9.38 Countdown
Counting the Cost
Spending patterns and best buys examined by ALEX GLASGOW Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE
10.0 Merry-go-Round: Water Introduced by MICHAEL RODD Producer SUE WEEKS
10.23 Maths Workshop: Stage 1 Round-Up-Two
10.45 Colour You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them. Jim's Vegetables
Introduced by NIGEL LAMBERT Producer BARBARA PARKER
11.0 British Social History Goods and Chattels
11.22 Music Time: 21
11.45 New Horizons: Modern Music The Collapse of Tonality
(Colour)
Bob Langley , Marian Foster and David Seymour plus The Eureka Club for Frustrated Inventors, The Harry Engleman Quiz and Weatherman KEITH BEST at 1.30
Editor TERRY DOBSON
Last summer's discoveries at Vindolanda, the Roman settlement near Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland, turned a little-known archaeological site into a major tourist attraction.
George House reports on the discoveries-ranging from a size 11 boot (Roman soldier for the use of) to a perfectly-preserved 2,000-year-old stable fly-and talks to Robin Birley , of Excavations.
Producer ROGER BURGESS
A taste of the Romans; Thur 10.10 BBC2
Crafts with Katy Manning
[Repeat]
Book (same title), 40p, from bookshops
with James Burke
(Shown last Thursday: not Scotland or Northern Ireland)
In the chair: Eleanor Summerfield This week with Maxine Audley and Joe Lynch
Devised by MARK GOODSON , BILL TODMAN GEOFF wilson Producer CECIL KORER
A programme for children under 5
Storytime from Play School, 25p, from bookshops
High Jinks
with Michael Gough The Golden Touch by LYNNE REID BANKS
The story of a king who wished and wished so much for gold. that a magician gave the king the golden touch. A gift that was to lead to extraordinary spelling and un-spelling of things with witches and dragons appearing out of nowhere. 1: A Wish for Gold
with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
Paddington's Blue Peter Story Book, £1.25, from bookshops
The adventures in magic of Samantha, who tries to be an ordinary mortal,
with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather
with Look North, South Today Look East, Midlands Today
Points West, Svpiliqht South West (including Regional Weather) Presented by Michael Barratt Frank Bough, Bob Wellings and Sue Lawley
Editor MICHAEL BUNCE
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The programme that brings you the most interesting stories and the issues you want to know more about.
With reporters Alastair Burnet Michael Charlton , Robin Day
Richard Kershaw , Richard Lindley Robert MacNeil , Julian Pettifer Denis Tuohy , Alan Watson
Assistant editor DAVID HARRISON Editor FRANK SMITH
with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods ; Weather
Isherwood's Cabaret
The first of a series of six films which deals with artists or works which have particularly caught the imagination of the public, looks at Christopher Isherwood and his most famous character, the innocent, decadent, Sally Bowles. Turned into a play and a film under the title I Am a Camera, starring Julie Harris ,
Sally Bowles eventually became the heroine of the phenomenally successful musical Cabaret. Isherwood. talks frankly about the original Sally and his relationship to her and his life in pre-Hitler Berlin 40 years ago. With Julie Harris
Film editor JOHN NEEDHAM
Executive producer MIKE WOOLLER JULIAN JEBB
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