9.38 Science Session: Babies and Children
Commentary by Sarah Ward

10.0 Look and Read: The Boy from Space: 7
by Richard Carpenter

10.25-10.45 The Growth of Modern Wales: Modern Industry: 2: Light Industry
Presented by John Darran
(For Schools in Wales)

11.5 Scene: Mates

11.35 Music Time

Songs of the people and their background

2.40 Cheltenham Steeplechase Stakes (Handicap) with £1,000 added to a sweepstakes over 3 miles, 1 furlong and a few yards

3.15 Borough Steeplechase, a plate of £650 over 2 miles

3.45 Cowley Novices' Hurdle (Div 2), a plate of £650 over 3 miles

A programme for children under 5

(shown at 11.0 am on BBC2)
(Colour)

by Joan G. Robinson
Adapted by John Prowse
With Ann Bell

(Next week: "Scottish Stories" with Wendy Wood)
(Colour)

Michael Aspel introduces your television requests
Send your letters to Ask Aspel, [address removed]

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

People, places and events in the news around town

Special edition
Raymond Baxter reports from the South of France on man's exploration of the cold, dark, high pressure world under the sea; and research that could make France world leader in the international race to exploit the riches of the oceans.
Featuring: underwater telephones and homing devices; survival in the intense deep sea cold; year-round farming of sea bream-at a profit; anchoring a giant tanker at an off-shore terminal; new homes for fish-in old cars!; Cousteau's latest seabed submarine.

Written by Barry Cryer and Graham Chapman
Starring Ronnie Corbett
with Madge Ryan as Mother, Richard O'Sullivan as Keith

Ronnie flies the nest to try a little bird watching. The world seems to be beckoning him, but is it just a rude gesture?

Presented by Kenneth Kendall
Weather

by Alun Richards
starring Peter Gilmore, Anne Stallybrass
and Edward Chapman, Brian Rawlinson, Philip Bond, Howard Lang, Michael Billington, Jessica Benton

James sails home to yet more money problems. Elizabeth cannot decide whether to marry Frazer or Fogarty.

(Colour)

with Michael Barratt
The chance to put your own views on some of the week's television programmes to the people who made them.

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

Reporter Frank Ross is hot on the trail of a story which links the District Attorney with a construction company scandal - and getting too close to the truth. So he has to be put out of the way...

James Cagney, sometimes called the best gangster of them all, made his first big impact as a tough guy in Public Enemy in 1931 and was at the height of his popularity when he made this hard-hitting indictment of political corruption and prison abuses, in which he plays the crusading journalist and leaves the gangster part to another well-known tough guy - George Raft.

(This Week's Films: page 11)

(all except London and Wales)
Closedown