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9.15 Encounter: Spain: Spare Time
A teenage disco, a pelota match and the Valladolid local radio station. Youth groups - and a romeria in Plasencia.

9.33 Descubra Espana
Unos ratos libres

9.52 Talkabout: The Magic Brush

10.12 Science Workshop: Tracks 'A'

10.34 Scene: May All Your Troubles Be Little Ones
(Repeat. For details see Friday at 2.1)

11.5 Near and Far: Tundra
Home to the Eskimos; frozen solid in winter and abounding with wildlife in summer.

11.30 Home Ground: Country Crafts 3: Drink and be Merry
Cider and beer are the traditional British drinks. But have you heard of perry? Does Wales produce wine? Producer J. Philip Davies

11.55 Better Badminton: 5: Mixed Doubles
with Jake Downey. Basics for beginners and film items about the past, present and future of the game.

12.20 Visions of Change: 6: Life is Better...
Newsreels and television in the 1950s.

12.45-1.0 Write Away
- A practical guide to everyday writing with new and handy ways of remembering spelling. Presented by Barry Took with Michael Gambon and Zena Walker
Adults wanting help with reading, writing or spelling can ring [number removed] during office hours or send their name and address to: Write Away, [address removed].

1.10 A Good Job with Prospects: The Hotel Industry

1.38 Around Scotland: Behind the Scenes. Department Store
(Repeat. For details see Friday 1.38)

2.0 You and Me: Are There Enough?
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds. Clive runs a shop full of conjuring tricks and party goods. Rabbit helps and between them they get the maths right.

2.15 Music Time: 15: Contrasts

2.40 Everyday Science: Sporting Materials.
Badminton shuttlecocks, pole vault poles and tennis rackets depend on the versatility of plastic materials.
Narrator Fergus O'Kelly
Producer Michael Coyle

Contributors

Producer ("Home Ground"):
J. Philip Davies
Presenter ("Better Badminton"):
Jake Downey
Presenter ("Write Away"):
Barry Took
[Actor] ("Write Away"):
Michael Gambon
[Actress] ("Write Away"):
Zena Walker
Narrator ("Everyday Science"):
Fergus O'Kelly
Producer ("Everyday Science"):
Michael Coyle

Can you solve these ancient runes? not mir der Hubert Wen Tuder Kaputt, Zu gitter Porto Gabun ?
Bat wenn sie Gott da der Kaputt ,
Washbar An zu depot, doch hat nahn!
This week's Earth visitors are:
Paul McDowell, Bonnie Langford, Christopher Hughes
Resident Argonds: His Highness, Kenny Baker; Gnoard, Charmian Gradwell;
Gandor, Christopher Leaver; Dagnor, Bill Homewood

Contributors

Designer:
Chris Robilliard
Director:
Christopher Tandy
Producer:
Ian Oliver
His Highness:
Kenny Baker
Gnoard:
Charmian Gradwell
Gandor:
Christopher Leaver
Dagnor:
Bill Homewood
Earth visitor:
Paul McDowell
Earth visitor:
Bonnie Langford
Earth visitor:
Christopher Hughes

The Final
Suspense in the final of TV's match angling contest from Manor House Fisheries at Newark-on-Trent. Jack Charlton introduces the match from the big lake. Can anyone catch the big one that will win the prize? Bob Church talks about trout fishing.
Match commentator PETE THOMPSON Finalists: ALLAN HAINES , IAN HEAPS
KEN GILES , MAL TALBOT
TOM PICKERING , FRANK BARLOW
Director TONY WOLFE
Producer ROY RONNIE BBC Pebble Mill

Contributors

Introduces:
Jack Charlton
Commentator:
Pete Thompson
Unknown:
Allan Haines
Unknown:
Ian Heaps
Unknown:
Ken Giles
Unknown:
Mal Talbot
Unknown:
Tom Pickering
Unknown:
Frank Barlow
Director:
Tony Wolfe
Producer:
Roy Ronnie

continues a major season of films new to television, tonight starring Angela Punch-McGregor Graeme Blundell
Tom and Melanie have been friends since early childhood and never contemplated being lovers. When both are stood up by their dates, a drunken evening follows and the couple end up in bed. Deciding to live together, they face the problem as to whether lovers can also be the 'best of friends'.
Screenplay by DONALD MACDONALD Produced by TOM JEFFREY
Director MICHAEL ROBERTSON. Films: p. 16 (First showing on British television)

Contributors

Unknown:
Angela Punch-McGregor
Unknown:
Graeme Blundell
Unknown:
Donald MacDonald
Produced By:
Tom Jeffrey
Director:
Michael Robertson.
Melanie:
Angela Punch-McGregor
Tom:
Graeme Blundell
Iris:
Ruth Cracknell
Lilo:
Henry Szepps
Pammie:
Sonja Tallis
Colin:
Serge Lazareff
Jim:
Alan Becher
Fr James:
Graham Rouse
Mr Malone:
Les Foxcroft
Mrs Malone:
Moya O'Sullivan

David Jessel and Sue Cook present a weekly on-camera investigation into crime, punishment and justice.
Reports from Ed Boyle and expert comment from Michael Molyneux
Film director JEREMY EVANS. Studio director PIETER MORPURGO. Producer HUGH PURCELL Editor PETER CHAFER

Contributors

Unknown:
David Jessel
Unknown:
Sue Cook
Unknown:
Ed Boyle
Unknown:
Michael Molyneux
Director:
Jeremy Evans.
Director:
Pieter Morpurgo.
Producer:
Hugh Purcell
Editor:
Peter Chafer

Forty Minutes... of documentary

A night of fancy about Britain's most underrated bird from some members of its human fan club: Naomi Lewis, the pigeon's Florence Nightingale , who tends the stricken birds in parks and streets of London: Mr and Mrs Clapham who cohabit with 32 pigeons in their Tooting semi: Jed Jackson the blind fancier whose 'Genista' won the pigeon Grand National in 1981: Geoffrey Stevens of Sheffield who trains his white fantails to take wing to the music of Messager in the ballet Les Deux Pigeons.
There is a man who eats them, another who dyes them and a journalist who panics whenever he sees them. (He claims never to have been to Trafalgar Square). An ornithologist from Lancashire believes pigeons have regional accents, so there's no doubt that it is in broad scouse that the pigeons of Liverpool airport angrily coo their dislike of the Shirley Bassey records used to frighten them from the runways.
Film cameramen ALEX HANSEN. DAVID FEIG Film recordist FRED CLARK Film editor SHELAGH BRADY
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Producer ANDY STEVENSON
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Contributors

Unknown:
Naomi Lewis
Unknown:
Florence Nightingale
Unknown:
Mrs Clap
Unknown:
Jed Jackson
Unknown:
Geoffrey Stevens
Unknown:
Shirley Bassey
Unknown:
Alex Hansen.
Editor:
Shelagh Brady
Producer:
Andy Stevenson

From the heart of beautiful downtown Burbank, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin invite you to a laugh-a-minute extravaganza. Tonight's guest stars are Jack Benny and Johnny Carson
Executive producer GEORGE SCHLATTER

Contributors

Unknown:
Dan Rowan
Unknown:
Dick Martin
Unknown:
Jack Benny
Unknown:
Johnny Carson
Producer:
George Schlatter

11.30 Biology: Insect Diversity
Caterpillars become butterflies, and they are just a few species among millions of others, which we call the insects.
11.55 Psychology: It's a Matter of Opinion Does punishment mark a child for life? Sigmund Freud and B. F. Skinner agree that it can, but for different reasons.

Contributors

Unknown:
Sigmund Freud
Unknown:
B. F. Skinner

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