7.5 Molecular Evolution

7.30 Geochemistry

(UHF only)

9.38 Countdown: Lucky Jim .
10.0 Merry-go-Round
From Stage-Coach to Steam Engine by RAMONA-ANN HAMBLJNG .
10.23 Maths Workshop: Stage 1 Pattern and Shape

11.0 USA: New York
11.22 Music Time: Programme 1 .
11.45 General Studies Choices for Tomorrow
Water, Water ... : written and presented by DAVID BELLAMY Producer MIKE WEATHERLEY

Weather BILL GILES

Bob Langley , Donny MacLeod , David Seymour , Marian Foster and Jan Leeming - live from the entrance hall of the BBC Broadcasting Centre in Birmingham, including Anything for a Laugh
Editor TERRY DOBSON

2.1 Words and Pictures
A series to encourage reading. Mighty Monsters
2.18 British Social History
The Shadow of the Workhouse .
2.40 Going to Work: Applying for a Job. A Kind of Hope a new play by BILL LYONS
With PETER DUNCAN , TESSA WYATT GODFREY JAMES , MARJIE LAWRENCE CLARE SUTCLIFFE , WILLIAM MOORE Producer ROY THOMPSON Editor PAUL MITCHELL

David and Paul

A programme for children under 5

The lazy law-man's at it again, look out for trouble.

with Ann Morrish
Una and Grubstreet by PRUDENCE ANDREW (three parts) Una has no mother and only one friend. Now her father is going on holiday without her. If only she could have a baby brother like little Christopher Heaven - especially since his mother doesn't seem to love him.
Today: The Holiday

Expedition Brunei with John Noakes, Peter Purves, Lesley Judd

In a land of contrasts tribal hunters stalk their prey a mere 100 miles from Brunei's sophisticated natural gas plant. The men of the Punan tribe give John a lesson on their deadly blow-pipes.

Blue Peter Thirteenth Book, £1.00. from bookshops

A series of seven programmes by BRIAN FINCH featuring
2 : The Phantom of the Palace
When Melvyn and Bogie decide to stay the night in the Palace, Plank and The Kid get involved with frightening results.
Designer PETER MAVIUS Producer JOHN BUTTERY Director TONY HARRISON BBC Manchester

with Richard Baker Weatherman

Britain's most popular current affairs programme.
Presented this week by Michael Barratt , Frank Bough
Dilys Morgan , Valerie Singleton and Bob Wellings
Producers RONALD NEIL , GORDON WATTS and HUGH WILLIAMS
Deputy editor STUART WILKINSON Editor JOHN GAU
NATIONWIDE
CAROL COMPETITION
Compose your own Christmas carol and sing it live on Nationwide television. That's the offer being made this week to school-children all over the country. Entries, limited to two per school, are to be sent through your school, and must be accompanied by this entry form,
Minimum requirements:
Top line and lyrics
Closing date: 31 October
Maximum duration of carol: 21 mlns
The final will be on Wednesday 22 December: more details will be given on Nationwide. Send your entry to Nationwide, BBCtv, Wood Lane, London W12 8QT,

A series in 16 episodes
3: My Patient by SUSAN PLEAT starring Julie Dawn Cole and Clare Clifford with Patricia Denys and Linda Polan
Jo is committed to nursing in the community; Shirley in the hospital. Through Mrs Dawson Jo has a chance to see what both hospital and Shirley have to offer ...
Adviser CHRISTINE GREEN, SRN, hv Designer TIM DANN
Producer RON CRADDOCK
Director TRISTAN DE VERE COLE BBC Birmingham

Introduced by David Dimbleby

The Panorama correspondents at home and abroad are Michael Cockerell, Richard Lindley, Tom Mangold, Julian Mounter, Julian Pettifer

with Richard Baker ; Weather

A season of films starring the internationally acclaimed British actor. Tonight with Stanley Baker , Jacqueline Sassard Michael York , Vivien Merchant
Delphine Seyrig , Alexander Knox A complex web of relationships is revealed when an Oxford undergraduate is killed in a car crash.
Director JOSEPH LOSEY. Films: page 21
(Thursday, BBC2 at 9.0 pm, Dirk Bogarde in Death in Venice)