9.40am Lifeschool
Links - the Developing World Out of the Colony
A historical look at the effects on Africa of being split into colonies.
Director JULIET MILLER
Producer ANDY WALKER (R) (e)
10.05am You and Me
How can Cosmo and Dibs fit so many bowls and saucepans onto one shelf? Song:
Put Your Finger in the Air. Presenter GARY WILMOT
Film director ERIC MIVAL
Studio director SUE ARON (R) (e)
10.18am Music Time Keeping Together
Visual signals. The children play their percussion music following pictures on the 'signal box'. Presenters JONATHAN COHEN and HELEN SPEIRS with JOHN hixon (English concertina), RODNEY STEWART
(double-bass), KEVIN HATHAWAY (percussion)
Director JEREMY ORLEBAR
Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT (R) (e)
10.40am Thinkabout Keeping Warm
The boiler's broken down.
Frank and Sally find out why.
Producer DEREK LONGHURST (R) (e)
10.58am Zig Zag Spaceship Earth 2
PAUL cola and SHEELAGH GILBEY explore Spaceship Earth's life support system - the atmosphere.
Producer CHRIS ELLIS (R) (e)
11.20am Into Music
The Caribbean Calypso
The winner of the Mas 88
Calypso monarch competition composes and performs his own calypsos. The children compose music based on the calypso rhythm.
Presenters SHELAGH FERRELL MARTYN GERAINT with Lucky children from
ROXETH MANOR MIDDLE SCHOOL Directed and produced by ELIZABETH BENNETT (e)
11.40am MI 10:
Mathematical Investigations Folds
Fold a piece of paper in half.
Fold that in half. And again.... for ever? followed by The Right Shape Presenter HILARY CLOUGH
Animation STEWART HARDY FILMS Film editor JOHN BILLINGHAM
Producer DAVID ROSEVEARE (R) (e)
12.00 France Francais. Jerome Sound recordist BOB ROBERTS Producer SUSAN PATON (R) (e)
12.15pm History File Boom and Bust
Commentary JOHN TIDMARSH Written by JOHN O'KEEFE
Producer JOHN CHAPPLE (R) (e)
12.35pm General Studies Romantic Fiction
How do people account for the popularity of romantic fiction with women? (R) (e)
1.00pm Science in Action Body Machine
Presenters TERRY MARSH and KJARTAN POSKITT
Assistant producer CLARE ELSTOW
Series producer ROBIN MUDGE (R) (e)

Archive footage illustrates this focus on the 1920s, a prosperous time in the United States until the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Where's Spot?
A See-Saw programme (R)

Water
Floella Benjamin with David, Elizabeth, Eriko, Ivan, James and Larissa Story : The Waterfall by PETER BONNICI
Storyteller Saeed Jaffrey
Musical director RICHARD BROWN Producer SHEILA FRASER Executive producer
CYNTHIA FELGATE (R)

All Change at the Docks A child's-eye view of the history of London's Surrey Docks and the future of the area with children from
Rotherhithe Junior School Radiophonic music ROGER LIMB Film editor HORACIO QUIERO
Producer PAT FARRINGTON (R) (e)

Presenter Vicky Ireland
(R) (e)

* CEEFAX SUBTITLES

Third of eight programmes Alnwick, Northumberland John Grundy reminds us that. like many other towns, 99 per cent of Alnwick's fine buildings have been designed and built by local chaps. Producer PAUL PAXTON BBC North East (R)

Jimmy Tarbuck and fellow comedian Tom O'Connor join Lee Trevino and Sandy Lyle, for the Whyte and Mackay Scotch Trophy.
Peter Alliss is the host. Executive producer JOHN SHREWSBURY (R)

Regional News and Weather

The first of a two-part story starring with guest stars
The Art of Taking a Powder Kildare becomes involved in a family feud when a failed actor arrives to be with his dying father. Rather closer to the doctor's heart, however, is Zoe Lawton 's strange behaviour and her plans for the future.... (R)

Richard Blizzard returns to the ups and downs of the traditional garden play area and builds the see-saw.
Simple to construct, yet strong enough to take the strain, this toy is a must for the patio or garden. Construction assistant MERVYN HURFORD
Researcher EILEEN BAYLISS Producer PHILIP THICKETT

Rob Curling with the latest on all things BBC.

starring Warner Oland as Charlie Chan with Boris Karloff and Keye Luke
A prima donna and her admirer are both murdered backstage at the opera, and Chan is called in to unmask the killer. The initial suspect - played by Boris Karloff - is an escaped lunatic with an unusual secret....
Screenplay by SCOTT DARLING and CHARLES S. BELDEN
Produced by JOHN STONE
Directed by H. BRUCE HUMBERSTONE
0 FILMS: page 25

F-f-f-first time on British television the full length version of Michael Jackson 's Smooth Criminal taken from his new film Moonwalker.
The ragamuffin of hip-hop Shine Head bridges the gap between reggae and rap; EPMD gives a chillin' performance; Will Downing talks about his marketing success; and Robert Cray tells why he still sings the blues. Executive producer JENNY COWAN
Producer TERRY jervis. BBC Pebble Mill
6.35pm Scene Play
QPR Askey Is Dead by LESLIE STEWART
'They sent you, their rejects, to me. They didn't want you embarrassing them in public places. Loud-mouthed boys with nothing to do than shout the odds....'
Paul returns to his old school, a school for the maladjusted, to find it has been closed down and is about to be converted into ten luxury apartments.
Film editor PETER BARBER Produced and directed by ROGER TONGE
DEF II editor JANET STREET PORTER

What Makes a Good School?
As parents attend the annual round of open evenings to choose a secondary school for their children, Maureen O'Connor asks the experts how they measure the effectiveness of a school.
It's a new and controversial area, but until firm proposals emerge, parents could find it even harder to choose a school in the competitive world of open enrolment.

Ninth programme in a 12-part series
Narrated by Anthony Quayle
One aircraft above all others demonstrates man's mastery of the skies - the fighter. The men who fly them, an elite among pilots. From the Second World War to Korea, the Middle East and Vietnam, the fighter's role has remained the same. A unique partnership between man and machine, designed to seek out and destroy the enemy.

BBC Pebble Mill
Ceefax Subtitles

by R. C. Sherriff
The Great War is in its final year. The Germans are preparing one last great offensive. In the trenches a war-weary company, under their veteran commanding officer, Captain Stanhope, wait to take the brunt of the first attack ...
FEATURE: page 18 and WODDIS ON: page 106

Reflections on 20th-century architecture in Britain.
Writer Jonathan Meades revisits Marsh Court, a private house-turned-prep-school designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens in 1904 and with gardens by Gertrude Jekyll. Meades finds the place an ever-changing maze. Director RUSSELL ENGLAND

American political commentator, the late Theodore H. White, traces the story of the ever-growing impact of television on presidential campaigns in a documentary covering three decades, from the first political TV commercial of Eisenhower as the Man from Abilene to the first campaign of the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan. Introduced by Charles Wheeler. Producer ROGER AILES
Adapted for the BBC by JEANNE LA CHARD.
A GUBER PETERS/AILES COMMUNICATIONS production (R)