6.40 Insect Hormones. 7.5 Metamorphic
Rocks, 7.30 Engineering Materials.

Story: The Nickle Nackle Tree
Written and illustrated by LYNLEY DODD Presenters
Elizabeth Millbank, Ben Bazell
Pianist WILLIAM BLEZARD
GraphiC designer JOANNA ISLES
Designer DONAL WOODS written and directed by EVELYN SKINNER Producer JUDY WHITFIELD
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE

The Cornhill Insurance Test Series
England v India from Lord's Second day
PETER WEST introduces the whole of the second morning's play from Lord's.
Scorer WENDY WIMBUSH
Commentators RICHIE BENAUD JIM LAKER , TOM GRAVENEY BRIAN CLOSE

Cricket: First Test
Peter West introduces coverage of this afternoon's play from Lord's. international Tennis
The Stella Artois Grass Court
Championships from The Queen's Club, London
Although JOHN MCENROE is the undisputed favourite to win his fourth title here, there are many young players taking part who have made reputations in doubles and are now keen to establish themselves on the singles rating list There are KEVIN CURREN and STEVE DENTON , HANK PFISTER and VICTOR AMAYA and MCENROE'S doubles partner, PETER FLEMING. Introduced by JOHN BARRETT

with subtitles, followed by Weather

A documentary film about the oldest mystery play in the world
Every August since the 14th century the citizens of the Spanish town of Elche, 15 minutes' drive from the busy tourist airport of Alicante, have celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary with a three-day festival. The first evening is a spectacular firework fiesta. On the next two evenings the Mystery Play is performed in the town's great basilica. It tells the story of the Virgin Mary 's death and Assumption into Heaven. The singers and actors are all amateurs, citizens of Elche, many of them with long family traditions of performing in the play.
This film, produced by the Folger Shakespeare Library of America, tells the story of the Elche Mystery Play and shows it as it happened in 1978. Directed by GUDIE LAWAETZ , MICHAEL DODDS Executive producer o. B. HARDISON JR

from Barnsdale with Geoff Hamilton , Clay Jones
A profusion of bedding plants is now on sale. How to recognise the good ones and prepare the ground to make the best of them.
Tender vegetables are due for planting out; there are any number of varieties of outdoor tomatoes from which to choose.
And some advice on softwood cuttings.
Produced by JOHN KENYON BBC Birmingham
Gardeners' World Cottage Garden. £4.75. BBC videobooks and Laservision video-discs, Mr Smith 's Vegetable Garden (BBCV 1000), Mr Smith 's Flower Garden (BBCV 1001), Mr Smith 's Indoor Garden (cbcv 1002) from retailers

by IRWIN SHAW dramatised by KENNETH CAVANDER The Man Who Married a French Wife
Tom Beauchurch , a successful New England lawyer, takes his wife Ginette to Paris for a second honeymoon. It is a Paris in the throes of the Algerian crisis; a crisis which soon threatens the very foundations of their marriage. Designer ALLAN ANSON Script editor ERIKA BOND Producer ALAN SHALLCROSS Director John GLENISTER A BBCtv production in association with WNET, New York The Monument starring A New York bartender refuses to lower his standards even when his boss threatens to sack him. Art director FRED KOLOUCH ProducerLINDSAY LAW Director NICK HAVINGA A WNET, New York. production The Girls in their Summer Dresses starring
Michael Loomis runs into trouble when he confesses to his beautiful young wife that he can't help eyeing the girls in their summer dresses ...
Art director FRED KOLOUCH Producer LINDSAY LAW Director NICK HAVINGA
A WNET, New York. production

Diana Quick on Dorothy Parker with Connie Booth and Richard Warwick
Men seldom make passes
At girls who wear glasses.
In the 1930s Dorothy Parker had a reputation as the wittiest woman in New York. As drama critic and book reviewer, she specialised in clear-sighted observations and often caustic humour. This threatened to eclipse her stature as a poet and short story writer, and she came to hate her wit, saying of herself : I was just a little Jewish girl trying to be cute '.
Aided by CONNIE BOOTH and RICHARD WARWICK , DIANA QUICK presents a personal selection from Dorothy Parker 's writing.
Designer RAY LONDON
Assistant producer NICHOLAS METCALFE Associate producer DAVID HEYCOCK Producer and director BOB MARSLAND

Presenters PETER SNOW, JOHN TUSA and DONALD MACCORMicK bring you the major events of the day, and the pictures, interviews and analysis that explain their significance. From the programme's team of correspondents: film reports shot in Britain and around the world on the issues and topics which are making the headlines.
JOAN BAKEWELL has first news of stories from the arts; DAVID ICKE and MARSHALL LEE have the stories from behind the world of sport.

RICHIE BENALD introduces highlights of the second day's play from Lord's.

12.0 Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts

12.25 Pleasure