Science - Fires of Life

Comhill Insurance Test Series England v West Indies from Headingley Second day
TONY LEWIS introduces live coverage of the whole of the morning's play. Commentators
RICHIE BENAUD
JACK BANNISTER
Summarisers
RAY ILLINGWORTH
TED DEXTER
Television presentation
KEITH MACKENZIE. ALAN GRIFFITHS

A See-Saw programme by ERIC CHARLES The Big Sneeze
Narrator Roy Kinnear with Sheila Walker
Music composed by BRYAN DALY Editor MARTIN BOHAN Director of animation DEREK MOGFORD
Designed and produced by IVOR WOOD (R)

Cricket: Fourth Test
Comhill Insurance Test Series TONY LEWIS introduces live coverage of the start of the afternoon's play.
Racing
The top four races on the first day's card of Ascot's July meeting.
2.30 Havelet Stakes (H'cap. 6f)
3.00 Virginia Water Maiden Stakes (6f)
3.30 Brown Jack Stakes
(H'cap. 2m)
The race that commemorates Ascot's greatest equine hero who won in six successive years at the Royal Meeting.
4.05 Sandwich Maiden Stakes (7f)
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentators
PETER O'SULLEVAN
JIMMY LINDLEY and JOHN HANMER
Producer, racing. FRED VINER including at
2.00 and 2.50
News and Weather
3.50 News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

Where the Fish Are Friendly Narrated by David Attenborough
It takes skill to caress vicious moray eels, and to swim in the shadow of giant manta rays, and yet these are routine for Walt and Jean Deas. They share Heron Island, on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
Photography WALT DEAS Producer JOHN SPARKS BBC Bristol (R)
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starring in Bilko's Television Idea
Under the misapprehension that 'Andrew Armstrong -
Tree Surgeon' has brought a top television comedian to Fort Baxter , Bilko is determined to sell him his own ideas.
Produced by NAT HIKEN Directed by AL DE CAPRIO
(R)

The Church Commissioners have recently called for disinvestment in South
Africa. The newly-formed World Gold Commission meets later this year to plan its strategy. South Africa's biggest black trade union
COSATU has renewed its call for sanctions. Ebony looks at the impact of sanctions and the response of governments in the West.
On his release from prison, former world middleweight boxing contender Rubin
'Hurricane' Carter reviews his life after serving 19 years for murders he maintains he did not commit. And Ebony is Homing In on ABC news presenter Patricia Goddard who talks about being black in Sydney, Australia.
Series producer VASTIANA BELFON Executive producer JOHN WILCOX BBC Pebble Mill

The opening of the 94th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts live in stereo from the Royal Albert Hall.
Sir John Pritchard conducts the masterpiece that has become one of the most popular of all choral works. The Verdi Requiem
Throughout this year's 69 Proms there is a single thematic thread - the response of composers over the centuries to the power of the word. Written at the height of his powers, Verdi's Requiem expresses the ancient Latin text in a richly theatrical style that has earned the work the epithet of 'Verdi's greatest opera'. Soloists
Julia Varady (soprano)
Dolora Zajic (mezzo-soprano) Dennis O'Neill (tenor)
Evgeny Nesterenko (bass) BBC Symphony Chorus Bach Choir
London Philharmonic Choir BBC Symphony Orchestra led by BELA DEKANY
Introduced by Richard Baker Lighting MIKE HILL
Sound GRAHAM HAINES and GEOFFREY KLINTON PARKER Executive producer KENNETH CORDEN
Directed by RODNEY GREENBERG
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starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones with Debbi Blythe
Eileen Davies , Robin Driscoll Peter McCarthy Garfield Morgan
Andrew Robertson -
Written by CLIVE ANDERSON BARRY BOWES. JON CANTER
ANDREW HASTINGS. TERRY KYAN
RORY MCGRATH , GRIFF RHYS JONES JAMIE RIX. MEL SMITH
PAUL SMITH. NICK WILTON Music by PETER BREWIS
Production JOHN KILBY. JAMIE RIX (R)
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A six-part series, from source to sea, about China's most violent river - and the cradle of its early civilization. 4: The Dwellers in Earth
It is probably the muddiest river in the world. Its cargo of yellow silt is picked up when the river cuts across a vast plateau of 'loess' - fine sand deposited over the millenia by the winds blowing from the deserts of central Asia. Carving their way into this soft rock, the local people - many millions of them - have constructed their troglodytic houses. The attitudes and customs of these people are their own - they are not much affected by the philosophies of far-away Peking.
Written and narrated by Stephen Jessel , former BBC correspondent in China Film editor KEITH WILTON
Producer VIVIANA WOODRUFF
An NHK production in association with BBCtv

from the International
Festival of Country Music David Allan is your host again for this fourth selection of high spots recorded at the Wembley Arena.
Including tonight: George Hamilton IV and son George Hamilton V Charlie McCoy,
Raymond Froggatt and Leon Everette Lighting JOHN WIGGINS Designer JOHN STOUT Directors
JOHN BURROWES. TOM CORCORAN Producer DAVE PERROTTET

with Geoff Hamilton and John Kelly from Aberford, near Leeds
Mrs Nancy Boydell has spent the last 30 years transforming a rubbish heap of thistles and nettles on a limestone soil into a paradise for all her fellow plant lovers.
Executive producer JOHN KENYON Production assistant
JEAN LAUGHTON
Producer MARK KERSHAW BBC Pebble Mill

with Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick
Reporters NICK CLARKE
LINDA CHRISTMAS, CHRIS LOWE
DAVID COSS , GAVIN ESLER
OLENKA FRENKIEL
MARGARET GILMORE
JAMES HOGG
WILL HUTTON, WESLEY KERR
PETER MARSHALL
JULIAN O'HALLORAN
DAVID SELLS
DAVID TINDALL , JANET TREWIN
CHARLES WHEELER Directors
JOHN WILKINSON. VICTOR MELLANEY Assignment editors
NIGEL CHAPMAN. NICK GUTHRIE Deputy editor MIKE ROBINSON Editor JOHN MORRISON

Christopher Jones reports on the week's proceedings in the House of Lords and questions Government ministers and Opposition peers about business in the Upper Chamber.
Editor KAROLYN SHINDLER

Comhill Insurance Test Series England v West Indies from Headingley
RICHIE BENAUD introduces highlights of the second day's play.