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

10.0 Merry-go-Round: A Night in Covent Garden
Introduced by Gabriel Woolf

10.25-10.45 Science Extra: Biology: Living in Rivers

11.0-11.20 British Social History: The Age of Steam: The mill children
Introduced by Robin Ray

11.30-11.55 New Horizons: Monkeys, Apes, and Men: Environment
Introduced by Caroline Medawar

12.5 Engineering Craft and Science: Unit 1: Engineering Materials: 2: What is Metal?
Introduced by D.R.C. Holmes

(Colour)

2.5 Science All Around: Time
Introduced by Fergus O'Kelly

2.30 Going to Work: Serving the Public

2.55 Science Extra: Physics: Collisions Analysed

3.20 Twentieth-Century Focus: The Scientist's Responsibility: 2: The Scientist and the Environment
Introduced by Derek Cooper

A series intended mainly for teachers, showing examples of the imaginative use of broadcasts in schools.

Diss Church Junior School, Norfolk
Introduced by David Smeeton
(First shown on BBC2)

4.35 Interval

by Helen Cresswell
With Jo Rowbottom

The Wilkses are a family of servants working in London in 1870. Wilks himself is the perfect butler but, as his daughter suspects, he has hidden depths. He has dabbled in magic and his experiments take the whole family on the strangest outing of their lives.

with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves

A radio-active cylinder must be recovered from the sea but the divers' work is interrupted by sharks.

Written and told by Eric Thompson.

Focuses on events and people making the news around town
The weekday news magazine at 6.0 pm varies regionally

The Galloping Gourmet
Graham Kerr takes a lighthearted look at one of his favourite recipes and cooks it with an expert eye.
(A series of programmes made in Canada)
(A book Entertaining with Kerr will be published by BBC Publications on 15 October, price 10s)

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

Frank Livesey's an ex-prisoner. He's also getting on a bit. And easy money's hard to come by when you're nearly past it.
(For cast list see page 34)

Television's top reporters close in on the most interesting topics of the day
Robin Day, Michael Charlton, Nicholas Harman, Alan Hart, Richard Kershaw, Robert MacNeil, Julian Pettifer
Tonight Panorama comes from the London Motor Show. More of us than ever before are buying foreign cars at a time when the British motor industry is struggling to recover from the effects of recent strikes.
(Profile of Julian Pettifer: page 0

Presented this week by Richard Baker with the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weather

Written by Talbot Rothwell and Sid Colin
[Starring] Frankie Howerd
with Wallas Eaton as Ludicrus, Elizabeth Larner as Ammonia
and featuring Alan Curtis as Captain Bumshus

by Martin Worth
with Cyril Luckham, Ursula Howells, Susan Sheers
Guest star Angela Baddeley

An eccentric stowaway, a circus of the 1920s and some stone bananas cause Bersac to travel from port to port.

A daily look at what matters in the news and out of it
Presented all this week by David Dimbleby with the latest news in pictures and with on-the-spot reports by Bernard Falk, David Lomax, James Hogg, Tom Mangold, Denis Tuohy and special contributions from Keith Kyle and Robert McKenzie

followed by Regional News and Weather (all except London and Wales) Closedown