9.38 Countdown: What's in a Number?
Alex Glasgow spends a night in Room 13.

10.0 Merry-go-Round: Dead Bones
Introduced by Michael Burrell

10.25-10.45 South America: Land: 1
Two examples from Brazil show the sort of life led by people in the South American countryside.
A Danish TV production
(Colour)

11.5 A Year's Journey: Across the Sands

11.30 New Horizons: China: The Experience of Revolution

(Book, £1.00: see page 63)

Topical feature

The programme with the informal air, introduced by Bob Langley. A chance to meet the people and personalities who drop in to talk about ideas, events and interests. Plus a daily chat with the Weatherman Keith Best

(Colour)

On their second visit to the pet shop, Peter West and Nick Henderson look at tropical fish and reptiles, and test the appetite of the legendary Piranha fish.

2.5 Words and Pictures: Sam on Boffs' Island: Part 13
by Michael Rosen
A play with puppets, for young readers
(Colour)

2.25 Going to Work: Supermarket

2.50 Maths Today: Year 2: Combined Operations

3.13 Look Out: In-place

3.35 Twentieth-Century Focus: Advertising

3.55 Interval

(Colour)

A programme for children under 5

by Ramona Maher
with Blain Fairman
This week, stories about some of the bravest and fiercest hunters in the world - the Eskimos.

(Colour)

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

with Peter Woods
and Weather

bringing you news and views in your region tonight
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings

Do we need a free, comprehensive birth control scheme in this country? By the year 2000 there will be an extra eight million people living in Britain. So just to keep things as they are the Government will have to provide 600 new infant school places a day, a new large comprehensive school every other day, 2,000 new flats or houses a week and 20,000 new jobs a month. One alternative is a policy to reduce population by more effective birth control. Yet some people argue that a free comprehensive service would lead to greater permissiveness and promiscuity.
Tonight Alastair Burnet and Julian Pettifer look at the problem of our increasing population, and examine the arguments for putting contraceptives on the National Health.

(Colour)

with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods
Weather

(Colour)

by Michael O'Neill and Jeremy Seabrook
[Starring] John Collin as Terry, Angela Crow as Val, David Swift as Councillor Bass, Rosemary Martin as Freda Bass

What would you do if the council decided it needed your house to build a road? Is it worth a fight? Terry decides to have a go.

at the Palais Ballroom, Nottingham with Terry Wogan and Miss United Kingdom Jenny McAdam
Compere Peter Wheeler
and The Ray McVay Orchestra
Organised by Mecca Promotions

(except London): Closedown