Today's story:
I Wish 1 Could Wink written by JUDY WIIITFIELD Presenters this week
Sarah Long , David Hargreaves
Book: More Stories from Play School, 35p, from bookshops. The Tale of a Donkey's Tail and Other Stories from Play School, record (No 232) El.79, or cassette (No 045' il.95, Bang on a Drum sonns from Play School and Play Away record (rec 242) il.95, cassette (mrmc 004' il.95, from record shops

A series of ten programmes
6 : It's All Part of the System
How are the new catering ' systems ' affecting the demand for skills?
Commentary by DEREK COOPER
Producer BRIAN DAVIES
Series producer ian woolf

A series of ten programmes
6:Northern Ireland: the options
What alternatives face the people and politicians of the province? The programme takes a cool look at some constitutional options - among them complete integration with Britain: an independent Northern Ireland; self-government within the United Kingdom -with either majority rule or power sharing.
Introduced by ROBERT FISK
Director iudy HARRIS
Producer BERNARD ADAMS
Book, Why is Britain Becoming Harder to Govern?, 75p. from bookshops

with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing followed by Weather on 2

A series of ten programmes on hand-knitting and crochet. Presented by JAN LEEMING
6: Master Finish
Do you know how to make up a piece of knitting and crochet with a literally invisible seam? Do you know how to do Swiss darning? These and many of the other tips which give a hand-made garment that professional finish are demonstrated by MARGARET KINNARD and PAM DAWSOK.
Executive producer SHEILA INNES Producer JLNNY rogfrs
Book (same title). £2.20, from bookshops

Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion on events and issues of the day, including Foreign Report
Newsreader Richard Whitmore
Kditor JOHN TISDALL

Richard Baker introduces the United Nations Day concert, recorded last month in New York.
Copland Lincoln Portrait - Narrator Marian Anderson
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 - Soloist Lazar Berman with the National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Antal Dorati
Produced by United Nations Television

(Next week: Morecambe and Wise)

The Selfish Gene
Why do bees sacrifice themselves in large numbers when their hive is attacked by wasps? Why do scrub jays feed their brothers and sisters instead of making their own nests? Why do pseudo-scorpions risk mutilation and death so that their relations can eat? Zoologists like Konrad Lorenz say there is genuine altruism in animal behaviour, and that animals act for the common good of the group.
This programme suggests that this view is both romantic and wrong. Professor John Maynard-Smith interprets these behaviours in a totally different way. The body is mortal but its genes are potentially immortal. So evolution is seen as a competition taking place between genes: the body is a temporary survival machine, constructed by the genes to fight for their ! survival and propagation.
A male lion kills all the cubs when he takes over a pride; in fact, he is just acting in the best interest of his genes. But does success always require such ruthless selfishness?
Film editor Ted WALTER Editor PETER GOODCHILD Producer PETER JONES iNexl week: A Child of our Own)

Sing along with us in a song-a-minute sequence of familiar tunes sung by John Christie , Paul Curtis Kim Davis , Jane Marlow
Elaine Paige. Mike Redway
Carolyn Smith. Danny Street and (sometimes)
The Fine Tooth Combs with Take Four
Choreography NIGEL I.YTHGOE
Musical director BILL SHEPHERD Lighting DENNIS CHANNON
Sound PETER ROSE. KEN GREGORY Designer JOHN COLEMAN
Producer JOHNNIE STEWART

Weather

Robert Lister reads Snow and SnolV by TED HI'GHES