6.40 Closing a Railway

7.5 Climates of the Past

Told by BERNARD CRIBBINS

with THORA HIRD
Mrs Pepperpot 's Year by ALF PR0YSEN
Today: Mrs Pepperpot 's Spring

A series of eight programmes
By plane to Egypt and by camel to the pyramids.

A cartoon series starring Inch High, the definitely different detective. He's stylish, he's witty and he's just one inch tall.

Introduced by ROY CASTLE and NORRIS MCWHIRTER who discover the fastest-slowest-strongest-highest-toughest anyone or anything that claims to be a record breaker.
Roy's special guest is David Wilkie , mbe, gold medallist in the Olympic 200m breast stroke and world record-holder for the event.
Designer STEPHAN PACZAI
Producer ALAN RUSSELL

Serial
(English transmitters only. First shown on BBC Cymru/Wales)

Weather BARBARA EDWARDS

For the next five days BBC outside broadcast cameras are at Britain's most beautiful race-course to bring you the principal races from this popular high-summer meeting.

2.0 Trundle Stakes (Handicap) (1 1/2m)

2.30 Molecomb Stakes (5f)

3.10 The Spillers Stewards Cup (Handicap) (6f)
£15,000 added prize money

3.45 Gordon Stakes (1 1/2m)

Introduced by Julian Wilson

A programme for children under 5 Today's story:
The Pedlar and his Caps Presenters
DELIA MORGAN , DON S SNCER
Pianist WILLIAM BLEZARD Designer ALAN SPALDING
Written and directed by judy WHITFIELD Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

A weekly series introduced by Johnny Morris
A magazine of stories about animals and the people involved with them - in the wild, in the zoo, or at home.
Producer MIKE BEYNON BBC Bristol
(Wildlife on One, 8.35 pm, tonight)

starring
Brian Cant with Toni Arthur , Chloe Ashcroft David Wood , Jonathan Cohen Spike Heatley , Alan Rushton Henry MacKenzie
Brian and company play away with music, songs, puzzles and comedy.
Musical director JONATHAN coheN Producer ANN PEAY
Director AVRIL PRICE

with Angela Rippon Weatherman

Britain's nightly mirror to the face of Britain.
Presented by Frank Bough
Reporters at large
LUKE CASEY, KEVIN COSGROVE BERNARD FALK , DIANE HARRON
JAMES HOGG , PATRICK STENSON MARTIN YOUNG
Deputy editor STUART WILKINSON Editor JOHN GAU

featuring The Mitchell Minstrels and The Television Toppers starring Ted Darling
Les Rawlings , Les Want
Rita Morris , Jane Marlow
Dorothy Ogden , Bob Hunter with special guests Keith Harris
The David Snell Trio
Choreography ROY GUNSON
Vocal arrangements and conductor GEORGE MITCHELL
Orchestrations ALAN BRISTOW Lighting BILL MILLAR
Sound ADRIAN BISHOP-LAGGETT
Designers IAN WATSON , PETER KINDRES Producer BRIAN WHITEHOUSE

Narrated by David Attenborough
Bandicoots and Desert Frogs
The middle of Australia is a vast desert: the ' dead heart' ... but when it rains the ' heart' is anything but dead-birds flock to waterholes, plants flourish and bloom, and even puddles come to life with thousands of tadpoles.
Even in the driest seasons there are still plenty of crawling, jumping, creeping creatures, sheltering from the heat in burrows or in rock crevices, emerging only in the cool of the night.
The ' dead heart' is very much alive with plants and animals with such bizarre names as ... bandicoots and desert frogs.
Photography PETER LEYDEN Producer ROBERT RAYMOND
Presented for television by ALAN CORMACK BBC Bristol

with Angela Rippon ; Weather

A comedy serial in seven episodes by David Nobbs
Starring Leonard Rossiter and Pauline Yates
with John Barron

Reggie Perrin decides that he needs a month's holiday, but all he gets is a nightmare afternoon in a safari park.
(Repeat)

Reggie Perrin needs a month's holiday, but all he gets is an afternoon in a safari park with his wife, daughter, son-in-law and their two 'tiny adults'.

In tonight's documentary Hugh Burnett meets some White Rhodesians around Bulawayo and Salisbury to explore the mood of the country and their feelings about the future.
Over 1,000 whites are now leaving each month - as the whirlwind of change rises over Southern Africa.
Film editor LES NEWMAN . Producer HUGH BURNETT

Robin Day in a series of eight programmes which looks at some of the major changes which have taken place in this country during the Queen's reign.
3: Attlee to Callaghan with The Rt Hon Tony Benn, MP and Peter Jenkins of The Guardian discussing the changing course of the Labour Party in general and asking in particular whatever happened to Social Democrats.
Director JAN FAIRER
Producer ANTONY rouse

with Bob Langley The Old Road
There is still one man who can guide a stage coach across the treacherous sands of Morecambe Bay and to the gateway to the Lake District.
Director PETER HERCOMBE