9.38 Countdown: As Long as a Piece of String
Mary and Madeleine Collinson reveal their measurements to Alex Glasgow and Penny Lowe

10.0 Merry-go-Round: A Visitor to Lyme
with Jasper Jacob
This programme sets the scene for The Crocodile

10.25-10.45 South America: Land: 2
A traditional estate and a modern cattle ranch in Colombia continue last week's theme of rural South America.
A Bavarian TV production
(Colour)

11.5 A Year's Journey: Stone from the Hills

11.30 New Horizons: China: Three Chinese Paintings

12.0 Office: 5: To File - or Not to File?
(Book, £1.00: see page 59)

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 Bert Foord

(Colour)

Monkeys, chinchillas, and kinkajous; easy to buy but are they easy to keep?
Peter West and Nick Henderson look at the more exotic pets.
Producer MIKE BEGG
Series producer BARRIE EDGAR ‡

2.5 Words and Pictures: Sam on Boffs' Island: Part 15
by John Tully

(Colour)

2.25 Going to Work: Apprenticeship

2.50 Maths Today: Year 2: Around the Field

3.13 Look Out: Peoplesville

3.35 Twentieth-Century Focus: Cinema: Breakthrough
The industry needs breakthrough films but is often unkind to the artists who make them.
Commentary by Michael Rodd

(Colour)

by Tove Jansson
with Judi Dench

It all began with a hot day in June and a volcano spitting and grumbling off the coast. Then a great flood wave came crashing through Moomin Valley and the Moomins had to find themselves a new home.

(Colour)

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

by Elisabeth Beresford
Told by Bernard Cribbins

with Peter Woods
and Weather

(Colour)

Bringing you news and views in your region tonight
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings
(Michael Barratt's Choice: page 5)

TV's top reporters close in on the most interesting topics of the day.
Alastair Burnet, Michael Charlton, Alan Hart, Francis Hope, Richard Kershaw, Julian Pettifer, Alan Watson

(Colour)

with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods
Weather

by Dennis Potter
with Keith Barron as Christopher Hudson, Georgina Hale as Sandra George

"I keep thinking you are going to dictate something. I mean, that's what I'm here for... isn't it?"

(Colour)

at the Locarno Ballroom, Bradford
with Terry Wogan and Miss United Kingdom Jenny McAdam
Compere Ian Masters
and The Bobby Brooke Orchestra
Organised by Mecca Promotions

(Colour)

followed by Regional News and Weather (except London): Closedown