6.40 The Parliamentary Expenditure Committee

7.5 ABC Kansas City: 3

7.30 Concorde Case Study: 3

9.0 A Good Job with Prospects Laboratory Work

9.30 Biology: Natural Selection

9.52 Communicate! 9: A Short Story
The Irish writer, Frank O'Connor, chose 'themes' for his short stories direct from life. 'Masculine Protest' in which a 12-year-old boy runs away from home, is partly based on his own son.
Series producer Andree MOLYNEUX Producer BRUCE JAMSON

10.15 Music Time: Lieutenant Kije: 2
More music by Prokofiev played by the orchestra, and illustrated with puppets. Presenters KATHRYN HARRIES , PETER COMBE With THE LONDON SCHOOLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conductor FREDERICK APPLEWHITE Animation BURA AND HARDWICK, Puppets and direction ALAN PLATT Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT
Music from the series (record REC 362, cassette ZCM 362) from record shops

10.38 Maths Topics: Statistics: 4

11.0 Merry-go-Round: Ceremonies
Ceremonies sum up the life and the feelings of a community, and often they give it an excuse for enjoyment too.
Produced by JULIET MILLER

(Repeat)
Book 14 (same title) £1.00, from bookshops

General Studies: Sculpture
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Weather Michael Fish

with Donny MacLeod, Marian Foster, Bob Langley and Bob Hall
Meet The Medal Chasers: Olympic competitors talk about their hopes and aspirations as they prepare to chase gold at the Moscow Games.
Today's guest: shotputter Geoff Capes
BBC Birmingham

2.1 Words and Pictures: Who Took the Farmer's Hat?
(Rpt)

2.18 Japan - The Crowded Islands: Too Far, Too Fast?
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2.40 Going to Work: Council Work
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from Grantham, Lincolnshire

One more step; Steal away: Fight the good fight (Duke Street); Cross over the road; Glad that I live am I (Water-End): He made me; Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton); My song is love unknown (Love Unknown)

(Shown yesterday at 6.40, not Scotland or Wales)

The poem this week is "Slowly" by James Reeves, illustrated by Nancy Petley-Jones
Story: "The Early Birthday Present" by Elizabeth McDonald
Photographs by James Matthew-Joyce

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by Gillian Cross
with Paul Copley

When Denny's Gran is taken into hospital, he is so scared of being put in a Children's Home that he runs away. He meets an Indian boy, who shows him an old house where he can hide, and for the moment Denny is safe. That is, until a little girl called Tracy starts poking her nose in.
Today: part 1

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with Simon Groom, Christopher Wenner, Tina Heath and a special programme for St Patrick's Day.
Book 16 (same title) £1.50 from bookshops

A Spot of Decorating by MICHAEL BOND
Narrated by MICHAEL HORDERN

with Richard Whitmore; Weatherman

Presented live from London and the BBC studios around Britain. Frank Bough, Sue
Lawley Hugh Scully , 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.

In 1973, British surgeons stopped doing heart transplants on Government advice. But this year there have been more of the controversial and expensive operations than ever before. Can we afford them? Michael Cockerell reports on why heart transplants are back in fashion and examines their true cost.

And for the first time, Dr Christiaan Barnard, the pioneer of heart transplants, talks about his new revolutionary operation to transplant a second heart alongside the patient's original one. He believes that British surgeons are using the wrong methods.

with Peter Woods ; Weatherman

starring Martin Landau, Jane Alexander
Broken by two years in a Viet Cong prison, Johnny Bristol is released and sent back to an army hospital. Gradually he tries to reassemble his life-with the help of a nurse, whom he loves. His most important mission is to find his home town in Vermont - but it appears to have vanished from the face of the earth. Johnny is convinced that it is an army conspiracy and determines to discover the truth.
Films: p 19 (First showing on British television)

Presented by Barry Norman
Kramer vs Kramer: tonight's royal film, already nominated for nine Oscars, stars Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep in a modern-day drama about separation, divorce and child custody.
Electric Horseman: Robert Red-ford plays Sonny Steele , ex-world champion cowboy turned horse thief, and Jane Fonda the TV reporter who pursues him across America's wild, desolate terrain.
Silver Dream Racer: David Essex , returning to the screen after a six-year absence, talks about his role as an aspiring champion motorcycle rider, in a love story set around international race tracks.
Director JANE LUSH
Producer MARGARET SHARP

The first of five programmes
Everyone has ancestors but few of us know much about them. Were they merchants or craftsmenroundheads or cavaliers, Normans or Saxons? How far can you trace your family tree? Presented by GORDON HONEYCOMBE and based on his search into his family history.
Producer BRYN BROOKS ( First shown on BBC2)
Book, Discovering Your Family History, hardback £5.75, paperback £3.50 from bookshops