Today's Watch with Mother
(Colour)

9.38 Maths Workshop: Stage 1: Solid Shapes

10.0 History 1917-71: Mao's China
Commentary by Brian Redhead

10.25-10.40 Words and Pictures: B: The Boy Without a Name
(Reading Practice)

11.0 Watch!: Gliding: Flight

11.18 Going to Work: Model Girl

11.40 Making Music: The Story of Lieutenant Cockatoo

12.5 New Horizons: Watchdog: 2
The European Parliament in action at Strasbourg. David Holmes continues the discussion on extending and strengthening its powers.

(Colour)

People and possessions

Today's Watch with Mother
A series of programmes looking at the wild life to be found in different parts of Canada including a moose, a black bear and a racoon.

(Colour)

A programme for children under 5

by John Grant
with John Grant

(Colour)

A weekly series introduced by Johnny Morris
The World of Animals
In the wild, in the zoo, at home: a magazine of stories about animals constantly illustrating their own kind of magic.
(from Bristol)

News and opinions from the country at large and, in particular, Your Region Tonight
(including Regional Weather) presented by Michael Barratt and Bob Wellings

Also starring Michael Wilding

In the 'austerity years' a series of gay romantic comedies starring Anna Neagle helped to brighten many people's lives.
Tonight in the first of a season of these light-hearted films, Anna Neagle plays the designer-manageress of a Mayfair dress salon, and her co-star is Michael Wilding - a partnership which became one of the most successful in the history of British films.

(This Week's Films: page 9; Next week: 'Spring in Park Lane')

Presented all this week by Robert Dougall with the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world
Weather

The first of two programmes about our national newspapers.

"There will be no war in Europe... All nations desire peace and that includes Germany and Italy." Lord Beaverbrook, 1939
"I think he was a terrible influence... he made a fortune out of newspapers and at the same time he left behind him a trail of lost causes." James Cameron, journalist

In 300 years the British national press rose from a dangerous, clandestine trade to a profession in which press lords thought they wielded power over prime ministers. Did they? Or did the struggle for the freedom of the press merely end in the freedom of a few powerful proprietors to try to dictate to readers, writers and politicians what they should do? The hacks of Grub Street - 17th-century publishers and pamphleteers began the fight for the freedom to print news and opinion. The executioner, prison, the pillory were waiting for them. By the 19th century it seemed that freedom had been won. The Times was among those newspapers which made Fleet Street independent and influential. Northcliffe bought it. Rothermere and Beaverbrook rose. Death was no longer the penalty, but disagreement could mean professional death. The press remained precarious. The fight now was economic and managerial. Freedom would still cost a lot.
Written and narrated by Paul Ferris

(Part 2 tomorrow at 9.20 pm)
(It's 3-1 you're reading this man's paper: page 3)

from Wembley Stadium

David Coleman is the commentator, assisted by experts Don Revie (Leeds Utd) and Brian Clough (Derby County), at the third match in this week's Home International Tournament.
In 78 previous full international meetings between England and N Ireland, England have won 61, N Ireland have won 5, and 12 internationals drawn.
(My team to beat the world: pages 6-7)

Patrick Garland reads from "The Desert Fathers" by Helen Waddell

followed by Regional News and Weather, Closedown