Weather MICHAEL FISH
including Medicine Matters with Dr David Delvin
Editor JIM DUMIGHAN
CARMEN MUNRO introduces rhymes and counting games and tells a story. A Country Picture
Serial
(English transmitters only. First shown on BBC Cymru/Wales)
3.53 Regional News (exc London)
Heat Wave (Repeal)
with Hannah Gordon The Snow Kitten by NINA WARNER HOOKE
2:Miss Coker's. Tragedy
Michael Rodd asks questions based on scenes from Sword in the Stone, Hooper, Flash the Sheep-dog and Pete's Dragon.
Looking for the answers will be contestants from Kirkby Lonsdale Grammar School and Cartmel Priory School, Grange Over Sands. There will also be one of the top entries from the Young Film-makers' Competition.
BBC Manchester
with Roy Castle and Norris McWhirter explores the first - fastest - highest - heaviest - strongest - smallest - laziest anything or anyone with a place in the record books.
In New Zealand, Roy meets Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary , and the studio audience sees a new world record attempt for parallel-bar dips.
with Kenneth Kendall Weatherman
Presented each weekday evening by FRANK BOUGH , SUE LAWLEY
HUGH SCULLY , JOHN STAPLETON and BOB WELLINGS with contributions from BBC studios throughout the country. Also, from far and near, the programme's team of reporters LUKE CASEY , BERNARD CLARK , KEVIN COSGROVE , TONY FRANCIS , DIANE HARRON , JAMES HOGG , BILL KERR ELLIOTT, NICHOLAS WOOLLEY , GLYN WORSNIP and MARTIN YOUNG bring you films and features that reflect the way life is Nationwide.
James Burke takes a look at 2,000 years of human ingenuity. In the eighth of ten historical detective stories, he searches for the clues that link yesterday's amazing inventions to our modern-day world. This week he asks: 'What's the connection between Napoleon's chef and air-conditioning, or between the Munich Beer Festival and the Edwardian picnic - and how did that connection put a man on the moon?'
Guest star Richard Kelton Taylor 'Guzzler' Bennett
with Kenneth Kendall ; Weather
by Mike Stott
Soldiers Talking, Cleanly is one man's view of the British Army in Germany - the social life, discipline, drink, women and, occasionally, the defence of the West.
The Coca-Cola International from Wembley Arena
The World Champions, USSR, with Romania, Hungary, USA, Canada and Great Britain are the teams taking part in this ' mini' World Cup competition. Last year's winners. the Soviet Union, will again be favourites, but must face the rising challenge of the USA, who did so well in the recent World Championships.
Organised by the British Amateur Gymnastics Association.
Commentators RON PICKERING and ALAN WEEKS
Producer JOHN SHREWSBURY