9.38 Science All Around. Clothing. FERGUS o'KELLY and ANN HEYNO investigate why scientific tests are only valid if they are fair tests, with the help of JULIA WATSON. Producer PETER BRATT
10.0 Merry-go-Round The Helper
10.23 It's Maths
5: Symmetry

(Repeat)

11.0 Engineering Craft Studies Combining the Principles
11.22 Music Time. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
In this new film, with music from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, all the characters are played by puppets. Voice of Drosselmeyer GEOFFREY BAYLDON Puppets ALAN PLATT
Film animation BURA AND HARDWICK Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT
11.45 General Studies
Technology: Space

Weather JACK SCOTT

Donny MacLeod , David Seymour and Marian Foster
Including the competition heats for Young Engineer for Britain

2.1 Words and Pictures
Up and Down and Around
2.18 Location Britain
Location 5 - Liverpool
2.40 Going to Work
What Employers Look For
Five trainees to choose from for two new jobs - who will get them? A new play with JANE BOOKER IAN GRANVILLE-BELL , ANGELA CURRAN ALAN IGBON , GEORGINE ANDERSON MARSHA FITZALAN , IAN CROSS
JAMES GARBUTT , RAYMOND MILLER Director PATRICK TUCKER
Series editor PAUL MITCHELL

A new seven-part cartoon series from Czechoslovakia. Fig is
Born Anna is given a small puppy and calls it Fig. But Fig grows big ... and bigger ... and bigger ... Story told by DERYCK GUYLER
Presented by DAPHNE JONES

by Norman Hunter
With Kenneth Williams

The Queen of Sypso-Sweetleigh loved her tea. So it was a national disaster when Brown Betty, her favourite teapot, got a chip on the spout and dribbled.

with Lesley Judd , Simon Groom and Christopher Wenner
Producer RENNY RYE
Assistant editor JOHN ADCOCK Editor BIDDY BAXTER
Blue Peter Fifteenth Book, 11.35, from bookshops

by OLIVER POSTGATE Gold
Pictures by PETER FIRMIN
Music by VERNON ELLIOTT

with Angela Rippon Weatherman

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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 film that make up the scene Nationwide.
Including Pigeonhole with Glyn Worsnip
Producers DAVID DICKINSON ANDREW TAUSSIG , KEN VASS Deputy editor DAVID LLOYD Editor HUGH Williams

The tenth of a series of 13 episodes, starring
Diane Cilento , Norman Rodway Edward Hardwicke
Christopher Gable , Denise Buckley and Sue Nicholls in Sleeping on the Grass by JOHN WILES
Donald Sanders disappears. As does a large amount of money from one of Clark's subsidiary companies. Diana discovers something else is missing ... a gun from Sanders's flat.
Series created by JOHN SICHEL Make-up artist JAN NETHERCOT
Costume designer TUDOR GEORGE Designer IAN RAWNSLEY
Director DAVID SULLIVAN PROUDFOOT Producer JOHN SICHEL BBC Birmingham
Theme music (RESL 56), from record shops

The Battle of Printing House Square: Behind The Times
Next week The Times, Britain's oldest newspaper and a national institution, is due to disappear along with The Sunday Times. The management has threatened to close down unless it can reach agreement with the powerful print unions.
Michael Cockerell has been filming the bitter confrontation between the two sides-that has already cost 12 million newspapers this year. His report from behind the scenes at Printing House Square reveals the nightly strife on the presses, the corrupt practices of Fleet Street and the real motives for The Times management's ultimatum.
Producer PHIL HARDING
Deputy editor ELWYN PARRY JONES Editor CHRISTOPHER CAPRON
(Analysis on Radio 4, Wed, 8.4.5 pm. Bottom Right-Hand Corner, ' The Times ' correspondence column: Fri R4 4.5 pm)

with Angela Rippon ; Weather

starring Tony Franciosa, Donna Mills
Hired by an attractive client to investigate the brutal murder of a friend, private detective Mark Higbie suspects that the murder is but one of several which the police are trying to cover up. Among the features of the killings is the fact that the victims are drained of blood. Also, the bodies bear marks of a giant spider...
Films: page 10
(First showing on British television)

explains the news and examines the issues from Britain and around the world. Presented by Denis Tuohy , Valerie Singleton and Donald MacCormick
Including News Headlines
Editor ROGER 1OLTON