Science: The Planet Earth

8.55 Orchestra
Six programmes tracing the evolution of the modern symphony orchestra. 4: Romantic
9.26 Twentieth-Century History
Britain Alone: The fall of Europe to Nazi Germany was swift and unexpected. From June 1940 Britain was fighting alone.
9.48 Mathscore Two 7: S for Symmetry
ELAINE DONNELLY and ROGER SLOMAN investigate half-turn symmetry. Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE
10.10 Look and Read
The Boy from Space 4: In Danger! by RICHARD CARPENTER
Presenters PHIL CHENEY and CHARLES COLLINGWOOD
Director PAT FARRINGTON
10.35 Geography Casebook: Britain Inner City Part 2: The second of two film reports on how Glasgow has been redeveloped since the war. Producer LEN BROWN
11.0 Watch. Robin Hood
11.17 Brazil
Drought on the Land: Life in a rural community in north-east Brazil stricken by a severe drought. Producer LEN BROWN
11.40 History 11-13. The Middle Ages. 2: The Castle
RICHARD BURROWS shows how castles had changed their form and function by the later Middle Ages.
Producer JILL SHEPPARD
12.3 pm Bellamy's New World
Eight films exploring America and its botanical history.
4: If You Go Down to the Woods ...
Presenter DR DAVID BELLAMY
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 270
12.35 Inside Japan
A series of ten films on contemporary Japan. 4: The Company Comes First: The Managers
1.5 Maths Help
A series for adults studying maths to O-level. Geometry II.
1.19 Science Topics. Fertilisation
Fertilisation in plants and animals is shown using a variety of special film including views inside the human body.
Series producer PETER BRATT
1.40 Let's See - Your Health
1: What Am I Made Of? How are we able to bend, breathe and run so fast? Producer MARIANNE BAIRD
2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs wants to join in on Cosmo's game with JENI BARNETT - but they won't let him. Also the number five and the song 'Five in a bed'. Book: Alex and Roy Producer RICHARD CALLANAN
2.15 Near and Far Bars of Tin
Mining and producing this much-needed metal involves people, international networks, risks and costs. Producer ROBIN GWYN
2.40 Look, Look and Look Again Living Images
A class of Yorkshire children use a living model to bring to life a character from fiction, and then try their hand at figure drawing.

John Tidmarsh narrates the schools history programme. This edition looks at how Britain fought Germany alone after the fall of Europe in June 1940.

The Embassy World Indoor
Bowls Championship from Coatbridge
Indoor Bowling Club
The first day's play where 16 players compete for the first prize of £5,000. Coverage from this afternoon's match between defending World Indoor Champion Bob Sutherland (Scotland) and Sammy Allen (Northern Ireland).
This morning Edwin Chok (Hong Kong) played Cliff Simpson (England) in the first match of the Championship.
Commentators DOUGIE DONNELLY
DAVID RHYS JONES, DAVID BRYANT
GRAHAM HOWARD , JIMMY DAVIDSON (Further coverage tonight at 11.15 pm)

with subtitles, followed by Weather

An award-winning natural history in six parts celebrating animals in action, narrated by Andrew Sachs
5: Signs and Signals ,
Many have tried 'talking to animals but what is the nature of their languages?
During the first half of this century,
Karl von Frisch deciphered the code of the honey bees' dance, Konrad Lorenz revealed the meaning of courtship rituals in wildfowl, and Niko Tinbergen devised tests to demonstrate the significance of signals displayed when fish and birds communicate among themselves.
Music EDWARD WILLIAMS
Photography JIM SAUNDERS
HUGH MILES .RODGER JACKMAN
Written and produced by JOHN SPARKS BBC Bristol
Book (same title) il2.95 from booksellers

Surface-to-surface missiles don't quench thirst nor do they irrigate the land. Yet in the imaginary country ot this animated film, missiles are a top priority.
Produced by the NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA

A series of nine programmes Episode 5 by JENNY MCDADE
Alan is feeling left out of the four-some. Tucker and Allison have an idea that might just cheer him up.
Producer DAVID HARGREAVES
Director MARGIE BARBOUR

Four films of early exploration introduced from the Royal Geographical Society by Duncan Carse. 2: Pearls and Savages (1921)
This film (some of the first ever to be shot in the South Seas) is the story of an early expedition to 'the vast mystery island of Papua, inhabited by savages, largely untrodden by white men'. The commentary demonstrates well the flavour of the period. The expedition filmed pearl divers in action and the arrival of the first sea-planes ever to be seen in Papua. They witnessed spectacular dance ceremonies, grotesquely-masked witch doctors and finally, pressing ever deeper into 'the lawless realms of cannibalism', they discovered a real bonanza. Stuffed human heads! Narrator Bruce Barry
Another archive winner (DAILY MAIL)
Film editor KEN BERRY
Producer RICHARD ROBINSON

by DAVID COOK
Plays from the series Scene
Micky is dead. Brian was his mate. Brian won't go to school, won't go out and he won't talk - except to Micky.
Producer RONALD SMEDLEY

On the Waterfront
The old Billingsgate Fish Market closed in January 1982 and the most important waterfront site in Europe was available for examination by the Museum of London. Would they find traces of the Great Fire? Of the medieval church that once stood there? Of the Norman, Saxon, even Roman waterfronts? The site has been occupied for nearly 2,000 years-but was it continuous? Did the Saxons take over as soon as the Romans left?
Chronicle followed the excavation for two years to produce an unprecedented Diary of a Dig and recorded the archaeologists' work against time to rescue historical evidence before the foundations of an office block destroyed the site for ever.
Narrator Andrew Faulds
Film editor BOB PORTWAY
Written and produced by ANTONIA BENEDEK. Series editor BRUCE NORMAN HELPLINES: page 75 Woddis On., page 81

starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Annabel Leventon , Annette Lynton , Vanessa Knox-Mawer , Raymond Mason , Ken Morley , Hugh Thomas and Geoff Capes
The 'right to know' team look into orange juice cartons and discover divorce, pornography, bran and two donkeys.
Script editor JIMMY MULVILLE Lighting director GEOFF SHAW Costume RICHARD WINTER Designers
RICHARD BRACKENBURY. IAN RAWNSLEY. Produced and directed by MARTIN SHARDLOW

Narrated by Robert Winston
Second Sight
A year ago John Devonshire could see perfectly. Now his vision is so poor he can't even see to make a cup of tea. After months of avoiding it, he finally accepts that he needs help.
Film editor CHRIS WOOLEY
Producer HENRY CAMPION
Series editor DAVID PATERSON

New Zealand v England
Highlights of the final day's play from Christchurch

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Maureen Carter and Bridget Kendall

The Embassy World Indoor
Bowls Championships from Coatbridge,
Indoor Bowling Club
DOUGIE DONNELLY introduces highlights from the first day's play.