9.41 Merry-go-Round: What's a Zoo for?
(Colour)

10.3 Countdown: Record of Crime

10.25-10.45 Music in Action: 6: Abode of the Dead
(Colour)

11.0 Going to Work: Office Work

11.25 Science Extra: Biology: Life in the Soil

11.50 Twentieth-Century Focus: The Nutfield Road Irregulars

Featuring Guto Roberts

with Bob Langley, Marian Foster, David Seymour and Donny MacLeod
Consumers at Large and a chat with today's Weatherman Keith Best at 1.30

A programme for children under 5
Story: "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Adapted by Jo Stevens

by Astrid Lindgren
with Patricia Routledge
Today: Pippi Longstocking has a Grand Visitor

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

with Peter Woods; Weather

Bringing you news and views in your region tonight (including Regional Weather)
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough and Bob Wellings
with Consumer Unit
Your weekly guide to consumer problems and how to avoid them.
Presented by Valerie Singleton
(Colour)
(Regional details as Monday)

Introduced by Noel Edmonds
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Pan's People

Magnus Magnusson introduces the ninth heat which comes from the University of Keele. Reginald Drew answers on the Royal Navy, Sally Copeland on classical mythology, Christopher Monro on English literature and Marjorie Elliott on symphony orchestras.

with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods; Weather

by Colin Welland
with Stephen Murray, Isabel Dean

"Tell me when I'm past it," says Rowland, ageing star of the local Gilbert and Sullivan Society. But, of course, he is and nobody will. Not even when a talent like young Clive Bates is champing at the bit. The Silver Jubilee production looms. Who's going to play Jack Point?
The yeomen of the G and S guard: pages 9 and 11

A series of ten programmes

Some creatures carry so much weaponry and armour it's remarkable their predators don't die of starvation. The balance of life on a coral reef is partly the balance of population between predators and prey. Only the very largest fish are safe from being eaten-most reef inhabitants are someone else's dinner. Roland Von Hentig continues his exploration of the reefs of Comoro in the Indian Ocean.
BBC/NDR co-production
Book £3.20: see page 82