6.40 Genetic Engineering

7.5 States of Mind

7.30 Introductory Electronics

(to 7.55)

9.8 Going to Work The Modern Office
How far has modern technology changed the nature of office work? Narrator DAVID SIMMONS Producer JOHN ROGERS
Series producer PAUL MITCHELL

A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them.

10.15 Music Time
Feet the Beat: 4
10.38 Twentieth-Century History Boom and Bust
11.0 Merry-go-Round At the Doctor's
A young patient visits her GP, presenter JANE COLLINS does an experiment with blood, and we see a blood sample being taken. Producer ROSANNA HIBBERT
Series producer EDWARD HAYWARD
11.23 Talkabout
The Foolish Tortoise
11.42 General Studies
Poetry - Dead or Alive? 1: Eternal Lines
Has poetry anything to say to us in today's world, or is it a defunct art, both dreary and dated? This first in a two-programme unit looks into the matter, with reference to poetry of the past and present. Introduced by BRIAN PATTEN with ROGER WODDIS , ROGER MCGOUGH and the MIKE WESTBROOK BRASS BAND Producer JUDITH MILES

Archive footage illustrates this focus on the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United States until the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

with Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart
Weather JACK SCOTT

(London and SE only: Financial
Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)

with Donny MacLeod
Marian Foster and Bob Langley
The lunchtime programme includes Alive and Kicking, the fourth in a weekly series of lessons in self-protection.
Today's special guest is Pam Ayres , who'll unveil ' The Ballad of Bill Spink 's Bedstead '.
(Pam Ayres joins Des O'Connor Tonight on BBC2 at 8.10)

2.1 Words and Pictures
The King's Birthday
2.18 Read On!
Just Imagine!
2.40 Exploring Science
It's Only Water

A programme for people with hearing problems.
Introduced by Maggie Woolley and Martin Colville

A series of ten programmes presented by Delia Smith.
Book (same title), £3.75, from retailers

Story: The Patchwork Bear by Christopher Walker

with Kenneth Williams
Agaton Sax and Lispington's Grandfather Clock by NILS OLOF-FRANZEN
There's a suspicious helicopter circling above Agaton Sax 's home! Inspector Lispington's muffins could be poisoned and neither of them know about their friend Andreas Kark 's new invention which, in the hands of those arch-villains Herr Gustafson and Julius Mosca , could topple governments. 1: Double Attack

A picture puzzle series starring Adrian Hedley and Janet Ellis.
With Tommy Boyd.
Buns, bananas, bread and butter, baps, beef and bumpets are all a clue to one of the letters. Bumpets?
(Clive Doig's puzzles pp 93 and 94)

Expedition Japan Hot Stuff!
Peter takes a bath in a pool of volcanic mud, Simon is buried up to his neck in scorching sand (a recognised cure for hysterics!) and Sarah boils an egg in a hellpool where the water bubbles at 176°F! The setting is Beppu in southern Japan where the town lives in the shadow of one of the world's most dangerous active volcanoes: Mount Aso.
Blue Peter: Eighteenth Book, £1.95, from retailers
Back pages: 94

with Richard Baker Weatherman

Frank Bough , Sue Lawley
Richard Kershaw , Hugh Scully and Sue Cook are the team that each weekday presents the features and films that make up the scene Nationwide.
Including Watchdog presented by HUGH SCULLY
Producers LINO FERRARI, PHIL HARDING MIKE HOGAN
RICHARD TAIT Deputy editor ANDREW TAUSSIG Editor ROGER BOLTON

Presented by David Dimbleby
The Other Ruling Class
With the Conservative Party Conference starting in Blackpool tomorrow, Panorama reports on the floating voters, the people who put Mrs Thatcher into power at the last election. What sort of people are they? What do they think of their choice now, midway through the Tory Government? And who would they vote for next?
Producer DAVID GRAHAM
Deputy editor ELWYN PARRY JONES
Editor GEORGE CAREY

with John Humphrys and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman

with Barry Norman
A weekly round-up of news, reviews and interviews from the cinema world.
Mel Brooks directs and stars in History of the World - Part 1, an irreverent saga of man's evolvement from the dawn of creation to the French Revolution.
William Hurt plays The Janitor whose life becomes endangered after a murder involves him with glamorous TV reporter Sigourney Weaver.
American teenage actress Brooke Shields comments on her life as an international star, prior to the opening of her latest film Endless Love.
Director BRUCE THOMPSON Producer MARGARET SHARP