6.40 Zinc

7.5 The Universe Yesterday

The programme looks at a problem which most Asian women in this country have to face at some time or another.
There is also a story for young children and a popular song.
Producer ASHOK RAMPAL
Directed by krishan govld BBC Birmingham

Today the annual Liberal Assembly opens in Margate and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates. Reporting team Robin Day
David Dimbleby with Robert McKenzie
Reports from the Liberal Conference on Ceefax

Today's story:
The Stamping Elephant by ANITA HEWETT Presenters
Floella Benjamin David Hargreaves
Pianist MICHAEL OMER
Percussionist ALAN GRAHAME Designer DAVID LASKEY
Scripted by JANET WYATT
Directed by CHRISTINE HEWITT Producer ANNE GOBEY
Executive producer CYNTHIA PELGATE
Book, Play School: Ready to Play, 11.50, from bookshops; Play On, record (rec 332), cassette (zcm 332), Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away, record (REC 242) or cassette (MRMC 004), from record shops

Further coverage from Margate

2.0 Live coverage of the afternoon's debates

4.50 Microbiology

5.15 Technology and Participation in China

5.40 Alternative Technology

6.5 Seeing with Sound

6.30 The Early Music-hall

A chance for younger viewers to see last night's programme featuring Ricki Lee Jones at the Dominion Theatre, London. Introduced by Anne Nightingale
Television presentation by MICHAEL APPLETON

including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather

A series of 12 programmes with Robert Robinson talking to authors about their craft and their latest books, 2:Travellers' Taleswith Bruce Chatwin Jan Morris and Paul Theroux.
Director SUE MALLINSON Producer ANTONY bouse

This is the 71st Waterloo Crown Green Bowling Handicap, the most prestigious of all the competitions in the game, with 2,048 entrants starting on 17 July the long run to the final today.
Only on two occasions has the competition not been played-in 1910 and 1939, definitely an all-weather tournament as proved by the famous ' water splash ' final In 1976 played in a deluge of rain all through the day.
The Waterloo has the highest prize money in crown green bowling, 15,170 in total, with 11,500 for the winner, and only two bowlers have won the competition twice - BERNARD KELLY in 1953 and 1954, and ARTHUR MURRAY in 1973 and 1976. Introduced by Colin Welland Commentator HARRY RIGBY
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS BBC Manchester

Another visit by television cameras to radio's favourite competition of musical knowledge between
Frank Muir and John Amis and Denis Norden and Ian Wallace Questions set by Steve Race
Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPE

starring in Last Laugh
It's not all that funny. B. J. is arrested by the Military Police for gross misconduct, including the serious allegation that he is not a real doctor at all, just pretending. The whole thing turns out to be the handiwork of a friendly practical joker. Hawkeye can't help feeling that some form of revenge is called for ...

by Robert Crichton, dramatised in six parts by Bill Craig
Starring Morag Hood as Maggie Drum
with Malcolm Ingram as Gillon Cameron and Tom Watson as Tom Drum

'All right, Maggie. Go and find your noble savage. But never forget this one thing. You marry outside but never deny your own. In the end it's all you've got. Don't never forget that, Maggie. Never deny your own.'

BBC Scotland

Feature p.17

including
Liberal Party Assembly report followed by Weather

HUGH DICKSON reads
Ballad by JOHN CLARE