9.38 Countdown
As Long as a Piece of String
10.0 Colour Merry-go-Round Nets and Networks
' A lot of holes held together with string': an idea which leads BARBARA BROWN and MAX MASON from spiders' webs to frameworks, grids, mazes and ' plotting.' Producer MIKE HARRISON
10.23 Maths Workshop: Stage 1 Circles and Spirals

Book (same title) 20p from bookshops

11.0 British Social History The Younger Citizens
The Welfare State gives young people greater security than ever before. They learn more, earn more and expect more. But their lives now seem much less predictable than those of pre-war young people.
Presented by NICK ROSS Producer JOHN CHAPPLE
11.22 Music Time: Programme 15
11.45 Colour New Horizons
Parents and Children - ' The Young Offender': Part 1. British Law makes special provisions for young people.
Producer EURFRON GWYNNE JONES

Weatherman BARBARA EDWARDS

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
Editor TERRY DOBSON

2.2 Words and Pictures Programme 15
(Colour)

2.20 English: Introduction to Heil Caesar
by JOHN BOWEN
With ANTHONY BATE , PETER HOWELL, DAVID ALLISTER, PETER SETTELEN and JOHN SALTHOUSE
Five of the cast from next week's production of Heil Caesar discuss with JOHN BOWEN, the writer, how the play was conceived.
Director LEN BROWN
(Colour)
Heil Caesar by John Bowen, 80p from bookshops

with Ed Bishop The Hawkstone by JAY WILLIAMS : in five parts
' Things that people have used and had by them for hundreds of years-they take on a power, a kind of life of their own.' So said Miss Hillhouse. When Colin found the Hawkstone, he began to understand what she had meant 1: On Thunderhead

with John Noakes
Peter Purves , Lesley Judd
Producer JOHN ADCOCK
Assistant editor ROSEMARY gill Editor BIDDY BAXTER

by Peter Dickinson: adapted in ten parts by Anna Home
Nicky, accused of being a witch, is on trial for her life; and it looks as if the verdict is going to be 'guilty'...

with Richard Whitmore
Weatherman

News, interviews and analysis from your region tonight, including local weather
Presented by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough, Bob Wellings, Sue Lawley and Susanne Hall

with Kenneth Kendall and Richard Whitmore ; Weather

A set of 26 plays based on passages from WINSTON S. CHURCHILL 'S A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Episode 7: A Sprig of Broom bv BRIAN RAWLINSON
(WINSTON CHURCHILL)
Programme devised by BRIAN RAWLINSON Script editor and gerai.d SAVORY Producer Designer EVAN HERCULES Director Michael hayes
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