10.0 Merry-go-Round (Sex Education): Birth
10.23 Colour Let's Look at Wales The Ice Age
Producer J. MERVYN WILLIAMS
10.45 Colour You and Me Touch Wood with JACQUI MCDONALD and BRIDIE O'DONNELL
Producer BARBARA PARKER

Serial play.
(First shown on BBC Wales)

Collectors' Corner with Arthur Negus and a chat about today's weather with Barbara Edwards at 1.30

(Colour)

In parts of South Wales, Sheepdog Trials are as popular as rugby matches. To their oddly assorted masters, working collies are the only dogs worth owning. Roy Saunders, a schoolmaster turned sheepdog handler, reflects on the men and animals 'whose looks don't matter - it's what's in their heads that counts.'
(from Wales; first shown on BBC2)

A new comedy film series starringand the lady of the house The Burglar Alarm
A series of robberies in the neighbourhood makes Albert so nervous that his employer agrees to have an alarm system installed. Albert is put in charge of the arrangements - with highly unsatisfactory results.

Take a new look at the afternoon with Alan Towers and Iris Chapple
2.55* Exercise the Lazy Way With JOANNA LEWIS
3.0* What's On at the Pictures? New films on release
3.15* News Headlines
3.17* The Short Story John Slater tells
The White Bungalow by A. J. ALAN
Back at home, my wife said: ' It's rather funny about where she lives! She comes from that white bungalow where you answered the telephone.'
3.30* Joyce Hopkirk asks ...
3.45* In the Junk Room With TONY HAWES
Director PHILIP CHILVERS Producer JANET HOENIG
3.58 What's On/Regional News

(Shown at 11.0 am on BBC2)
(Colour)

and her Parrot
A Czechoslovak cartoon
The adventures of a little girl and her fabulous feathered friend,

with Cyril Luckham
The Church Cat Abroad written and illustrated by GRAHAM OAKLEY
Sampson was a church cat. When he decided to become an actor to earn money to pay for the repair of the vestry roof, he had no idea it would lead him into so many adventures - at home and abroad.
Director DAPHNE JONES
Executive producer ANNA HOME

A thrilling new cartoon series 5: Lassie is trapped at the top of a Big Dipper and the situation seems desperate.

A comedy series starring Johnny Ball, Julie Stevens, Derek Griffiths
In which, among other things, Julius Caesar pays a visit, Raleigh goes 3,000 miles on one galleon and the Red Indians, in a flap with their wigwam, welcome a new arrival.
(from Manchester)

English version written and told by Eric Thompson.

with Richard Baker ; Weather

bringing you news and views in your region tonight
(including Regional Weather) Presented by MICHAEL BARRATT
FRANK BOUGH , BOB WELLINGS and sue LAWLEY with Sport on Friday
Jimmy Hill looks ahead to tomorrow's Scotland v England football international and talks to the Football Manager of the Year announced today.
Editor MICHAEL BUNCE

The 1974 inter-town competition. Ripon v Rotherham
The winner will represent Great Britain in the third heat of the Eurovision Competition to be held in Viareggio, Italy, on 16 August. Tonight's programme introduced from Ripon by Eddie Waring and Stuart Hall Referee ARTHUR ELLIS
RADIO TIMES Miss Knockout finalist CHERRY PARRISH, of Marston, Bedfordshire
Designer STUART FURBER Director BILL TAYLOR
Producer BARNEY COLEHAN
Games from It's a Knockout, 20p from bookshops

with Richard Baker and Richard Whitmore ; Weather

starring
Laurence Naismith , T. P. McKenna Peter Woodthorpe , Barry Foster Peter Copley , Nora Swinburne in The Indian Summer of an Emperor by ROBERT MULLER
The autocrat whose authority depends upon his own faith in the Almighty faces insuperable problems when faced with political decisions for which he has no clear divine guidance.
To Franz Josef , the assassination of his heir at Sarajevo seemed like divine retribution.
Series created by JOHN ELLIOT Make-up MAUREEN WINSLADE Designer CHRIS PEMSEL Producer STUART BURGE
Director DONALD MCWHINNIE
Fall of Eagles 95p, from bookshops

and Weekend Weather
What's On/Regional News

Chairman Michael Aspel casts the spell over Robin Ray
Joan Collins , Michael Jayston and Michael Parkinson
Janet Suzman , Denis Gifford
Programme consultant PETER NOBLE Designer PETER MAVIUS DirectorDES SISSONS
Producer JOHN BUTTERY (from Manchester)

Starring Pat O'Brien, Claire Trevor, Herbert Marshall
A gang of swindlers devise a subtle plan to discredit an expert detector of forged masterpieces a plan that almost costs him his sanity.
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