9.36 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
11: In Proportion
A potting mixture has grit, loam and peat in the proportions 7:2:1. What fraction of it is loam?
Followed by Scale Up
Why is an elephant a different shape from a mouse?
(R)
9.58 Thinkabout: Under our Feet
10.15 Science Workshop: Stretch, Weigh and Bounce (B)
10.38 Exploring Science: The Body Machine
11.0 The History Trail: The Silver Buckle: 1
A story in three parts by Joan Aiken
It is 1698 and the Newants are in trouble. They have lost all their money, and Richard, the eldest son, is fighting a duel.
But his young brother Thoby is making plans to take them all to America.
(R)
11.22 Tutorial Topics: The Bully and the Victim: Parts 1 and 2
by John Challen
A two-part play that looks at the same story from two viewpoints.
with Wayne Goddard, Demetri Jagger, Richard Chadwick, Simon Gilby, Gareth Armstrong, James Marcus, Maureen Morris, Barry Ewart and Judy Gridley
11.45 Higher Education: What Sort of Course?
An introduction to polytechnics, colleges and institutes of higher education.
(R)
12.5 pm Buongiorno Italia!: 12: Mi puo dare un numero?
(Continued from autumn 1985)
A course for beginners in Italian
(R)
12.30 Prima!: 2: Wieviel?
Eight short programmes about tourist-German - all you need to survive.
(R)
12.45-1.15 Bellamy's New World: 1: A Little Inconvenience
Presented by David Bellamy
Eight films exploring America and its botanical history.
(R) (Ceefax subtitles)
1.20 Encounter: Italy: A Country at Work
Italian industries: fishing in the Bay of Naples.
(R)
1.38 Around Scotland: Border Reivers: 2: Archie Armstrong's Aith
A dramatisation by Hector MacMillan of a well-known border ballad.
with Gregor Fisher, Alex Norton, James Gibb, James Kennedy, Maureen Beattie and
Rhona MacKay
2.0 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds Dibs helps Cosmo overcome her fears. Dressing up song: 'What if you were a lion?'
Book: Roger was a Razor Fish
Poems compiled by Jill Bennett
Illustrated by Maureen Roffey
2.15 Music Time: Rhythms Together
2.40 History File: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khrushchev
with subtitles; Weather
Trouble in the Ark
Animal rights come under scrutiny in the first of a new series of eight programmes which examine issues involving young people. Every half hour, 300 animals die in laboratory experiments, and 90,000 are slaughtered for food. But is it necessary, or even healthy? With Lindi the Rabbit's help Red Herring looks at the arguments and talks to members of the South-east Animal Liberation League, now in prison for raiding labs. Editor HORACIO QUEIRO
- Produced by CHRIS LENT
\ 0 LEARNING AT HOME: pl3.
I INFO: p77 and WODDIS ON: p79
Written by Gene Roddenberry
starring William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock, DeForest Kelley as Dr McCoy.
From a devastated planet in uncharted space a voice speaks to the Enterprise: "I am as dead as my planet". Not until a landing party beams down is the significance of the statement realised...
(R)
Second of eight programmes presented by Tony Soper
Hedgehogs and squirrels are among the most common visitors to our gardens - one by day, the other by night. But whereas the squirrel is often an unwelcome guest on the bird-table, hedgehogs devour our garden pests by night - no garden should be without one.
But how do you attract them and what do you do when faced with a three-ounce hedgehog orphaned just before the snows of winter? Film editor HUGH TASMAN Producer BRYN BROOKS
* LEARNING AT HOME: p13
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
The monthly literary magazine introduced by Ian Hamilton
Home Thoughts from Abroad Sir Angus Wilson , the distinguished novelist, this month publishes a collection of his travel essays,
Reflections in a Writer's Eye. For Bookmark, this famous observer of the English scene journeyed from his new home in the south of France to visit London. Ian Hamilton takes Sir Angus to places which prompt reflections on his life, his work, and the changing Britain he has decided to abandon.
A new writer, Simon Burt , talks about his remarkable first collection of short stories, Floral Street.
And Bookmark investigates H.R.F. Keating , whose new Inspector Ghote novel,
Under a Monsoon Cloud, is published this month. How did such a reserved
Englishman manage to capture the teeming life of the sub-continent to the satisfaction of the Bombay Police Department?
Directors ROLAND KEATING , PAUL LEE Producer ROGER THOMPSON Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS
A series of films about the way we live now.
The Hebrides - idyllic isles of wild beauty, majestic, remote, peaceful? That's not how Neil Gillies, 23 years old and unemployed, sees his island home of Vatersay. For him it's a place of isolation, boredom and drink. He can't wait to leave Vatersay, his widowed mother and his eight brothers and sisters, to try his luck in Glasgow.
His prospects aren't good. Jobs are scarce, accommodation hard to find. There are compensations - Vatersay has few girls; Glasgow seems alive with them. Over the months, the demands of fending for himself begin to tell. When Neil leaves his hard-won job he escapes into the illusory comfort of alcohol. Should he have stayed on the island? Or can he come to terms with this uncompromising city of bed-sits, the dole and bars?
The start of the 18th series of BBC2's International Snooker Championship for the Pot Black trophy features the current title holder,
Doug Mountjoy (Wales) bidding to win the championship for the third time, against Patsy Fagan (Irish Republic) making his debut in television's longest-running tournament.
Commentator TED LOWE Referee JOHN Williams Presenter David Icke Director PETER HAYWARD Producer JOHN G. SMITH BBC Pebble Mill
