6.40 Rubbish
7.5 The Terrestrial Planets
7.30 Rook Polynomials
The Benson and Hedges Cup The Semi-finals
PETER WEST introduces coverage of one of today's semi-finals in this 55-overs per side competition. Commentators
RICHIE BENAUD , TONY LEWIS
Television presentation BILL TAYLOR. HUW JONES
Executive producer NICK NUNTER
Benson and Hedges scores on Ceefax
Weather JOHN SHERWOOD
A See-Saw programme
CARMEN MUNROE introduces rhymes and counting games and tells a story about Annie, Louise, George, Kevin, Caroline, Cheng, Scott, Mary, Toni and Sandra, who all go to a place where there is plenty to do and room to play. Cheng's Cat
Illustrated by JOAN HICKSON Percussion greg KNOWLES
Musical director PETER PETTINGER Designer JOHN HOLLAND
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE Written and produced by CAROLE WARD
The Benson and Hedges Cup The Semi-finals
Further coverage of one of today's semi-final matches.
Introduced by PETER WEST Commentators
RICHIE BENAL 'D, TONY LEWIS
The last of four programmes with Isla St Clair Travelling People
Isla visits the Cutty Sark , the most famous clipper ship of all time, and the Gypsy Fair at Appleby, to discover the stories and sing some of the songs of the men who made such incredible journeys on land and sea.
Music RICK KEMP
Film cameraman KEITH BURTON Film editor M. A. C. ADAMS
Written and directed by DAVID TURNBULL
with Johnny Ball
A lighthearted exploration of science, technology and numbers. This week Johnny finds
No Cockles, Just Muscles, Alive Alive Oh
Squeezing muscles, waving muscles, levering muscles, spring muscles and jumping muscles. He'll be in deep water seeing how Archimedes showed his muscles, how to travel first class and still keep a balance and how to keep a camera steady When you're all over the place.
Meanwhile, flex your brain on this one:
A round-the-world cyclist has travelled 15,951 kilometres. How many kilometres must he travel before his speedometer again shows a number which reads the same backwards?
Written by JOHNNY BALL
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE Producer ALBERT BARBER
with Jan Leeming Weatherman
Look East, Look North
Look North West, Midlands Today Nationwide (London and SE) Points West, South Today Spotlight South West
6.20
Nationwide including: Royal Progress
The first of a series of special reports in which Hugh Scully visits the people and places most closely associated with the Prince of Wales and his future bride, Lady Diana Spencer.
This week: The Duchy of Cornwall The Royal Wedding souvenir issue of RADIO times goes on sale on 23 July
A series in six parts by Tara Prem
with Lois Daine as Stella Wilson, Hugh Fraser as Terry Wilson
and featuring Christopher Ryan as Mickey Farr, Marianne Lawrence as Fabienne
When celebrated jockey Mickey Farr arrives at the club with his beautiful French girlfriend in tow, gambling fever breaks out in the most unlikely places.
BBC Birmingham
starring Lenny Henry, Tracey Ullman and David Copperfield
with special guest Amii Stewart
and featuring Jane Darling, Tom Yang with Alan J. Clark as the Landlord.
Three new young artists in a fast-moving comedy show introducing this week The Rev Nat Westminster.
by the Conservative Party with the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP
(Also on BBC2 at 10.40 pm)
Kenneth Kendall; Weatherman
by Robert Bennett
The second of eight programmes starring Trevor Eve with Michael Medwin, Doran Godwin and Liz Crowther
Eddie's search for a missing aerial photographer causes both him and the radio station a bumpy ride ...
(Repeat)
Subtitles on Ceefax page 170
Do you know all you've ever wanted to know about comets? Did you know that the evolution of the moon was a history of catastrophes? Eye-witness accounts of a lunar collision made in the 12th century can be proved by modern scientific techniques. The romantic planet Venus is in fact surrounded by clouds of concentrated sulphuric acid. Explanations of all this and more in this week's Cosmos.
A joint production of KCET and Carl Sagan Productions Inc in association with BBCtv
with Terry Jones.
Iris Murdoch is the most distinguished popular novelist of her generation. From her sensational debut with Under the Net in 1954 to her latest paperback The Sea, The Sea, she has combined a gift for compulsive story-telling with high comedy and displayed a brilliant mind and a warm heart. Tonight she makes a rare television appearance to talk about her own work with Terry Jones and Paul Theroux, the author of The Great Railway Bazaar, whose latest novel in paperback is called Picture Palace. There will also be a round-up of recent travel books.
(A Good Read: Radio 4 Sunday 12.30 pm)
