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(English transmitters only. First shown on BBC Cymru/Wales)

Weather MICHAEL FISH

Including Family Matters with experts Dr David Delvin, Pat Fetch, Brian Jackson and Vincent Duggleby. Plus personalities of the day, and music.
BBC Birmingham

A See-Saw programme by PETER FIRMIN and Oliver POSTGATE
Bagpuss, an old cloth cat, lives with his friends in the window of Emily's shop ... where anything can happen.

Oxford v Cambridge for the Bowring Bowl .
This afternoon, Oxford's captain, PETER ENEVOLDSON , becomes the first man to play in five Varsity matches, as he leads his side out in the 99th confrontation between England's principal universities.
IAN PECK captains Cambridge for the second successive season, determined to make amends for last year's defeat and level the score at 43 wins each, with 13 draws.
Commentators at Twickenham
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH and BOB HILLER
Television presentation by BILL TAYLOR

Story: Rainy Day Things by VALERIE THAME Presenters
Chloe Ashcroft , Stuart McGugan

Peter Glaze and Don Maclean cause chaos and laughter when they go caravanning.

Comedy ... adventure ... cartoon, all packed into this all-action entertainment series. starring Fleegle, Drooper, Bingo and Snorky of Banana Splits Club.

by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Today John Woodvine tells A Sin of Omission
"A flat head rose up, and small, watery-blue eyes glittered with malevolent intent, while jaws opened to their fullest extent, and Mr Faversham was permitted to view a pink-lined cavern that was equipped with two yellow, pointed fangs..."

Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman

by the Labour Party
(Also on BBC2 at 10.50 pm)

with Angela Rippon and the BBC's reporters
Weatherman

by Jeremy Paul and Alan Gibson
starring Peter Firth as Dominick Hide, Pippa Guard as Ava, Caroline Langrishe as Jane and Patrick Magee as Caleb Line
AVA: You landed?
DOMINICK: Twice. It's safe. I have to find someone. I have friends to help me.
AVA: Friends? ...On the flipside? Do they know where you are from?

Ten programmes celebrating areas of excellence in the British arts. 8: George Shearing
' People refer to me sometimes as a blind pianist. I'm not, I'm a pianist who happens to be blind.'
GEORGE SHEARING is perhaps the most famous British jazz pianist of his time. In this profile he talks to Peter Clayton about his early years and plays, among others, his most famous composition ' Lullaby of Birdland '.
Film cameraman JOHN MCGLASHAN Film editor IAN PITCH
Series producer DAVID CHESHIRE Directed by robin LOUGH