7.05 Genetics

7.30 Metals and the Electrochemical Series

(UHF only)

9.38 Countdown: No Mean Figure

10.0 Merry-go-Round: The Crocodile: 3: A More Important Matter
A three-part story

10.23 Maths Workshop: Stage 1: Crossing the Line

A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them.

You and Me Book 2 accompanies the morning programmes, 28p, from bookshops

Weather Bill Giles

Bob Langley, Donny Macleod, Marian Foster and David Seymour live from the entrance hall of the BBC Broadcasting Centre in Birmingham, including Other People's Gardens and The Fitness Game with Jonah Barrington

2.1 Words and Pictures: Trog and the Dog
A new series for 6- and 7-year-olds in the beginning stages of reading.
Introduced by Henry Woolf

2.18 British Social History: Time Off

2.40 Music in Action: So the Story Goes

A programme for children under 5

Told by Richard Briers

with Martin Jarvis

(in five parts)

The ghost of Phrixus will not rest in peace until the 'Golden Fleece' is brought back from the ends of the earth. This is the voyage which Jason must undertake if he is to win his rightful throne; but clashing rocks, fire-breathing bulls and an unsleeping dragon lie ahead of him.

with John Noakes, Peter Purves and Lesley Judd
The Blue Peter Book of Odd Odes, 45p from bookshops

The adventures in magic of Samantha, who tries to be an ordinary mortal, of Darrin her husband, who is an ordinary mortal, and their daughter Tabitha, who seems to have inherited her mother's charms.

The Great Bank Robbery
The adventures of Captain Pugwash and his daredevil crew.

with Richard Baker; Weatherman

Britain's most popular current affairs programme.

Presented this week by by Michael Barratt, Frank Bough, Bob Wellings and Dilys Morgan.

Reporters at large: Luke Casey, Bernard Falk, Diane Harron, James Hogg, John Stapleton, Patrick Stenson, Martin Young.

by Pip and Jane Baker
Starring James Ellis, Douglas Fielding
with Allan O'Keefe, David Jackson

A young girl is attacked and Lynch has to look into 'all the fun of the fair.'

Introduced by David Dimbleby

In Europe there is a growing shortage of babies for adoption and a new traffic is growing up as couples look to Asia for the children they are unable to have themselves.

It can be a controlled and humane transfer, or insensitive and corrupt. Tom Mangold reports from Bangkok, where a baby can be bought for cash in the slums, and from Bangladesh and Korea.

with Richard Baker; Weather

starring Rod Steiger
with Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters, Jaime Sanchez

A Jewish pawnbroker in New York, survivor of the Nazi death camps where his family died, Sol can no longer respond to life until life catches up with him...

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