Told by Ray Brooks.
(Colour)
9.38 Merry-go-Round: Beginning
The first of three sex education programmes for 8-and 9-year-olds
10.0-10.15 Words and Pictures (A)
10.25-10.45 Maths Workshop: Stage 1: Solid Shapes
11.0 Watch!: Boats: Sinking and Floating
The whole of the first morning's play direct from Old Trafford.
A Test Match against Australia is always one of cricket's special occasions. In this first match of the series, Ian Chappell's young team will provide tough opposition as England start their bid to retain the Ashes won by Ray Illingworth's side in Sydney last year.
Introduced by Peter West
Today's Watch with Mother
Story by Alison Prince.
(Colour)
Further coverage of the first day's play at Old Trafford.
(On BBC2 from 4.30 pm)
A programme for children under 5
by Mary Dawson
with Glyn Houston
(Colour)
with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
News and opinions from the country at large and, in particular, Your Region Tonight
(including Regional Weather) presented by Michael Barratt and Bob Wellings
A new series in which teams will compete with each other to identify foreign scenes and answer questions about life in other countries.
Resident team
John Carter, Polly Elwes, Stephen Danos
Visiting team
Tom Savage, Romany Bain, Harry Chandler
Chairman Ray Alan
by John Gould
[Starring] Paul Daneman, Julian Glover
'There is a traitor in this unit'
Introduced by Tony Blackburn
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Pan's People
Written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie with Tim Brooke-Taylor
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie
[with] Julian Orchard, Tommy Godfrey, Ray Marlowe
In the third and final programme in this series, Harold Williamson looks at two men who enjoy the work they are doing. Not highly qualified and not generously paid - they have jobs that give them fulfilment: variety, purpose and freedom to work on their own initiative. Both are detectives: one, an older self-styled 'thief-catcher' in Pudsey, Yorkshire; the other younger, concerned with reforming as well as catching offenders, in Doncaster. Real detectives with opinions about the law, the human race - and even Softly, Softly.
with Kenneth Kendall; Weather
by John Hale
"...a political thriller as fast, urgent and exciting as Dumas." (Daily Mail)
"The colours and costumes, sets and scenes and images are as striking, gorgeous and evocative as we knew they would be. Plainly not a moment should be missed." (Sunday Times)
Elizabeth R won the 1971-1972 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Series - Drama; Outstanding New Series.
Glenda Jackson won: Outstanding Continued Performance, Actress in Leading Role in Dramatic Series; Outstanding Single Performance, Actress in Leading Role.
Elizabeth Waller won: Outstanding Achievement Costume Design
(Glenda Jackson: pages 52-54)
(Colour)
with the latest news in pictures
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