer:
Barrie Dobbins
Producer:
John McRae
Director:
Barry Letts
Mr Stanley:
Andrew Staines
Fred:
Martin Ratcliffe
Algy:
John Gugolka
Mr Jennings:
Jeffrey Segal
Clio:
Juliet Marshall
Rosie:
Helen Worth
Old Puffer:
Erik Chitty
Police Constable:
Peter Lund
Inspector:
David King
Gran:
Barbara Leake
Uncle William:
Joby Blanshard
Sid:
Martin Skinner
Mr Gribble:
Frank Mills
Mrs McAlpine:
Rhoda Lewis
Mrs Beecham:
Sheila Fay
Mr Puttock:
John Baskcomb

by Leslie Duxbury
Starring James Ellis, John Slater, Derek Waring
with Paul Angelis, Douglas Fielding and Bernard Holley

What sort of mother abandons her 2-month-old baby in a telephone kiosk?
(for cast list see Tuesday, page 35)

Contributors

Writer:
Leslie Duxbury
Producer:
Bernard Holley
Director:
Ron Craddock
PC Newcombe:
Bernard Holley
PC Bannerman:
Paul Angelis
Sgt Lynch:
James Ellis
Det-Insp Goss:
Derek Waring
Det-Sgt Stone:
John Slater
PC Quilley:
Douglas Fielding

Song, music, comedy and the best from the world of entertainment starring Andy Williams and this week's guests Petula Clark, Don Ho and Blood, Sweat and Tears.
A new kind of pop: page 11

Contributors

Singer/presenter:
Andy Williams
Singer:
Petula Clark
Singer:
Don Ho
Band:
Blood, Sweat and Tears
Producer:
Allan Blye
Producer:
Chris Beard

People, places and problems that matter most to Britain and the world introduced by Robin Day with Panorama reporters Michael Charlton, Richard Kershaw, Robert MacNeil, Julian Pettifer

Contributors

Presenter:
Robin Day
Reporter:
Michael Charlton
Reporter:
Richard Kershaw
Reporter:
Robert MacNeil
Reporter:
Julian Pettifer
Editor:
Brian Wenham

by David Cullen
Starring Jon Finch, Sarah Brackett

Mary, visiting a village where she stayed as a child, finds that the woman who used to look after her, Hannah Webley, is now regarded as a witch by the superstitious villagers and Mary herself is soon caught up in the ensuing witch hunt

Contributors

Writer:
David Cullen
Story by:
Patricia Hooker
Series created by:
Tony Williamson
Designer:
Ian Rawnsley
Script Editor:
David Rolfe
Producer:
Patrick Alexander
Director:
Henri Safran
Sammy:
Robert Langley
Sammy's friend:
Alexander Ruddick
Hannah Webley:
Hilary Mason
Mary:
Sarah Brackett
Harry Carter:
Michael Beint
Villager:
Alan Dudley
Simon:
Jon Finch
Control:
Katie Fitzroy
John Rossiter:
Patrick Bedford
PC Brookfield:
Howard Goorney
Jerry Randall:
Freddie Earlle
Chief of Control:
Edward Brayshaw

by Hugh Leonard
starring Milo O'Shea as Bunjy Kennefick
with Anna Manahan as Mrs Kennefick, Yootha Joyce as Miss Argyll, Helen Fraser as Angela
and David Kelly as Cousin Enda

Bunjy buys his Mammy a plaster saint for a birthday present but her reaction to it is as unpredictable as ever
Also appearing: Michael Stainton, Jonathan Marshall

Contributors

Writer:
Hugh Leonard
Music composed and conducted by:
Max Harris
Designer:
Richard Hunt
Producer:
James Gilbert
Bunjy Kennefick:
Milo O'Shea
Mrs Kennefick:
Anna Manahan
Miss Argyll:
Yootha Joyce
Angela:
Helen Fraser
Cousin Enda:
David Kelly
[Actor]:
Michael Stainton
[Actor]:
Jonathan Marshall

Presented all this week by James Burke with on-the-spot reports by Linda Blandford,
Bernard Falk, David Lomax, Fyfe Robertson and Denis Tuohy and special contributions from Keith Kyle, Robert McKenzie and Olivier Todd including a round-up of the day's news in pictures

Contributors

Presenter:
James Burke
Reporter:
Linda Blandford
Reporter:
Bernard Falk
Reporter:
David Lomax
Reporter:
Fyfe Robertson
Reporter:
Denis Tuohy
Reporter:
Keith Kyle
Reporter:
Robert McKenzie
Reporter:
Olivier Todd
Producer of the week:
David Harrison
Editor:
Anthony Smith

The export drive: spotlight on the men, the methods, the markets that are earning Britain's living abroad
Just 10 years ago British motorcycles led the pack on the tracks and roads of the world. Now they're fighting to stay in the running. Why the change? - the rising sun of Japanese commercialism? or over-confidence about the key American market? or the throttling grip of the credit squeeze at home?

Contributors

Reporter:
Jeffrey Preece
Production:
Christopher Riley
Production:
Marcus Davidson

A series of management problems

Your Bank Manager asks you to reduce your overdraft. How do you do it?
Introduced by Robert Robinson
With John Brodrick, W. E. Evans, Richard O'Brien

Closedown

Contributors

Presenter:
Robert Robinson
Speaker:
John Brodrick
Speaker:
W. E. Evans
Speaker:
Richard O'Brien
Director:
William Woollard
Producer:
Paul Ellis
Michael Downing:
John Witty

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