from the Royal Show at
Stoneleigh in Warwickshire
with Peter Hobday and John Timpson
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Prayer for the Day
7.0, 8.0 Today's News
Read by PETER DONALDSON
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
7.45* Thought for the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament
At this time of year, daily life suffers one of its most compelling interruptions ... the Wimbledon Tennis
Championships dominate conversation and television. Today Jimmy Hill goes to
Wimbledon to meet the team behind the world's most famous tennis tournament.
Research KAREN DECO Producer MIKE CHANEY Stereo
visits Dorset for the Lyme Regis Charter 700 Celebrations where members of the Uplyme and Lyme Regis Horticultural
Society put their questions to Geoffrey Smith
Daphne Ledward and Dr Stefan Buczacki Questionmaster Ken Ford
A Gypsy's Warning by PAT BURCHARD Read by June Barrie
Primrose was a dreamer ... and sometimes her dreams came true.
Producer PAMELA HOWE BBC Bristol
Ten programmes
9: Mind How You Go
Johnny Morris calls on 25 years of dealing with animals - and their dealings with him. BBC Bristol
On Independence Day and in this election year, how do the interests of American consumers rate? John Howard visits the homeland of modern consumerism to assess whether the movement is still alive and kicking.
Producer KEN VASS
by ALLAN PRIOR (1)
Presenter Sir Robin Day
Nerys Hughes reads Teddy Pig and Julia's Birthday by FRANK DICKENS
Sunday Visiting by KEN BLAKESON
For nine-year-old Alan, a visit to tend his sister's grave is an escape from his father's anger. For his mother, it's a reminder of why her husband is angry.
Directed by TONY CLIFF BBC Manchester Stereo
Last year Kevin Crossley
Holland presented a selection of poems about the English abroad. His new series on the same theme begins, appropriately enough, for Independence Day, with a selection of poems about the English in the USA.
Readers DAVID BRIERLEY
ANTHONY HYDE
Producer ALEC REID : BBC Bristol
The Year of the Lion (10)
Presenters Robert Williams and Susannah Simons continued on VHF 5.50-5.55
with PAULINE BUSHNELL including
Financial Report
devised by TONY SHRYANE and EDWARD J. MASON
John Amis and Frank Muir challenge Ian Wallace and Denis Norden
In the Chair Steve Race Questions compiled by STEVE RACE
Producer PETE ATKIN
(Repeated: Friday 12.27 pm) Stereo
(Repeated: Thursday 1.40 pm)
Presenter Roger Cook Producer JOHN EDWARDS
(Repeated: Thursday 12 noon)
The idea of continental drift was put forward in 1912 by Alfred Wegener with firm evidence to back it. Yet it took 50 years before geologists could bring themselves to accept the idea and then it revolutionised the subject.
Robert Muir Wood tries to discover how the most important single idea in the history of geology could have taken all that time to percolate through.
Producer MARTIN GOLDMAN BBC Scotland
A ten-part series in which Jeremy Siepmann casts a generally benign but occasionally cynical eye on the history of music-making in the home.
8: Vox Populi ...or How to go Slumming in Safety
The Countess plays at being a shepherdess, gentlefolk thrill to the tune of the bordello, and the peasantry get their own back.
Producer RAY ABBOTT Stereo
This month Israelis go to the polls against a background of raging inflation, controversy over the role of the army in Lebanon and argument over the policy of settlements on the West Bank. David Wheeler examines the issues and talks to leading Israelis about options for the future.
(Repeated: Friday 11.0 am)
Five programmes in which playwright Brian Thompson attempts to catalogue random memories as preparation for an autobiography.
4: Lambeth. BBC Manchester
The Cultural Olympics
Paul Allen reports from Los Angeles on the Olympic Arts Festival. This ten-week long extravaganza of dance, music, drama, opera, film and fine art features over 400 performances by 76 companies from a score of countries - making it the largest festival ever held in the USA. Major British companies, such as the RSC and the Royal
Opera join France's Theatre du Soleil, the Korean National
Dance Company, the National Theatre of Greece, the China Performing Arts Company and groups from South America,
Japan and Australia - as well as leading American artists from every field.
Producer RICHARD DUNN
Riceyman Steps (8)
Presenter Alexander MacLeod
11.0 Headlines on VHF until 11.0
War and Peace in our Time Seven programmes presented by GEOFFREY STERN 1: Why War? GEOFFREY STERN examines the persistence of warfare with the help of the great figures of the 1930s and beyond - their voices and views preserved in the BBC's archives. Producer DANIEL SNOWMAN
12.30 Making Work 8: On the Fiddle Other people's dishonesty - if you're not making money, maybe you're selling the wrong product! Presenter JOHN WALTERS
12.50 YTS Briefing 3: Special Projects Presenter MARGARET KORVING
