9.15 Mathematics in Action: Model Rocket
Introduced by Professor John Crank

9.38 Maths today: Year 2: Making it Fit
Introduced by Stewart Gartside

10.0 Out of the Past: The Case of Jonathan Strong

10.25-10.40 Words and Pictures: (A) Pug's Favourite Things
by Glynn Christian

11.0 Watch!: A Castle: 2
Introduced by Rosanne Harvey

11.18 Going to Work: Gas Industry: Jobs

11.40 Making Music: The Story of Lieutenant Cockatoo
Introduced by John Langstaff
with children from Minet Junior School, Hayes, Middlesex

Welsh quiz

Pippin and Tog meet the hens.

Introduced by James Lloyd

A programme for children under 5

With David Wood
Today: Coppelia

Paul Brook and Victoria Moss from Ravenstonedale spend a day with Tom Lancaster to explore the world of the shepherd and to visit a gypsy horse fair

A cartoon film series
The underwater adventures of Marine Boy, the Ocean Patrol, and the white dolphin, Splasher

A new film series with Parsley the lion and Dill the dog.

The facts, the people, the background of the nation's capital
With Brian Ash, Alan Shallcross, Joan Shenton, Robert Wellings

Nationwide
The news, features, opinions of the country at large, co-ordinated by Michael Barratt from BBC studios throughout the UK
With Robert Langley, Lynn Lewis, Jack Pizzey, Philip Tibenham

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

The latest act of wilful damage leaves the police wondering - there are enough suspects and motives, but is that enough?

Starring Michael Craig, Anne Helm with Cecil Parker, Roland Culver, Noel Purcell, Alan Hale

The star of tonight's comedy is a huge brute of a girl, known affectionately as 'The Iron Maiden.' Michael Craig plays her enthusiastic owner - an aircraft designer who has a way with... traction engines!

Robert Robinson dips into the BBC's mailbag and adds a few comments of his own

With John Edmunds and Weather

Two hundred years ago Captain Cook sailed his ship Endeavour into Botany Bay, and claimed the great continent of Australia for the white man.

In this special bicentenary programme Michael Charlton returns to his native country to report on Australia now, after two centuries of white settlement.
Today, over twelve million people are proud to call themselves Australians. What have they made of that huge opportunity that history and the superior seamanship of Captain Cook presented them with?
"They call her a young country, but they lie; She is the last of lands, the emptiest" (A. D. Hope)
(The Australian dilemma: see pages 8 and 9)

A daily look at what matters in the news and out of it
Presented by Ludovic Kennedy with the latest news in pictures and with on-the-spot reports by Bernard Falk, David Lomax, Tom Mangold, Fyfe Robertson, Denis Tuohy and special contributions from Keith Kyle and Robert McKenzie

On 9 May the tiny planet Mercury will be seen as a black dot in transit across the sun's disc.
Because it orbits close to the sun, Mercury has always been difficult to observe, and astronomers can only guess at the nature of this planet.
Patrick Moore explains how a spacecraft will fly past Mercury in 1973 and send back television pictures.

by The Dean of St Paul's

Closedown