9.38 Out of the Past: A Merchant of Florence

10.0 Colour Look and Read

Cloud Burst - 10: Fire the rockets!
by RICHARD CARPENTER
With TINA HEATH , ANNE RIDLER, MILES ANDERSON , BILL GAVIN, NIGEL RATHBONE , RENU SETNA, MICHAEL SHEARD , KENNETH WATSON, JANE CARR , DEREK GRIFFITHS and CHARLES COLLINGWOOD
Producer SUE WEEKS

10.25-10.45 History 1917-73 Britain and Europe

11.0 Colour Watch!: The Emperor's New Clothes: a puppet story. Making and dressing paper people.
Presented by JEAN ROGERS and KEN BINGE Puppets by ALAN PLATT
Animation by BURA and HARDWICK Producer MOYRA GAMBLETON

11.18 Colour Going to Work: I Don't Understand!

11.40 Colour Music in Action: The Cruel Reflection

12.5 Colour A Job Worth Doing?: Retail and Distribution

Light entertainment

Weatherman BARBARA EDWARDS

BOB LANGLEY MARIAN FOSTER
DAVID SEYMOUR and DONNY MACLEOD

2.2 Music Time: 10

2.25 Colour People of Many Lands Sri Lanka: Ambalangoda
Commentator CHRISTOPHER TRACE Producer PEGGIE BROADHEAD

Introduced by Donny MacLeod
The gardener must be the easiest member of the family to buy presents for at Christmas. BRIAN WALKDEN looks at garden gadgets, PETER SEABROOK chooses the best plants for presents, and DONNY MACLEOD tries out some ideas for Christmas decoration.
Producer Jeremy PALLANT (Birmingham)

Michael Aspel invites you to join him and meet his guests in the studio this afternoon and to hear from some of the regular contributors:
DR DAVID DELVIN , IAN GRIMBLE TONY HAWES , JOANNA LEWIS
LINDA MILLINGTON and DELIA SMITH
Director PHILIP CHILVERS
Producer FRANCES WHITAUR Editor JANET HOENIG

Story: Sam's Simple Song by PETER CHARLTON
Guest storyteller Colin Jeavons Presenters
KAREN PLATT , JOHNNY BALL

with Margaret Tyzack The Ogre Downstairs by DIANA WYNNE JONES
Today: Flying and Changing

Introduced by Roy Castle with Norris and Ross MeWhirter who discover the fastest - slowest - strongest - highest - toughest - anyone or anything that claims to be a record breaker. This week's special guest is J. Hart Rosdail , the most travelled man on earth.
Designer GARRY FREEMAN Producer ALAN RUSSELL

When the pipes call the tune

Peter Woods; Weatherman

Look North, South Today
Look East, Midlands Today
Points West, Spotlight South West with Consumer Unit, presented by Valerie Singleton , Richard Stilgoe

This week : The Fountain
The team put a fresh complexion on matters.

by Norman Ashby
starring Donald Burton, David Savile with Norman Eshley, Bernard Kay.
On distant waters patrol in the Arctic Ocean, "Hero" intercepts a message about a mutiny on board a British trawler...

with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weather

A View of Europe in the Twentieth Century
A television history in 13 parts
Written and narrated by John Terraine
With personal comments by Peter Ustinov

Ferment, rivalries, revolution!
It was in 1904 that the trajectory of European history suddenly entered a steep curve. It could even be said that the fall of the Mighty Continent began in that year.
In this episode we show the sequence of mounting crises through which the feuds of the Europeans expressed themselves. We look at the armed forces and their new extensions: submarines and aircraft. We watch the apparently inexorable progress of national rivalry towards an explosion - which turns out to be the explosion of an assassin's bullet at Sarajevo.

Book (some title) £5.95 from bookshops

Introduced by Ludovic Kennedy
Tom Mangold , Vincent Hanna , Michael Cockerell , Bill Kerr Elliott, David Jessel , Julian Mounter and David Lomax are the Midweek correspondents.
Deputy editor JOHN GAU
Editor PETER PAGNAMENTA

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