9.38 Countdown
Five Times Table X
10.0 Merry-go-Round
Animals on the Move: 2
10.23 Maths Workshop: Stage 1 Arrows

A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them.
Introduced by David Ashton.
Book (same title) 20p, from bookshops
(Colour)

11.0 British Social History The Hungry 30s
11.22 Music Time Programme 5
11.45 New Horizons
Poets on Poetry: SEAMUS HEANEY

Weatherman BARBARA EDWARDS

Bob Langley , Marian Foster , David Seymour present the ideas, activities, music and personalities of the day, including MacLeod in Hollywood and Walter Landauer 's Birthday Quiz.
Editor TERRY DOBSON

2.2 Words and Pictures Programme 5
2.20 Tout Compris
Au college. Au café-bar. Chez Clair. A une boum.

A film starring Billy Fury Michael Anderson Jr and guest stars Helen Shapiro Bobby Vee , Danny Williams

Billy Universe and the Satellites - a pop group yet to make good, are on their way to Brussels to take part in a contest. But their plane is delayed and they find themselves playing knights errant to an heiress in distress.

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Story: Rangakoo written by STEPHEN WEAVER illustrated by HILARY HAYTON

with Al Mancini
The Pushcart War by JEAN MERRILL
On the afternoon of 15 March, 1976 a truck ran down a pushcart belonging to a flower pedlar. Daffodils were scattered all over the street, the pushcart was flattened, and the owner of the pushcart was pitched headfirst into a pickle barrel. The Pushcart War had begun!
Today: The Daffodil Massacre

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd
Blue Peter Eleventh Book, 70p from bookshops

Michael Rodd puts observation and general knowledge questions to this week's contestants from BEDFORD and BLETCHLEY. They will be looking at scenes from Where's Johnny?; It's Tough to be a Bird; Dr Dolittle.
Director DAVID BROWN
Producer JOHN BUTTERY (Manchester)

When Roobarb found the sauce of the pond
Told by Richard Briers

Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman

News, interviews and analysis from your region tonight, including local weather
Presented by Michael Barratt Frank Bough , Bob Wellings and Sue Lawley
Reporters BERNARD FALK
JAMES HOGG , CHRISTOPHER RAINBOW PATRICK STENSON , JOHN SWINFIELD PHILIP TIBENHAM , MARTIN YOUNG
Deputy editor STUART WILKINSON Editor MICHAEL BUNCE

Gardens by p. J. HAMMOND starring
John Collin , Brian Grellis
Allan O'Keefe , Nicholas Smith
A quiet Sunday - and the dead body of a man, smartly dressed, slumped in an allotment shed ...
Script editor DOUGLAS WATKINSON Producer RODERICK GRAHAM Director MICHAEL BAYES

The coal strikes of the past two years culminated in the greatest pay rises in the industry's history and the fall of a government. Coal was again recognised as a vital source of energy and the mistake of running down the industry was freely admitted by both Parties. The immediate aim now: to win as much coal as possible. Yet, again we enter this winter with a shortage. Why? Richard Kershaw reports.
Producer PETER IBBOTSON Editor FRANK SMITH

with Kenneth Kendall and Richard Whitmore ; Weather

starring Richard Widmark, Lena Horne
Marshal Frank Patch has maintained law and order for 20 years in the town of Cottonwood Springs the only way he knows how - with his fists and a gun. But now he faces mounting pressure from leaders of the community, anxious to attract Eastern investors...
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Regional News (exc London and Northern Ireland); Weatherman