6.40 The Victorian Reading Public

7.5 The Conduct of War

7.30 Diffraction in Action

9.38 Out of the Past Charles Dickens
Storyteller Extraordinary - Part 1 Written by MICHAEL HARDWICK AND MOLLIE HARDWICK
10.0 Merry-go-Round Full Circle
This is the last of three sex education programmes for eight- and nine-year-olds in schools. It deals with conception, the sexual differences between male and female bodies and the function of the sex organs. It also shows the care of babies by their parents.
Introduced by RICHARD CARPENTER With MELISSA DOCKER Producer CLAIRE CHOVIL
10.25-10.45 20th-century History Mr Kennedy and Mr Khrushchev
11.0 Watch: Fishing
11.18 Going to Work
Painting and Decorating
11.40 Living in a Developing Country: Ghana. City

Dechrau Canmol : hymn singing
(English transmitters only. First shown on BBC Cymru/Wales)

Weather BILL GILES

with DONNY MACLEOD , DAVID SEYMOUR MARIAN FOSTER and JAN LEEMING including The Music Makers This week:
James Tyler , lute and banjo

With MAGGIE HENDERSON and FRED HARRIS
Book, It's Ragtime, 55p, from bookshops

You and Me Book 5, 50p, from bookshops

2.14 Encounter: Italy
An Italian Studies series 4: A Start in Life?
Some young Italians' prospects: schooldays in a fishing village; life and child labour in old Naples; the impact of tourism in the south. Commentary SEAN BARRETT Producer JOHN PRESCOTT THOMAS
2.32 Merry-go-Round
It's All Right: part 4
2.40 TV Club: Danger!
Hazards of hang-gliding, fire-fighting and the farm as well as the dangers in your own home. With DAWN
PERLLMAN CHRIS FAIRBANK and TED MOULT Sketches by BARRY TOOK Producer MORTON SURGUY

JULIAN WILSON introduces the day's big race from one of Britain's most historic courses.
3.15 The Chester Vase (1m 4f 65yds)
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN
JIMMY LINDLEY , JOHN HANMER
Television presentation NICK HUNTER

Story: Quiet Please!
Written by JUDY WHITFIELD
Guest storyteller Derek Griffiths Presenters
Sarah Long , David Hargreaves

An action-packed cartoon series

Stop with Peter Purves and Joanne Watson Watch
Table Tennis: former international ANN JONES with some promising junior players.
Athletics and Swimming: 13-year-old JANE PARRY is an international in both sports.
Skateboarding: SIMON NAPPER with another tip and news, views and results
Director MIKE ADLEY
Producer HAZEL LEWTHWAITE BBC Manchester

with Angela Rippon ; Weatherman

Presented live each weekday evening by FRANK BOUGH , SUE LAWLEY, VALERIE SINGLETON , JOHN STAPLETON and BOB WELLINGS with contributions from BBC studios throughout the country.
Reporters: LUKE CASEY, KEVIN COSGROVE , DIANE HARRON , JAMES HOGG , BILL KERR ELLIOTT , PATRICK STENSON , NICHOLAS WOOLLEY and MARTIN YOUNG.
Editor GORDON WATTS

A series in 13 episodes
Colette O'Neil , Neil Stacy
Tom Watson and Patrick Malahide in 6: Win a Few, Lose a Fewby SEAN HIGNETT
Anderson's private and professional lives get entangled when he snatches a 'hot property' from under the noses of the national press.
Series created by PETER MAY and ALASTAIR BALFOUR Script editor MAGGIE ALLEN Designer ARCHIE CLARK
Producer RODERICK GRAHAM
Director JOHN BRUCE. BBC Scotland

with Angela Rippon ; Weather

Days of Hope by JIM ALLEN
Last of four dramas from the Great War to the General Strike. 1926: General Strike
'I don't care a hang for any government or army or navy. They can come along with their bayonets. Bayonets don't cut coal.'
(A. j. COOK, Miners' Secretary)
' All the workers in this country have got to take reductions in wages to help put industry on its feet.'
(STANLEY BALDWIN , Prime Minister) , , ,
Producer TONY GARNETT
Director KENNETH LOACH

Life for the Matthews family between the Great War and the General Strike. Britain's workforce is idle as the General Strike takes hold.

Including News Headlines