A programme for children at home
Presenters this week, Miranda Connell, Rick Jones
Today's story: "Follow This Line" by Michael O'Leary
Illustrated by John Haslam

Oh we can play on the big bass drum,
And this is the music to it;
Boom-boom-boom goes the big bass drum,
And that's the way to do it!
Drums, cymbals, guitars, and a wobble board are some of the musical instruments Rick and Miranda make and play each day this week.
(to 11.20)

The whole of the final period of play direct from Headingley, Leeds

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(to 18.35)

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson and Peter Woods
with Martin Bell, Michael Blakey, Michael Clayton, Tom Mangold, Michael Sullivan, David Tindall, Richard Whitmore and the correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
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A film series about the untamed West
A pioneer settler and his two sons fighting to keep their hard-won cattle land in the lawless territory of California during the closing years of last century.

This week: Pony Alice
Johnny tangles with a very unusual young lady aged ten-and soon finds that she is a far tougher opponent than any outlaw!
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N.F. Simpson's weekly accident-prone look under the news, round the news, and just to one side of the news.
Introduced by Nancy Chuff as Angela Thorne
with World in Ferment reporters Jack Shepherd as Doug Searchbaker, Chris Champers as Dinsdale Landen
Resident expert, Gerald Pikestaff as John Bird
Resident celebrity, Madame Astoria as Irene Handl
Resident folk singers, Greta Forbes/Sultana Mustapha as Eleanor Bron
Guest wife, Patsy Rowlands

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A Horizon presentation of seven programmes on animal life

Ten per cent of the world's food is eaten each year by insects
Tonight's programme, the first of a new series, looks at the spectacular world of the insect.
Remarkable film sequences show their incredible variety, their camouflage, their intricate patterns of life and their sheer numbers.
There are an estimated billion billion insects in the world, and some scientists speculate that with their superb adaptability, just as they were the first living creatures on earth they will be the last; in fact-the Winners.
Produced by Time-Life

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A selection of the famous UPA cartoons
This week:

Prehistoric Eohippus
He's happy because he knows he will survive the Stone Age.

and
The Sleuth's Apprentice...
Case No. 600 - The Lost Duchess and he's happy because he knows where to find the missing Duchess.

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The return series

Four matches to play and a close finish in prospect as one of Britain's most promising young professionals represents The World and faces a top-class American in head-on competition.
Dave Marr, U.S.A. v. Peter Townsend, England at Muirfield
Prize-money:
$4,000 for the winner
$3,000 for the loser
Position after nine matches: U.S.A. 4 : The World 5

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The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests

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