9.52 Look, Look and Look Again: Natural Details
Colourful flowers and tiny butterflies make good subjects tor detailed drawing and painting.
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10.15 Look and Read: Dark Towers: 3: The Old Legend
by Andrew Davies
A reading series for 7- to 9-year-olds based on a ghost story in ten episodes.
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10.38 Investigating Science: Observation: Have You Ever Noticed?
It's surprising what the trained scientific eye can spot in even the most familiar of situations, such as a street. Science is based on observations: it's a vital part of a scientist's life.
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11.00 Watch: Thanks for Our Food
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11.18 Wondermaths: 3
Hudson the robot blows one of the Investigator's fuses. But which one? Zak and Stella are faced with a grid of 100 fuseholders and only four guesses.
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11.35 MI 10: Mathematical Investigations
Pascal's Triangle 2
From stacks of cans to tosses of coins - a common pattern
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followed by Mazes
Hampton Court for Hilary, an international maze for Enterprise, the European Champion maze-solver.
Presenter Hilary Clough with David Woodfield
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12.00 Maths Topics: Trigonometry: 3
A surveying problem - and two methods of solution.
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12.20pm Media Studies: The Inside Story
Producers talk about their aims in making different types of documentary film.
David Filkin uses extracts from Q.E.D. programmes to illustrate different ways of putting scientific ideas across. Paul Beriff describes Animal Squad as 'photo-journalism' - recording events as they happen.
Mark Byford, in filming the eviction by the police of the hippie convoy from Stoney Cross, has to be fair to different points of view.
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12.50 Micro File 'B': Only Connect
A compilation of items from the series Micro Live.
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A See-Saw programme
with Fred Harris
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1.38 Outlook: Alternative Technology: 2: Waste Not, Want Not
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A series for 4- and 5-year-olds.
Cosmo and Dibs play a practical joke on Harry, but it misfires.
Maths at the seaside: picnic.
Book: "Rebekah and the Slide" by Christine Parker, illustrated by Lisa Kopper
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Live coverage from Blackpool of the debates on employment, defence and inner cities including at
3.00* News and Weather
3.50 * News and Weather

Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week's cinema releases.

Cotswolds Jenny Powell and Tony Baker in tandem, and in fact 'on' tandem, tackle the 'Tour de Cotswolds' to prove that presenting pop videos, powerplays and charts is as easy as riding a bike.
New Midlands presenters Jools O'Ayoola and Tara Wills vie for the yellow jersey with their own demonstration of pedal power on tricycle and bicycle respectively. The saddlesore four dismount for a game of football in the River
Windrush, a circuit of Bob Boomer 's Agility Club for dogs, and a bit of cheese-rolling, welly-wanging and shin-kicking at the top of Dover's Hill. Perhaps No Limits should carry a Government health warning! Associate producer JONATHAN KING Production PETER HAMILTON BBC North West

In her first year as Junior Health Minister, Edwina Currie , mp has rapidly become one of the Government's best-known - and most controversial figures. Her outspoken comments have kept her constantly in the public eye. Tonight she faces an audience of teenage inquisitors from around Britain.
Presented by John Nicolson
Researcher MARK HAGEN
Director DENNIS COSGROVE Producer STEWART LAMONT BBC Scotland

Introduced by Nigel Kennedy
Every autumn for the past 12 years thousands of talented youngsters have descended on the Royal Albert Hall in London to take part in the annual Schools Prom.
Nigel Kennedy, the virtuoso violinist who took part himself in an early Schools Prom, meets some of the young musicians and introduces their performances at the Royal Albert Hall. With guest soloists Robert Max (cello) and James Kirby (piano)
Producer KEN GRIFFIN
(The Schools Prom is organised by Music for Youth in association with Commercial Union Assurance and Marks and Spencer)

Off the Leash
Packs of stray dogs scavenging the streets, a child bitten outside her home, new-born puppies dumped in a dustbin, 1,000 dogs a day destroyed because no-one wants them - a nation of animal lovers?
Helen Boaden goes on the streets with the RSPCA and the dog-catchers of Bradford to expose the gulf between the British national image and a public menace.
Research GEOFF SMALL Producer PAUL BERRIFF Editor COLIN CAMERON BBC North West
The Government is about to abolish the Dog Licence. Next week Brass
Tacks will discuss the alternatives for canine control. To take part ring now [number removed]. Lines are open until
11.30 tonight.

Starring Ronnie Corbett
with his special guests Barbara Dickson, Philip Madoc, Kit and the Widow and Fred Wetherby

Arthur Chuckle, Senior Market Analyst with the city laughter brokers Yock, Yock, Howl and Boffo, says the following 30 minutes are a blue chip investment.
Monologues and sketches are expected to yield huge dividends in laughter - and jokes show continued growth.
Outstanding guest performers also get their share. Further outlook: continuing boom and boom-boom.

The fourth of five documentaries for the nation's bicentennial. Journey to the Interior with self-made millionaire and pilot, Dick Smith
'We're taking this helicopter into the Outback. Not many of us live there, but I reckon it's the most Australian part of Australia.'
In a journey of more than 1,000 miles, Dick Smith swoops low beside kangaroos, wild horses and black swans. He drops down to talk to drovers, prospectors, lonely cattlemen - their children have lessons by radio while mum goes shopping by plane.
Eventually landing at the desert township of Birdsville (normal population 60) for that most Australian of occasions - a race meeting Sound RON CRABB
Film cameraman JIM PEIRSON Film editor MAX WHEELER Producer TONY SALMON
Series producer TIM SLESSOR
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from The Silk Cut Festival
This week it's the delightful Emmylou Harris , fired on by her sizzling Hot Band. Songs include Miss the Mississippi, Save the Last Dance and C'est La Vie.
Introduced by David Allan Festival organiser MERVYN CONN Sound BARRIE HAWES
Lighting JOHN WIGGINS
Designer ANDREW HOWE-DAVIES Producer DAVE PERROTTET

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael with political and economic reports from Will Hutton and Nick Clarke