Today's story: "Fly Away Peter" by Frank Dickens, illustrated by Ralph Steadman
With Chloe Ashcroft, Brian Cant

Numbers, like people, can commute: we know that 237 x 918 = 918 x 237 without working it out. But is all multiplication commutative?
Introduced by Alan Tammadge

(Repeated: Saturdays, 9.35 am, BBC1. For publications see p 14. This series, with the correspondence course - for details apply to National Extension College, 8 Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge - provides useful preparatory experience for Open University students)

with Peter Woods

Weather

In the race for today few of us spare enough time to listen - even to learn - from people who also know about yesterday, as they talk to the Man Alive reporters.

Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

The middle-class white liberals of Sausalito, California, were proud of the integrated schools where their own children could grow up side by side with black children of the nearby ghetto of Marin City. Then a black militant, Sidney Walton, was appointed principal of the local junior high school. He distributed his own book with an opening picture of himself, guerrilla-clad, pointing a gun over a pile of schoolbooks and captioned 'books or guns?'

Faced with the realities of black power, white parents feared for their children. Walton was fired. Liberal school-board members were forced to resign, parents withdrew children from school.

A liberal showpiece experiment ended as a racial confrontation, bringing to the surface deep, fundamental fears in the white middle-class community. The row goes on. The mood is one of tension - and despair for the future.

The first programme in a new series introduced by Jack Pizzey

In Britain today there are over five million dogs, nearly four million cats, about three million budgerigars; 300,000 horses, ponies, and donkeys; fish - nobody knows the exact total, but it's estimated at over 10 million.
Alligators, monkeys, turtles, bush babies and gerbils are just a few of the exotic pets kept by another 750,000 people in this country.
Looking after the health of all of them - the Veterinary Surgeon.
(Calling all pet owners: page 4)

by Arden Winch
Starring Anthony Hopkins as Danton, Alan Dobie as Robespierre
(Colour)
(Next week: Charles I)

The last of a further series of music quizzes
Tonight you can match your musical wits against Prunella Scales, Paul Jennings, Bernard Levin
Guest musician Julian Bream
Chairman Joseph Cooper

with Joan Bakewell, Michael Dean, Tony Bilbow, Sheridan Morley