6.40 Design for Science Teaching

7.5 Gloriana

7.30 Conflict in the Family

(UHF only)

Weather Michael Fish

Tony Bilbow presents his popular weekly feature Film Focus: a searching look at the movie world; previews; new releases; and interviews with personalities in front of and behind the camera. Today Bilbow pays tribute to the genius of the late Peter Sellers and includes extracts from an interview Sellers recorded for Pebble Mill at One at this year's Cannes Film Festival, only two months before his death.

Music from Maggie Moon

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(Shown on BBC2 at 11.0 am)

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A serial in three parts
The Gang visits an animal park and begin to uncover a plot involving a chimpanzee.
A D'Angelo/Bullock/Allen production
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with Simon Groom, Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan

Today, Blue Peter's new boy makes his first-ever appearance on the programme. Think you've seen him before? You probably have, if you watched the "King Cinder" series, where Peter Duncan played the dare-devil speedway fanatic Kerry. Peter's keen to get into more action in "Blue Peter", and today he has a go at navigating Keying II, a 20-metre Chinese sailing junk, up the River Thames. In the studio there's the first-ever television appearance of Britain's record-breaking litter of 17 poodle pups.

with John Edmunds

Weatherman

With FRANK BOUGH, SUE LAWLEY RICHARD KERSHAW , HUGH SCULLY and SUE COOK
Including tonight Grass Roots
Presented this week by Gillian Miles from Spotlight South West in Plymouth

Introduced by Jimmy Savile, OBE
Legs & Co

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Terry Wogan hosts the comedy quiz game in which contestants attempt to match their 'blanks' with star guests: Paul Daniels, John Junkin, Barbara Kelly, Maureen Lipman, Patrick Moore, Madeline Smith.

Presented by arrangement with Goodson-Todman Inc and Talbot TV Ltd

by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne
with Derek Fowlds

Jim Hacker is in charge of the President of Buranda's official visit and, to the disapproval of Sir Humphrey Appleby, turns it to party political advantage.
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(First shown on BBC2)

with Jan Leeming and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman

A serial in 12 episodes by ANDREA NEWMAN starring with and 2: Outline Consent - October 1956 ' You're a happily married man and I'm your bit on the side. So we sign the Rule Book. I don't tell you and you don't ask. I promise not to rock the marital boat and we go on as long as it lasts and no one gets hurt.'
Programme adviser CHARLES PRICE
Designers PETER BLACKER ,COLIN SHAW Produced by GEORGE GALLACCIO Directed by KENNY MCBAIN

What was special about the ancient Greeks? What did they do that still matters today? In this four-part series, the distinguished Greek scholar, Sir Kenneth Dover, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the producer of the series, Christopher Burstall, travel together in the ancient Greek world of South Italy, Sicily, the Aegean islands and the heartland of Greece itself. They set out to explore the achievements of the daring, resolute and thoughtful people who lived there 2,500 years ago, and whose deeds, words and art have shaped the course of life today.

With Janet Suzman as Clytaemnestra, Stephen Murray as Thucydides, Freddie Jones as Socrates, Brewster Mason as Herodotus, in scenes from works by Greek dramatists, historians and thinkers

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with Russell Harty

Frederick Forsyth is the phenomenally successful author of such books as The Day of the Jackal and The Dogs of War. He has come back from Ireland to live in Britain and tonight he talks about his book The Devil's Alternative.

Plus Yuri Krotkov, who worked for the Russian secret service, defected to the West, and has now used his intimate knowledge of the Russian leadership to write a highly-acclaimed book about Boris Pasternak, The Nobel Prize.