6.40 Genes and Development

7.5 Oceanic Crust

7.30 Radio Isotope Techniques

A magazine for Asian viewers including discussions, music and stories from the communities. Produced and presented by Mahendra Kaul
(Birmingham)

Today the annual Liberal Assembly opens in Scarborough and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates.

Reporting team: Robin Day and Richard Wakely

Story: "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" by Edward Lear
Presenters: Karen Platt, John Golder

Speech by Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, MP, Leader of the Liberal Party

12.30* Morning Report
A round-up of the debates

2.15 pm Live coverage of the afternoon's session

5.0 Curriculum Studies

5.25 Moderne and Modernistic

5.50 The Large Household

6.15 Arms to South Africa

6.40 Thomas Carlyle

with Ludovic Kennedy
Today's News Summary from Angela Rippon is followed by an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines.

Written and narrated by Kenneth Clark

A close-up of some of the most beautiful and strange objects ever made in Britain - the tiny carvings in walrus ivory created in the misty centuries around the Norman Conquest.

An Arts Council Film

(Next Wednesday: Edwardian Childhood)

(Les Rois Maudits)
A second chance to see this series in six episodes starring Jean Piat, Helene Due, Jean Louis Broust, Louis Seigner

Philippe the Fair's three sons are all dead and once again there is no male heir to the throne of France. The nearest relation is Edward III, King of England. Robert of Artois, now an exile in his land, persuades Edward to assert his claim and from the ensuing conflict is born the 'Hundred Years War.'

Adapted by Marcel Jullian from the work by Maurice Druon

An ORTF production

with Steeleye Span
from The New Inn, Gloucester
Traditional songs with a difference on a balmy summer's evening in the vine-covered courtyard of a famous West Country coaching inn. Steeleye Span add electronic instruments to tales of England's past when they sing in the ancient city of Gloucester.
(Manchester) (Repeat)

Presented by Angela Rippon

Weather

Michael Gwynn reads "Hurry Up Please It's Time" by Edwin Brook