9.41 Merry-go-Round: More Puppets

10.3 Maths Workshop: Stage 2: Numbers Growing

10.25-10.45 Music in Action: 3: 'Echo haunts the lonely caves'
(Colour)

11.0 Going to Work: Working with Children

11.25 People of Many Lands: Arctic Region: Lapps
Commentary by Michael Rodd
(Colour)

11.50 Twentieth-Century Focus: Covered for Life?
First of two films about the world of insurance.
(Colour)

featuring Ryan Davies

with Bob Langley, Marian Foster and David Seymour
Consumers at Large - this week from Oxford and a chat with today's Weatherman Keith Best at 1.30

A new play by Louis Marks

Marianna helps Boris remove an unwelcome visitor for the Water Sprite.
Story told by Johnny Morris

by E. Nesbit
with Arthur Lowe
Today: The Island of the Nine Whirlpools: Part 2

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

A cartoon

with Peter Woods; Weather

News and views in your region (including Regional Weather)
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings
with Tibenham's Travels
Philip Tibenham takes a narrow-boat and explores 500 miles of Britain's inland waterways.
(Regional details as Monday)

An extra special edition of Top of the Pops to celebrate its 500th birthday featuring this week's chart successes and surprise guest appearances from the international world of pop.
Introduced by Jimmy Savile, Tony Blackburn, Noel Edmonds, Kenny Everett
Top of the Pops Orchestra
conducted by Johnny Pearson

Introduced by Magnus Magnusson
Scottish geography and literature, opera and Britain's railways - four new contestants meet in tonight's round from Glasgow University.

Each year thousands flock to what has been called the greatest show on earth - the Dublin Horse Show.
It's the occasion when the farmer the foreigner and the foremost in the land meet to compete. It's the time for clear rounds in the ring and full rounds in the bar - for horseplay at the hunt ball and blarney at the sales. But as David Dimbleby discovers it is above all the time when the Irish celebrate their love for the horse.
(Repeated next Monday at 3.30)

with Richard Baker and Peter Woods; Weather

[Starring] William Conrad as Frank Cannon

Fear strikes in a respectable suburb. Its wealthy middle-aged inhabitants insist that the events are just pranks, played by teenaged children. But this refusal to face reality leaves Cannon alone to face a group of fanatics.

Written by Richard Waring
The award-winning comedy series created by Brian Clemens and Richard Waring
CCTA Award Winner
Starring John Alderton and Hannah Gordon
with Norman Bird, Tim Barrett

Before their divorce, George and Suzy Basset clinched an important advertising contract for their firm by having dinner with the client. Now a similar assignment has come up...

Introduced by Ludovic Kennedy together with Nicholas Harman

A series of ten programmes

Marine biologist Roland von Hentig leads an expedition to the Indian Ocean to record the ecology of coral reefs. In the Islands of Comoro they found unspoilt reefs where they could look for answers to some of the more puzzling phenomena.
A BBC/NIR co-production
Book £3.20: see page 78