7.5 Tensile Testing

7.30 Filament Organisation in Muscles

(UHF only)

9.38 History 1917-73 Crisis in Asia
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10.0 Out of the Past Any Old Iron

A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them.
You and Me Book 4 accompanies the morning programmes, 28p, from bookshops

11.0 Exploring Science: Scientific Investigations

11.23 Words and Pictures: Trog makes a Trap
A series to encourage reading
The Quickerwits show Trog how to make an animal trap, but it is Grandpa Gripe who falls in it. Introduced by Henry Woolf

11.40 Corners of France: Life by the Sea
Set in Brittany, the programme explores life in a fishing community.

Weather Michael Fish

Bob Langley, Donny Macleod Marian Foster and David Seymour present their selection of the ideas, activities, talking-points and personalities of the day - live from the Broadcasting Centre in Birmingham, including Family Advice with Claire Rayner

Mary lives with her parents at the top of a tall block of flats in a busy town. Her friends are Mungo, her wise old dog, and Midge, a very inquisitive mouse.

2.1 Watch!: Bees and Honey

2.18 Scan: M-way Impact: 1
What makes a motorway different? How is a motorway planned, where does it lead - and why build it in the first place?

2.40 The Electric Company. Programme 2
A new 16-part reading series from The Children's Television Workshop, New York

The programme about police affairs; including Crime Line, the 'hot line' between police and public: [number removed]
Introduced by David Seymour with Mike Dornan

BBC Birmingham

A programme for children under 5

Presenters: Julie Stevens, John Colder

More adventures of space traveller Astronut and his earth-bound pal, Oscar.

by Terry Nation
with Bernard Cribbins

Today: The Eye of the Needle

with Susan King
The last of seven programmes

When they are threatened, a herd of cows disperses, while sheep flock together. This week Susan takes the largest bull in the country for a walk as she sets about investigating the often surprising and little-known behaviour of the animals that live in the fields all round us.

A series in ten episodes

Judy lies ill in the boat shed and the rest of the family try to nurse her, whilst keeping it a secret from their father.

with Kenneth Kendall; Weatherman

Look North, South Today, Look East, Midlands Today, Points West, Spotlight South West present news and views in your region tonight.

Then at 6.25 Michael Barratt, Frank Bough, Bob Wellings and Dilys Morgan present some of the more interesting stories of life in today's Britain, including Consumer Unit with Valerie Singleton and Richard Stilgoe

(Regional details as Monday)

A season of comedy films

Tonight starring Charlie Drake
with George Baker, Annette Andre, John Le Mesurier, Derek Nimmo

Budding playwright Percy Pointer finds an impresario willing to stage his 'masterpiece' - but only because, for tax purposes, a sure-fire flop is required...

Films: page 7

Set among the survivors of a deadly global virus. A man arrives at Whitecross, but can he be trusted?

on behalf of the Liberal Party
(Also on BBC2)

with Kenneth Kendall; Weather

by John Buchan
Adapted for television in three parts by John Prebble
with James Maxwell as Sir Edward Leithen, Derek Godfrey as Lord Lamancha, Bernard Horsfall as John Palliser-Yeates, John Sharp as Lord Claybody, Roddy McMillan as Wattie Lithgow and Lally Bowers as Lady Claybody

Under the pseudonym John Macnab, three eminent men have risked their reputations by challenging a group of landowners to stop them poaching on their ground. Palliser-Yeates has already got his stag; Sir Edward Leithen has caught his salmon and they are planning Lord Lamancha's assault on Haripol... when Janet and Agatha Raden discover their identities.

BBC Scotland

Introduced by Harry Carpenter

The FA Cup Final
Barry Davies and John Motson report on the build-up to Saturday's big game between Manchester United, who are in a Wembley FA Cup Final for the fifth time, and Southampton from the Second Division, who have never played at Wembley.

The Middleweight Championship of Great Britain
Alan' Boom-Boom' Minter from Crawley defends the title he won from Kevin Finnegan last November. Billy Knight, the challenger from Walworth, three times an ABA champion and a Commonwealth gold medallist, has lost only one fight since turning professional in 1974. Last night's Mike Barrett promotion at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

World Ice Hockey Championship
The decisive match in the 1976 tournament from Katowice, Poland - with the Olympic champions, the Soviet Union, defending their world title.

(Friday at 10.45 pm: The ABA Championship Finals of 1976)

A programme in which Sue Lawley and Denis Tuohy talk to interesting people about themselves and their lives and look at events of the day which affect us, with Donald MacCormick and reporters John Pitman, David Lomax, Philip Tibenham, David Jessel, David Taylor, Vincent Hanna, Julian Mounter, Michael Delahaye