6.40 Isotopes in Geology

7.5 Computing: Noughts and Crosses: 1

7.30 Maths: Numerical Methods

Story: The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss
Presenters Sarah Long , Ben Bazell

Book, Play School Ready to Play, £1.50, from bookshops. Play On (record REC 332, cassette ZCM 332); Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away (record REC 242, cassette MRMC 004), from record shops

4.50 Molluscan Evolution

5.15 Optical Microscopy

5.40 Admission to the OU Explained

6.5 Revolutions of 1848

6.30 Mugging

A Century in the Saddle
Early one morning last summer 28 cyclists set out to ride a Century - 100 miles along some of the prettiest highways and byways in England between Oxford and Coventry. But this was no ordinary century-the riders were mounted on machines dating back 100 years ! or more, known as Ordinaries, or, more commonly, as ' Penny Far-things '. The event commemorated the founding of the Southern Veteran Cycle Club 25 years ago and was organised by John ' Pinky ' Pinkerton.
Film editor JOHN RossER Producer ROGER CASSTLES

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A third series of ten programmes presented by Delia Smith
The simplest meal can be greatly enhanced by choosing the right first course. Delia Smith suggests a number of appetising and easy-to-make starters, and also demonstrates how to make a delicious country pate.
COOKERY COURSE: 3 - page 85
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' Gentle Shakespeare ' ... ' Sweet Swan of Avon'? or 'The drunken illiterate clown of Stratford-upon-Avon'?
Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? Could this be, as Henry James remarked, ' the biggest and most successful fraud ever practised upon a patient world'? On his birthday, the programme explores the facts we have about Shakespeare. Are there enough to confirm his authorship? Mark Twain and Freud didn't think so. Who else could have written the works of the Bard?
Robert Robinson talks to Professor Sam Schoenbaum of the University of Maryland about Shakespeare and to supporters of the many alternative candidates: Francis Bacon , Edward de Vere and Christopher Marlowe.
Director TONY TYLEY
Producer ADAM LOW
Woddis On ... page 85

starring
Sophia Loren , Anthony Quinn
One of the director's most unusual films, part Western, part theatrical comedy - set in the American midWest of the 1880s. A group of touring hellraisers earn their living entertaining in theatres and saloons. But in Cheyenne, the dramas become more frantic off-stige as the group is involved in romance, poker games and encounters with gunmen and Indians.
Sereenplay by DUDLEY NICHOLS. WALTER BERNSTEIN < based on the novel by LOUIS L'AMOUR Produced by CARLO PONTI , MARCELLO CIROSI
Directed by GEORGE CUKOR. Films: page 12

Will the Baby be All Right?
Childbirth has become much safer over the last 20 years. Nevertheless in Britain this year 11,000 babies will die and 30,000 will be born handicapped. Eighteen months ago Man Alive filmed some of the human stories behind these statistics. Tonight as a sequel we bring together doctors, midwives and, most important of all, parents.
Nick Ross chairs a discussion which examines the question: Can these deaths and handicaps be prevented, and, if so, how?
Do the answers lie in higher expenditure, higher technology and more maternity wards? Or do they lie in a fundamental shift, not in money priorities, but in attitudes?
Studio director PIETER MORPURGO Producer LOUISE PANTON Editor tim SLESSOR

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