9.38 Countdown
Plan of action for Sally Thomsett, David Warwick, Martin Howells, Stuart Saunders

10.0 Merry-go-Round: Digging the Black Seam
How does a pit work and where did the coal come from? Max Mason joins the miners underground to find out.
(Colour)

10.23 Maths Workshop: Stage 1: Round-up One

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

11.0 British Social History: The Mill Children

11.22 Music Time: Programme 11

11.45 New Horizons: The Edwardian Affair: Rich Man, Poor Man
Christopher Thorne looks at the social divisions in society before the Great War.
(Colour)

Bob Langley, Marian Foster and David Seymour present the ideas, activities, music and personalities of the day live from the entrance hall of the BBC Broadcasting Centre in Birmingham, including Plain and Fancy - Cooking with Jack Douglas.

2.2 Words and Pictures: Programme 11
(Colour)

2.20 English: Working on a Play: The Brave One

by Margery Williams Bianco
with Ted Ray
and puppets by Sheena Lane

Of all the toys in the nursery, Poor Cecco was the most adventuresome. He was a wooden dog who had bright ideas which always led to the most unexpected adventures.
Today: How poor Cecco lost his tail

with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

Blue Peter Eleventh Book, 70p from bookshops
More like Mill Reef: page 4

by Peter Dickinson
Adapted in ten parts by Anna Home

Nicky thinks she is quite alone in the deserted city - but then she hears singing...

with Peter Woods; Weatherman

Look North, South Today, Look East, Midlands Today, Points West, Spotlight South West
News, interviews and analysis from your region tonight, including local weather.

The recent whirlwinds of change in southern Africa have created a new and exciting situation in which a final settlement of the Rhodesian problem now looks a possibility.
Tonight David Dimbleby and Richard Kershaw report on the chances of black and white Rhodesians reaching agreement.

with Kenneth Kendall and Peter Woods; Weather

by David Rudkin
A set of 26 plays based on passages from Winston S. Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

"Henceforward the issue is no longer whether the Island shall be Christian or pagan, but whether the Roman or the Celtic view of Christianity shall prevail." (Winston Churchill)
Starring Leo McKern as King Penda, Robert Hardy as King Oswy
with Eric Lander as The General
(Colour)
Gods and demigods: page 4

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