9.38 Countdown: Never Mind the Distance...
Presented by Alex Glasgow
with Sally Thomsett, John Arthur Baron, Louis Selwyn, Robert Henderson

10.0 Merry-go-Round: Looking for Romans: 2

10.25-10.45 USA 72: Mississippi
Black mayor of small southern town: 'We put up that sign of a black and white hand joined together 'cos we're all Americans ...ain't we?'
Commentary by Denis Tuohy
(Colour)

11.5 A Year's Journey: Iron Age Village

11.30 New Horizons: Creative Computers?

Owners and directors of small companies discuss the importance of long-term plans.
(Book £1.25: see page 74)

Topical feature
(First shown on BBC Wales)

Bob Langley welcomes guests, personalities, names in the headlines and people who just happen to drop in. Plus a daily chat with the Weatherman Keith Best

(Colour)

In parts of South Wales Sheep-dog Trials are as popular as rugby matches. To their oddly assorted masters, working collies are the only dogs worth owning.
(BBC Wales)
(First shown on BBC2)

2.5 Words and Pictures: 'Sam on Boffs' Island': Part 7
by John Tully
A play with puppets, for young readers.
(Colour)

2.25 Going to Work: Working with Gas

2.50 Maths Today: Year 2: Looking at Shapes

3.13 Look Out: Putting on the Style

3.35 Twentieth-Century Focus: Assembly Workers

(Colour)

by Roy Brown.
with Joe Melia
and children from the Anna Scher Children's Theatre in Islington

This week's stories are about Carol, Jim, Herby and Brenda and their friends. They all live near the Arsenal football ground, in London. They're keen on football of course, and other things like fishing and animals and pop music.

(Colour)

with Valerie Singleton, John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

A serial in 13 parts by N.J. Crisp

Just when John and Susan's situation seems hopeless, a jet-boat speeds out across the lake...

with Look North, South Today, Look East, Midlands Today, Points West and Spotlight South West bringing you news and views in your region tonight
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings

by Ben Bassett
Starring James Ellis, Ian Cullen, Douglas Fielding
with John Swindells, Stephanie Turner

Old Sepp is passing through Newtown; PC Hackett is on the way out... but both are involved with Marlene.

Alliance is a small town in Ohio which, if the opinion polls are right, will tomorrow help put President Nixon back in the White House for four more years. Why?
In a journey from the White House to Ohio Julian Pettifer has been looking for the answers.

(Colour)

with Robert Dougall
Weather

by David Halliwell

When Len climbs over the garden fence to burgle the house of Veronica and Percy, what really happens next? It all depends on who is telling the story at the time.

(Radio Times People: page 4)
(Colour)

This new brain game invites contenders to take the stand and defend their claim to the title of Mastermind of the United Kingdom
Tonight's contenders represent Wales, and the programme comes from the Llandaff College of Technology, Cardiff.
Interrogator Magnus Magnusson

Joan Bakewell looks at the latest films and at what's going on in the film world today, including this week The Triple Echo, starring Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed.

Some episodes from her past.

followed by Closedown