9.38 Science All Around: Friction
Fergus O'Kelly and Ann Heyno discover some amazing things that prove you can't live without friction.

10.0 Merry-go-Round: The Detectives
Max Mason goes to train as an investigator and Shaw Taylor gets caught redhanded.

10.23 It's Maths!: Decimals
If a man is 1.79m tall, is the '7' tens or tenths? Elaine Donnelly and David Warwick investigate.

11.22 Music Time
Kathryn Harries and Peter Combe introduce some different tune shapes.

11.45 General Studies: Alternatives
A lecture about technology before an invited audience at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, given by Dr David E.H. Jones, Guest Research Fellow in Chemical Physics.

Weather KEITH BEST

Live and lively every day-television's most original magazine programme with the accent on new ideas, new talking points, star guests and good conversation. Presented live from the lobby of the BBC's Broadcasting Centre in Birmingham by Donny MacLeod , David Seymour Marian Foster and Jan Leeming including MacLeod's Mysteries - a new and sometimes spine-chilling look at some of the most intriguing unsolved human riddles of all time.
Editor TERRY DOBSON

2.1 Words and Pictures: Tony and his Friends
A new series for young children.
Tony, a good-natured lion, agrees when a bird asks for some hair to build a nest. Unfortunately more than one bird takes advantage of his generosity.

2.18 British Social History: The Iron Road

2.40 Going to Work: People Matter

from Knighton, Leicester
In this Epiphany programme from the Church of St Mary Magdalene, GEOFFREY WHEELER talks to local people about their life and faith and the hymns they like to sing.

Told by MICHAEL FLANDERS

The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor
Told by Paul Jones
Long ago, in the city of Baghdad, there lived a man called Sinbad. One day he decided to travel and see the world so he bought himself a ship. He made so many voyages and had so many adventures that he became known as Sinbad the Sailor.
A cartoon film made by CZECHOSLOVAK FILMEXPORT

Written by Roger Simpson.
An adventure story in 13 episodes set in New Zealand in the 1860s.
When his father doesn't return from the goldfields, Scott Hunter is so determined to search for him that he stows away on a supply dray. Suddenly two bandits appear and start to attack. Will they discover Scott?

with John Noakes, Peter Purves and Lesley Judd
During the Second World War the skies of Britain were criss-crossed with beams of light searching out the enemy aircraft. Today one of those searchlights, on its way to the RAF Museum in Hendon, makes a lightning visit to spotlight the Television Centre.

Blue Peter Fourteenth Book, £1.25, from bookshops

Based on the characters created by ALEX GRAHAM
Puppies' Tale

with Angela Rippon ; Weatherman

Presented live from London and the BBC studios around Britain.
Frank Bough, Sue Lawley, Valerie Singleton , John Stapleton and Bob Wellings are the team that bring you Britain's most watched current affairs programme. Each weekday evening they present analysis of topical events plus the features and films that make up the scene Nationwide, including
Pigeonhole with Richard Stilgoe
Producers RONALD NEIL , ANDREW TAUSSIG GORDON WATTS , HUGH WILLIAMS
Deputy editor STUART WILKINSON
Editor JOHN GAU

Reporting on the stories that matter and asking the questions that need to be asked. Introduced by Charles Wheeler
The Panorama correspondents at home and abroad are
MICHAEL COCKERELL , DAVID TAYLOR RICHARD LINDLEY , TOM MANGOLD and PHILIP TIBENHAM
Assistant editor ELWYN PARRY JONES
Editor CHRISTOPHER CAPRON

with Angela Rippon and the BBC's reporters
Weather

A major new six-part fictional series telling an explosive story of political intrigue and human drama, and of the men and women who use and abuse power in the capital of the most powerful nation on earth. starring
Episode 4
The death of ex-President Esker Anderson re-unites CIA Director Bill Martin and his wife Linda. Meanwhile, a blocked diplomatic appointment and an attempt to smear an anti-war activist further undermine the public image of Monckton's administration.
Written by DAVID W. RINTELS and ERIC BERCOVICI
Based on The Company hv JOHN EHRLICHMAN
Produced by NORMAN POWELL
Directed by GARY NELSON