9.43 France - Francais: Des jeunes en Provence
Is French easier to learn than English? Le College d'Apt invites you to an English lesson to judge for yourself. Afterwards, there's BMX bike racing - and a chance to hear some French.
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10.00 You and Me
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Dibs and Cosmo have difficulty in keeping warm. Sinead buys a new pet at a pet shop. Song: Daisy, Daisy
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10.15 Science Workshop: Bread 'A'
Cottage, chapatti, granary, chola. naan, Vienna, pitta, and sliced-white. All different, but all bread.
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10.38 Let's See: Travelling Days: 1: Feet and Hooves
Travel in Scotland today and in the past. A race between a drover and a cattle dealer illustrates the problems of travelling across a country full of mountains, lochs and rivers.
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11.00 Words and Pictures: Sing a Song
(For detail see Monday 2.00pm) (e)

11.18 Tutorial Topics: The Bully and the Victim
(For details see Monday 11.45am) (e)

11.40 Science in Action: In the Picture
(For details see Monday 1.00pm) (e)

12.05pm Job Bank: Short-Term Service
(For details see Monday 9.15am) (e)

12.28 Lifeschool: Going to Work: Two-Year YTS
Under a Youth Training Scheme the 16- or 17-year-old school leaver has two full years to gain real work experience.
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A See-Saw programme
Trueman, a champion shire horse, is being dressed up for a show, but other animals and birds, like hornbills, look dressed up all the time.
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1.38 Zig Zag: The Norman Invasion
A series for 8- to 9-year olds
Zig Zag takes the cameras to Bayeux and retells the story of the invasion with the help of Bishop Odo and the tapestry.
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The king decides to give the queen a surprise birthday present in the shape of a bed. He uses his foot as a unit of measure and presents the young carpenter's apprentice with a problem.
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Introduced by Hugh Scully Sock warmers and a rare posset pot are among the items in this week's visit to Great Yarmouth.
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Weather followed by World Darts
The World Professional Championship
Highlights of last night's second-round matches introduced by TONY GUBBA from the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green.
Commentators SID WADDELL and TONY GREEN
Executive producer IAN EDWARDS Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. PETER HAYWARD Producer KEITH PHILLIPS

CTN - CaTchiNg
ConTestaNts CreaTiNg daily lists of words from a given set of letters chosen at random - that's what
Catchword is about. Lovers of words have come from all over Britain to face presenter Paul Coia and Bryan the computer with his sets of letters. There are synonyms to seek, and quotes to complete.
Designer PAT CAMPBELL Research julie ADAIR . CAROLINE DAVIDSON
Director JUSTIN C ADAMS Producer CHARLES NAIRN BBC Scotland

First of six programmes The Mekong
In the first of this BAFTA
Award-winning series
William Shawcross travels up the Mekong - 'the river of solidarity' according to the Vietnamese.
But he found no easy passage. Vietnamese officials were suspicious of his motives, anxious for his safety.
His journey began in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, and took him by local ferry and gunboat - to Phnom
Penh, capital of Cambodia and on by military helicopter to the magnificent ruins of Angkor Wat, now a war zone. Journey's end, by contrast, was in the tranquil Golden
Triangle of northern Thailand. Written and presented by William Shawcross
Director DAVID WALLACE (R)
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Continuing a season of films starring one of Britain's most accomplished screen actors. Today also starring Muriel Pavlow, Kenneth More
Dirk Bogarde plays Simon Sparrow, a young medical student who, with three high-spirited companions, faces five energetic, hard-working but often hilarious years at St Swithins, under the eye of the irascible Sir Lancelot Spratt.
This famous comedy was the first of Bogarde's four appearances as Sparrow, and the one in which Spratt asks the immortal question, 'What's the bleeding time?'.
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The World Professional Championship
All things being equal, the matches completing the second round this evening will feature some of the magical names in darts. TONY GUBBA introduces highlights from the Lakeside Country Club, Frimley Green.

A monthly anthology of travel, exploration and adventure - worldwide
Introduced by John Ridgway The Mick Burke Film Competition
You, the viewer, choose the winning film from the three finalists.
Two Essex teenagers film their school's expedition to the high valleys of the Himalayas; in the Andes, climbers struggle up a live volcano where boulders the size of cars come bouncing by; and young explorers peer out from the jungle top of a tepui - one of the remote 'lost worlds' of South America. Film editor BOB MAYNARD
Producer RICHARD ROBINSON Series producer TIM SLESSOR Please send a postcard. by 31 January,sayingwhichfilmyou think is the best to: The Mick Burke Film Competition. BBCtv, London W128QT
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and The Gun Written by LARRY GELBERT and GENE REYNOLDS Directed by BURT METCALFE (R)

Second of a six-part serial by GERALD MACDONALD
Infighting in the advertising agency continues when
Gordon Lochhead tries to outmanoeuvre
Sarah Copeland and her absent managing director,
David Postgate. Meanwhile, life at home isn't getting any easier.
Graphics designer ROSLE TURNER Designer MARK SEVANT
Script editor RUTH BAUMGARTEN Producer RUTH BOSWELL Director BRIAN FARNHAM
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visits the West of Ireland. Clare, Galway and Connemara are the settings for this short look in music and conversation around part of Ireland's pretty, if windswept, coastline.
Barbara's own songs are featured along with some fine local traditional musicians, and a few tall tales to boot.
Musical director IAN LYNN Sound ANTHONY PHILPOT and DOUG WHITTAKER Lighting JOHN KING
Producer DAVE PERROTTET

with Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael