7.5 How to Build a Phage
7.30 Science: Bonding Theories
(VHF only)
9.38 Maths Workshop: Stage 2: Scattered Points
10.0 Merry-go-Round
Keep Up with the Times: 4
An eight-part cartoon adventure in the world of the eight-times table.
The Odyssey: 2. The Cyclops
Robert Erskine introduces some Greek Gods.
10.23 Exploring Science: Food Technology
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
You and Me Book 4 accompanies the morning programmes, 28p, from bookshops
11.0 Scan: M-way Impact: 2: Motorways and the Environment
11.22 Music Time: Programme 24
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 The Way We Were
2.1 Words and Pictures: Sing a Song
A series to encourage reading
2.18 Near and Far: Life Must Go On
2.40 The Electric Company: 7
A new 16-part reading series from The Children's Television Workshop, New York
A programme for children under 5
Story: "The Tortoise Plays a Trick"
Presenters this week Susan Mosco, Johnny Ball
The Princess's birthday is celebrated in a most unusual way.
Story told by Johnny Morris
by Diana Wynne-Jones (in five parts)
with Jack Watson
When Moril takes charge of the big ancient cwidder he does not realise how powerful its music can be.
Today: Clennen the Singer
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.
by Michael Bond
Narrated by Michael Hordern
Paddington's 'Blue Peter' Book, £1.75, from bookshops
with Peter Woods; Weatherman
Britain's most popular current affairs programme.
Presented this week 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
(Repeat)
The second of three special film reports by Julian Pettifer
When the West was won it was, above all, a family affair. Their struggle across a vast continent was an affirmation of family union - quite simply, they did it together; a victory for family integrity from which the ties emerged still stronger and deeper.
Today those ties are looser, the trail less certain. Millions of Americans are having a hard time plotting a shaky course through the apparent minefield of American Family Life.
As guidebooks they are reading by the millions: How to Make It With Another Person; Creative Intimacy; The Marriage Savers; Parent Effectiveness Training; Till Divorce do us Part; Children the Challenge and so on. Why is the family that once played, prayed and stayed together now fragmenting - what is the State of the Family Union in America today?
with Peter Woods; Weather
Starring Franco Nero, Tony Musante
At the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution Sergei Cowalski, a mercenary, is hired by mine owner Garcia to protect a silver consignment for Texas. At the mine the workers have taken control under their leader Eufemio, and meanwhile gambler Ricciolo makes his own plans to discover how the silver will cross the border.
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