(Full details on BBC 1 at 4.0 pm)
A series of ten programmes
What causes the different kinds of hearing loss?
Introduced by Polly Elwes and Richard Baker
Book (same title), 85p, from bookshops
Details of lip-reading exercises will be given in the programme
with Ludovic Kennedy, Richard Kershaw, Kenneth Kendall
visits the University of Liverpool Botanic Gardens, Ness.
The late Arthur Kilpin Bulley was the first of the great 20th-century patrons of plant collecting. He founded Ness Gardens in 1898 and in this, the first of two visits, Peter Seabrook looks at the rock garden with its spectacular streams and pools.
BBC Birmingham
A series of six films made as part of the World of Islam Festival.
The nomad and the city are the two poles of Islamic civilisation, and the tension between them has always been a feature of its life. The nomads bring fresh and un-spoilt energies, and the capacity for renewal. The cities provide stability and continuity, and are the home of learning and the arts and crafts.
The first of nine programmes
How well do you know the British countryside?
A midweek diversion in which Julian Pettifer and his guests Ted Moult, Elizabeth Eyden and Richard Mabey describe, discuss or just guess at the sights and sounds of the countryside and the delights of country life.
BBC Bristol
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A play by Dennis Potter based on "Father and Son" by Edmund Gosse
with Alan Badel as Philip Gosse, Max Harris as Edmund Gosse
A lot of love, but not much fun for Edmund growing up in a house without a wife or mother. His father thinks he knows how to make the boy happy but the shapes on an eight-year-old's horizon change rather quickly...
The Controller and planners of Britain's smallest television network invite you to re-live the tensions and excitement of that evening when their output was first shown nationwide.
Your host Eric Idle and taking part: Neil Innes, David Battley, Henry Woolf, Timothy Carlton and Peter Glidewell
(Repeat)
with Kenneth Kendall; Weather
Ronald Pickup reads "There are Roughly Zones" by Robert Frost.
