6.40 Genetics

7.5 Books and Libraries

7.30 Portraiture

Story: What is Summer?
Written by CELIA LANDRETH Photographs by JAMES MATTHEWS-JOYCE
Presenters KAREN PLATT , DAVID HARGREAVES

International Lawn Tennis
The Federation Cup
Thirty-two countries including top-seeded USA and Great Britain seeded second, are this weeK garnered on the immaculate lawns of Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, to contest the most prestigious women's team event of the international calendar. Live coverage of the pick of the second-round matches being played this afternoon on the Centre Court.
Commentators PETER WEST
JOHN BARRETT and SHIRLEY BRASHER
Introduced by DAVID VINE
Royal Ascot
Four races from the second day, plus the Royal drive and the fashions, which combine to make
- Royal Ascot such a great social occasion.
2.30 The Jersey Stakes (7f)
3.5 The Queen Mary Stakes (5f)
3.45 The Royal Hunt Cup (H'cap) (1m). Top handicappers compete in the meeting's most popular betting race, run over the straight mile.
4.20 Coronation Stakes (Old Mile)
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentator PETER O'SULLEVAN JIMMY LINDLEY and JOHN HANMER
Fashions described by EVE POLLARD
Tennis producers FRED VINER , JOHNNIE WATHERSTON. (Organised by the LTA in conjunction with Colgate-Palmolive) Racing television presentation by DENNIS MONGER

4.55 Mechanics - Equilibrium

5.20 W. B. Yeats

5.45 Organisation Development (2)

6.10 Embalmers

6.35 Humanities: Question and Answer

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

Teaching - A Real ' Job? (2)
david HARGREAVES ' suggestion that teaching should be ' de-professionalised ' is discussed by a teachers' union leader, TERRY CASEY , and by a teacher, SARAH DAVIES.
Producer ROGER OWEN

Presented by Michael Charltoa and Charles Wheeler with Richard Kershaw
Newsreader Peter Woods

The last of 13 programmes about craftsmen in Britain.
13: Knitting Design
' When I first started I was just knitting fabrics, lengths and lengths of fabrics, but the people who bought them only made them up twice a year and often I didn't like what they produced. I thought I could do equally well.'
Kay Cosserat is now one of Britain's leading knitting designers. This film follows her at work on her next Winter Collection - from choosing the yarns to the final show at the London Designer Group Exhibition.
Film editor KATE RIVERS
Film cameraman DAVID FEIG Series producer john read Producer JULIA MATHESON

The last in a series of three programmes
3: The Wedding Photograph
The Evans and Hoopers married the Boultons, Edgcumbes and Holmans. One wedding photograph joins together all the strands of this combination of families, and all the branches were full of unlikely people and events. Narrator PETER FRANCE
Written and directed by MICHAEL CROUCHER BBC Bristol

A film series re-creating the successful feature film, starring
Rainbow Bridge Mercy Mission. Hawkeye and Trapper are less than enthusiastic about their venture into enemy territory. Especially when gun-happy Frank decides to go along.

by ALAN PLATER
Six tall stories on the Road to Wembley with Story 2: The Fryer's Tale ' There was a fryer, known throughout the town,
Whose shop sold fish and chips of great renown,
For help and haddock, people to him ran,
A veritable saint: they called him
Stan.'
Lyrics by ALEX GLASGOW and ALAN PLATER
Music by ALEX GLASGOW
Arrangements and additional music by MICHAEL STEER
Full of all kinds of fun. (THE LISTENER) Producer DAVID ROSE
Director TRISTAN DE VERE COLE BBC Birmingham

In the last ten years an astonishing number of new writers have emerged. Plays by Barrie Keeffe, John McGrath, David Hare, Howard Barker, Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths and Stephen Poliakoff have been performed at the Royal Court, the Aldwych, in the West End and at the National Theatre. The plays they write are about violence, sex and politics. How accurate and useful is their portrayal of society? What is the reason for their success? What are their own roots, influences and attitudes?
In an extended "Arena", writer and critic Albert Hunt assesses this renaissance of British playwrights, which has given the theatre of the 70s a distinctive voice.
Including interviews with, and extracts of plays by: Howard Brenton, Trevor Griffiths , David Hare, Barrie Keeffe and John McGrath.

The Songs of Harvey Andrews and Graham Cooper The Country Life
How much do we love or even care for our countryside? Who's the country for? Lions, litter, concrete, black and white pub, golf club and safari park - all are game for the pens of Harvey Andrews and Graham Cooper.
Nice twists and tunes. (TIME OUT) Photography ELMER COSSEY
Producer JOHN BIRD

Weather

Robert Lister reads Hide and Seek by VERNON SCANNELL