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TELEVISION AND RADIO 28 TV GUIDE BY SANDY SMITHIES THE GUARDIAN Saturday August 1 1687 Saturday BBC-1 BBC-2 Granada Channel 4 6 45 am Open University. 8 30 The Family Ness, 6 55 am TV-am including 7 30 The Wide Awake 6 50 am Open University. Watching brief 9 30 am Listening Eye. 10 0 The Home Service. 10 30 Scotland's Story.

11 0 Same Difference. 11 30 Dancin' Days. 12 30 pm Sea War. 8 35 Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds. 9 0 It's Wicked! 10 55 Film: Mountain Man.

1976 drama about 19th-century conservationist Galen Clark with iuu. uei rresn. mi America lop len. 12 0 NEWS; weather. -12 5 ROSES CRICKET.

1 25 MARY. 1 55 ROSES CRICKET. Denver Kyle. 2 20 NETWORK EAST. Valerie Vaz, Samantha Meak with the new entertainment and current affairs magazine on Asian issues, including a iook at me prospects rar peace in on Larma, and reDorts from the cricket benefit match 12 30 GRANDSTAND 19 3S rmln riawirinff nlrf beinq played for Imrhan Khan in West 2 45 FOOTBALL: The General Motors FA Charity Shield.

Live coverage from Wembley of the i I. Cup from Cowdray Park, with Prince Charles Bromwich. ainuiiu iiiu piayers; i News: i a showjumpmgmotor racing Speed Derby at Hickstead, and hiqhliahts from the 3 0 NO LIMITS: Portrush. Another showing for last week edition ot me roc roaasnow, rrom support races at the British Grand Prix; 1 55 Northern Ireland, with Jenny Powell and racing rrom uooawooa; 5 swimming National Long Course Championships; 2 Tony Baker. 25 15 RIGHT TO REPLY SPECIAL (Channel 4, 6 0).

Not before time, television gives serious attention to an issue generated by the medium itself and one which is of concern to every thinking parent, teacher and child. In the programme's first live transatlantic satellite link-up Channel 4 joins forces with KTCA, Minnesota's Public Broadcasting TV Channel to debate an alarming trend in the US children's television, fast catching on here, for animated shows which are no more than thinly-disguised commercials for toy manufacturers. Thundercats, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and Transformers are some of the programmes under discussion and already on our screens shows which, claim critics, promote very suspect values as well as putting enormous peer-group pressure on children to acquire the toys and games promoted. Viewers in the studio, including members of the target audience, will be able to challenge American TV producers and toy manufacturers about their present policies and about the new generation of "interactive" toys which will be an essential element in viewing the cartoons. Also taking part will be Anna Home of the BBC and ITV's Andy Allen, both responsible for introducing these shows to Britain.

uauiuunai cunain-raiser io me new moirjail season the League's centenary one this year between FA Cup Winners Coventry and League Champions Everton. Elton Welsby introduces; commentary is by Brian Moore with lan St John. 5 0 NEWS: weather. 5 5 ROSES CRICKET. Last visit of the day to the Yorkshire-Lancashire match at Headingley.

5 15 CHAMPION BLOCKBUSTERS hosted by Bob Holness. 6 0 CUE GARY. Gary Wilmot and the team with more funny facts and comic reflections, on 3 45 THE HIGH CHAPARRAL. The Price of racing; 2 35 swimming; 3 5 racing; show jumping; 4 30 motor racing. 5 5 CARTOON DOUBLE BILL.

5 20 NEWS; Weather; Sport; Regional News. Ftevenqe. Leif Enckson, Cameron Mitchell, Henry Darrow lead another episode of the oia western aaveniure senes. 4 35 THE HIDEAWAYS. Likely to be too sickly for tne aauit paiate, tms rancrrui yam revolves round the adventures of two children who tne tneme or communications.

1 0 PITTSBURGH. Designed to help the American war effort by fostering understanding between management and men, this romantic melodrama stars John Waynes ambitious miner competing with Randolph Scott for Marlene Dietrich. Made in 1942. 2 40 SUE MY LAWYER. Comedy two-reeler with Harry Langdon, made in 1938.

3 0 CHANNEL 4 RACING from Newmarket introduced by Brough Scott. 5 5 BROOKSIDE OMNIBUS. Oracle sub-titles. 6 0 RIGHT TO REPLY SPECIAL. See Watching Brief.

News summary; weather. 7 0 TIME TO TALK. Broadcaster Gerald Priestland talks to Lesley Judd about his life and faith, taking in his years as a distinguished foreign correspondent, and later as the BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent, the breakdown which helped to change his view of the world, and the origins of his pacifism. 7 30 BANDUNG FILE. Including a report from Tower Hamlets on the changing structure of local government, and what it means for the most deprived.

Plus: why large numbers of black youngsters are attracted to boxing. 8 30 ALL MUCK AND MAGIC? The organic gardeners investigate weed control, gardening on a bed system, and putting the right plant in the right place. Oracle subtitles. 9 0 NIGHTS AND DAYS. 11: The Fall of the Day.

Penultimate episode of the (sub-titled) Polish family saga finds Barbara (Jadwiga Baranska and Bogumif having to leave the estate and seek a new home, as their country 3 struggles for independence continue. 6 45 KATE AND TED'S SHOW. Comedy impressions rrom tne Hooomses. hide out in New York's Metropolitan Museum, become obsessed with an exhibit, and friends with its reclusive donor (Ingrid Bergman, not at her best). Fielder Cook 7 15 5 ALIVE.

More quick-fire comedy with the directed, in 1973. revue iroupe. 7 45 FAMILY FORTUNES with Les Dennis. 6 20 THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S WARDROBE. Another 8 15 SUMMERTIME SPECIAL.

Cliff Richards tops the variety show bill this week, with comic ITV regions showing for this gossipy film, in which noy walker hosting tne Bournemouth Miiuuia nuin mvesiiijaieu tne lasniuu DhiTosonhies and favounte frocks of assorted proceedings. Anglia 7 15 Five Alive. 7 45 As Granada. The Krankies top dressers, including the PM, who's a stickler for tissue paper, AND Selina Scott 6 55 As Granada. 12 45 Weather; close.

5 35 THE KRANKIES' ELECTRONIK KOMIK. Comedy who explains wny every woman wararoDe Scottish wnn lan ana janene ana me ivanKie cian, plus magic from The Great Soprendo, and simply must include a little black by Jean. i I'll music rrom aeiouis some. 6 5 ROLF HARRIS CARTOON TIME. Muir.

ueeiax sud-uubs. 7 0 DISCOVERING PORTUGUESE. 3: The Land. Another repeated teach-in with Roberta Fox. 6 55 11 30 12 0 12 5 1 5 6 35 CARRY ON CLEO.

Not so much a story of salad days, more a limp lettuce in need of a 7 25 NEWSVIEW. The day's news and sport, plus tne weekly, suD-titiea review, weamer. 10 0 ST ELSEWHERE: The Naked and the Dead. As Granada. The Roxy.

News. Wrestling. Rim: Attack on the Iron Coast. 1967 heroics with Lloyd Bridges. Film: Tales of Manhattan.

News. Walt Disney Presents. Champion Blockbusters. Cue Gary! Kate and Ted's Show. Five Alive.

As Granada. Late Call. Scotsport Special. Close. 8 5 DENNIS O'NEILL.

Another harmonious Another visit to the hard-pressed Boston medics. lump or coai Kennein uonnor is t-iengist, the nobbliest Briton of them all, joined by the usual gang in Gerald Thomas's corn-in-Egypt romp, made in 1965. Ceefax sub-titles. 8 5 SEASIDE SPECIAL. Mike Yarwood hosts the Jersey variety bill, featuring Bananarama, Bob Carolgees, and Mike Smith's Beat The Clock spot.

2 45 5 0 5 5 5 15 6 0 6 45 7 15 7 45 rendition by the Welsh tenor, with Patricia baraon. 11 0 ARTHUR AND PHIL GO OFF TO MARBELLA. Don Henderson 8 45 CAREFREE. Not the best of the Astaire and Last quirky travelogue of the series, with Smith and Nice investigating the pros and cons of the Costa del Sol. 15 BULMAN: W.

C. Fields Was Right. Don Henderson as the eccentric investigator. 12 45 8 55 BLUEBELL: 4. Carolyn Pickles leads the 12 50 1 35 unwisely agreeing to look for a missing dog Rogers musicals but pleasant enough, with shrink Fred trying to find out why patient Ginger keeps postponing her wedding.

Mark Sandrich directed in 1938; the songs, by 11 45 THE BLACK CAT. There are two horror movies re-run biography as Margaret Kelly, now forming the troupe which is to become known as the Bluebell Girls, but worried about their future with the likelihood of war increasing. Ceefax sub-titles. ana getting invoivea in a territorial oame between rival gang bosses. With Tony Doyle as the criminal client, young Edward Rawle-Hicks as Bulman's long-lost son.

Oracle subtitles. uving oenin inciuue onange ranners. Ceefax sub-titles. 9 50 NEWS; Sport; Weather. 10 5 ON STAGE.

Glyn worsnip hears more 10 30 THE MISSOURI BREAKS. Arthur Penn's violent 10 5 MIAMI VICE: Florence Italy. It's Grand Prix 11 30 The Roxy. 12 0 News. 12 5 Wrestling.

1 5 Film: Attack on the Iron Coast. 2 45 Football: Coventry v. Everton. 5 0 News. 5 5 Walt Disney Presents.

5 15 Champion Blockbusters. 6 0 Cue Gary! 6 45 Kate and Ted's Show. 7 15 Five Alive. 7 45 As Granada. 12 45 Signs of a Saint; close.

Border 6 55 As Granada. 11 30 The Roxy. 12 0 News. 12 5 Wrestling. 1 5 Film: Attack On The Iron Coast.

2 45 Football: Coventry v. Everton. 5 0 News. 5 5 Walt Disney Presents. 5 15 Champion Blockbusters.

6 0 Cue Gary! 6 45 Kate and Ted's Show. 7 15 Five Alive. 7 45 As Granada. 12 45 Weather; close. Central 6 10 Joblinder.

6 55 As Granada. 11 30 The Roxy. 12 0 News. 12 5 Wrestling. 1 0 Rim: Attack on the Iron Coast.

2 45 Football: Coventry Everton. 5 0 News. 5 5 Walt Disney Presents. 5 15 Champion Blockbusters. 6 0 Cue Gary.

6 45 Kate and Ted's Show. 7 15 Five Alive. 7 45 As Granada. 11 45 Film: Spectre. 1977 supernatural thriller with Gordon Jackson, John Hurt.

12 15 Prisoner Cell Block H. 1 10 The Best of Benny Hill. 2 45 Live Boxing: Mike Tyson Tony Tucker; News; Jobfinder theatrical tall tales including some about "the Scottish play" from Joss Ackland, Peter A -J ft a South-West 6 55 As Granada. 11 30 The Roxy. 12 0 News.

12 5 Wrestling. 1 0 Rim: Attack on the Iron Coast. 2 45 Football: Coventry Everton. 5 0 News; Newsport. 5 7 The Smurfs.

5 30 Blockbusters. 6 0 Cue Gary. 6 45 Kate and Ted's Show. 7 15 As Granada. of that name, both starring Bela Lugosi: this is the later, 1941 yarn, a haunted-house thriller with comic relief, also with Broderick Crawford, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard and a young Alan Ladd.

1 0THE BIG COMBO. Cornel Wide leads this tough and violent gangster thriller, made in 1955 in the film noir style of the previous decade as a policeman obsessed with bringing crime king Richard Conte to justice, whatever the cost. Directed by Joseph Lewis, with Brian Donlevy, Jean Wallace. 2 40 Close. nuamson, raincia oraiuj, ana oir nnicnaei Horaem.

time in Miami but thats no excuse for speeding, reckon the Florida lawmen, chasing after a particularly racy number in time to see something flying out of the window Ceefax sub-titles. and muddled 1976 Western with Marlon Brando hired by cattle ranchers to eliminate Jack Nicholson's gang of rustlers and horse thieves. Over-the-top performances from both stars (including Brando in drag), and nobody, even the director, apparently having the least idea of where the film's heading. 10 30 RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK. Christopher Lee as tne ovengan or isanst Russia in Don 10 55 MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS.

More unaija inaiuiiuairy vvuuuiy riaiumui anarchy from the archives. 12 45 ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: Road Hog. 10 30 Rim: Neighbours. 1981 maae in i9bt. 11 25 TAKE A HARD RIDE.

Anthony M. Dawson's comeoy witn jonn bbiu-shi. Dan Ackrovd. 12 0 THE NANNY. Why is her young charge 12 20 am Postscript; weather; An arrogant travelling salesman gets nis comeuppance.

10 THE BEST OF BENNY HILL. Compilation of blue jokes from vintage TV shows, released as a film in 1974. ciose. terrified of the trusted, kindly English nanny S4C: 11 15 Symphony. 11 45 What the Papers Say.

12 0 Six Centuries of Verse. 12 30 Space Craft. 1 0 Film: The Great Waltz. 1938 Stauss biopic with Luise Rainer, Femand Gravel. 3 0 Racing from Newmarket.

5 0 The Struggles for Poland. 6 0 Ar Creigiau yn Steddfod. 7 35 Newyddion. 7 45 Siarabang. 8 15 Eisteddfod Genedlaelhol Frenhinol Cymru.

9 15 Deryn. 10 25 The Best of the Paul Hcgan Show. 11 0 Arthur and Phil Go Off to Marbella. 11 45 Film: Black Cat. 1941 murder mystery with Broderick Crawford.

Huah Herbert. Basil Rathbone. 1 Rim: The Bia Tyne Tees stodgy spaghetti Western, filmed in the Canary Islands, stars Jim Brown as the ranch foreman charged with safe delivery of a bankroll across the Mexican border, Lee Van Cleef as one of the many baddies who'd like to relieve him of it. Made it 1975. 5 Weather; close.

(Bene uavis in an unusually restrainea; performance) who impresses everyone else? William Dix is the disturbed lad in Seth Holt's! 1965 chiller, also featuring Jill Bennett, 2 45 UNDISPUTED WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP: Mike Tyson v. Tony Tucker. Live from the Las Vegas Hilton. 4 0 Close. Combo.

1955 cops and robbers with Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace. 2 40 Diwedd. Pamela Franklin. 1 35 Close. 12 30pm Mas Drwn.

1 0 Madog. 7 O-Clote Gweler 9 30 Miri Madog. Newyddion: Miri Radio 4. 6 55 11 30 12 0 12 5 1 5 1 5 2 45 5 0 5 5 5 15 6 0 6 45 7 15 7 45 1 10 As Granada. The Roxy.

News. Wrestling. Cartoon Time. 1966 World Cup. Football: Coventry Everton.

News. Walt Disney Presents. Champion Blockbusters. Cue Gary! Kate and Ted's Show. 5 Alive.

As Granada. World Cup. 6 0 am Mark Page. 8 0 Peter Powell. 6 0 am As Radio 4.

7 0 News: 30 Weekend Break. 8 0 News-9 30 Saturday Connection. McDonald's Saturday Club. Scotland (370m): Weekly Report. 7 week Scotland.

10 30 Alastair 10 0 Dave Lee Travis. 1 Dm Adrian Juste. 2 0 The Stereo Sequence including: 2 0-3 0 Behind the Mask Maws ma tiora. 2 summer News; Take the Floor. 7 0- 12 30 pm Jimmy Sportsound.

6 0 Clow As Radio 4, 5 55 Shipping Forecast. 6 0 News Briefing; The Farming Week. 6 50 Prayer for the Day. 7 0 Today including 7 0, 8 0 News; 7 40, 8 47 Today's Papers; 7 45 In Perspective. 9 0 News; Sport on 4.

9 30 Breakaway: Holidays and leisure maaazine. ine eric isiapion oiory. 4 u-o ine New American Chart Show. 6 30-7 30 Grampian In Concert: The Saints. Dlus vow- 1 mmiM 1 Wow.

7 30 Simon Mayo. 9 30-12 0 Dixie Peach. BBC World Service can be received in Western 10 11 0 News; Loose Ends with Ned Sherrin. 0 Talking Politics. Summer tour 5 0 The Living World: on the teeming life under our feet.

5 25 Week Ending. Satirical review. 5 50 Shipping forecast; Weather; Travel. 6 0 News; Sport. 6 25 In the Psychiatrist's Chair: Dame Janet Baker tells Dr Anthony Clare about the influences on her life.

7 0 Saturday Night Theatre: Trent's Last case. Classic whodunnit by E. C. Bentley. 8 30 Baker's Dozen.

Richard Baker with favourite records. 9 30 Thriller! A Fatal Inversion, by Ruth Rendell (6). 9 50 Ten to Ten. Reading, hymn and reflection. 10 0 News.

10 15 In Keeping with Tradition: Dr Denys Vaughan, Keeper of the clocks in the Science Museum, London. 10 30 Braden Beside Himself. 11 0 Even Looser Ends. Rebroadcast of this morning's 'Loose 12 0 News; Weather; Interlude. 12 33 Shipping Forecast.

VHF: 1 55-2 0 did Programme News. 0 am David Bussev. 6 0 Graham 5 45 Himalaya, 5: Imperilled Politics. John Keay on why democracy fails to flourish in the mountains. 6 30 Music for Organ.

Dupre: Preludes and Fugues Op 36 No 1 and Op 7 No Cortege et Utanie; Final in G. Played by Jane Watts at the organ of Westminster Cathedral. 7 0 Music and Sweet Poetry. Madrigals from John Mundy's Songs and Psalmes (1594). Performed by the Consort of Musicke, dir.

Anthony Rootey. 7 30 Proms 87 NPO of Radio France, cond. Marek Janowski, Cecils Ousset (piano). Ravel: Mother Goose Suite; Debussy: Prelude a I'apres-midi d'un -faune; Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No 2. 8 25 For Friends Only.

Poetry reading. 8 45 Prom, part 2. Chausson: Symphony in Rat. 9 35 The Enemy Within. Stephen Fender on popular American war fiction.

9 55 Hungarian String Quartets by Dohnanyi and Kurtag. Played by the Chilingirian Quartet. Kniaht. 8 5 David Jacobs. 10 0 oi ins constituencies wnn Mrs, 1: With Conservative Alistair Burt in Bury North.

11 27 From our own CorresDondent. Sounds of the 60s. 11 0 Album Time. Ulster 6 55 As Granada. 11 30 The Roxy.

12 0 News. 12 5 Wrestling. 1 5 Film: Attack on the Iron Coast. 2 45 Football: Coventry v. Everton.

5 0 News. 5 5 Walt Disney Presents. 5 15 Champion Blockbusters. 6 0 Cue Gary! 6 45 Kate and Ted's Show. 7 15 Five Alive.

7 45 As Granada. 1 0 pm Wise on the Wireless. 1 30 Sport on 2. 6 0 The Impressionists. 6 30 Sonq by Song bv Sondheim.

7 0 12 0 The Big Day. Feline rivalries at City of London Sinfonia Richard Hickox); Telemann: Concerto in A minor for treble recorder, oboe, violin and continuo (Chandos Baroque Players); Haydn: Symphony No 103 Drum Roll (ECOJeffrey Tate). 10 40 Christian Zacharias (piano). C. P.

E. Bach: Rondo in minor; Schubert: Sonata in flat. 11 20 BBC Welsh SOAndrew Davis, Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Philip Langridge (ten), John Birch (organ), BBC Welsh Chorus, Cardiff Polyphonic Choir, Ardwyn Singers, South Glamorgan Junior High Schools Choir. Beethoven: Overture Leonora No Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; (12 5 Interval); Berlioz: Te Deum. 1 0 News; Salomon Quartet.

Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in minor; Boccherini: Quartet in Mozart: Quartet K428. 2 0 Maria Callas: recital of operatic arias by Bellini, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Cifea, Gustave Charpentier, Spontini, and Weber; (3 25 Interval); Cavalleria Rusticana. Mascagni's one-act opera with Callas in the role of Santuzza, Giuseppe di Stefano as Turiddu, Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala Milan, cond. Tullio Serafin. 5 0 Jazz Record Requests.

the Lancashire Cat Club show in Manchester. Three in a Row. 7 30 Music from the 12 25 Quote Unquote. Who-said-it 6 55 As Granada. 11 30 The Roxy.

12 0 News. 12 0 Wrestling. 1 0 Rim: Attack On The Iron Coast. 2 45 Film: Tales of Manhattan. 1942 life history of a dress suit.

5 0 News. 5 5 Walt Disney Presents. 5 15 Champion Blockbusters. 6 0 Cue Gary! 6 45 Kate and Ted's Show. 7 15 Five Alive.

7 45 As Granada. 12 50 Reflections; close. HTV 6 55 As Granada. 11 30 The Roxy. 12 0 News.

12 5 Wrestling. 1 5 Cartoon Time. 1 15 World Cup '66. 2 45 Football: Coventry Everton. 5 0 Nbws 5 5 Walt Disney Presents.

5 15 Champion Blockbusters. 6 0 Cue Gary! 6 45 Kate and Ted's Show. Movies. 9 30 String Sound. 10 5 Martin Kelner.

12 5 am Night Owls. 1 0 Nick Paige. 3 0-4 0 A Little Night Music. VHF: As Radio 2 except 1 0 pm-7 30 As Radio 1. Europe on medium wave 648 kHz (463m) at the following times GMT: 6 0 am Newsdesk.

6 30 Meridian. 7 0 News. 7 9 Twenty-Four Hours. 7 30 From the Weeklies. 7 45 Network UK.

8 0 News. 8 9 Reflections. 8 15 A Jolly Good Show. 9 0 News. 9 9 Review of the British Press.

9 15 The World Today. 9 30 Financial News; Look Ahead. 9 45 Society Today. 10 1 Here's Humph! 10 15 Letter from America. 10 30 Londres Midi.

11 0 News. 11 9 News about Britain. 11 15 Sounding Brass. 11 30 Meridian. 12 0 Radio Newsreel.

12 15 pm Multitrack 3. 12 45 Sports Roundup. 1 0 News. I 9 Twenty-Four Hours. 1 30 Network UK.

1 45 Saturday Special. 3 0 Radio Newsreel. 3 15 Saturday Special. 4 0 News. 4 9 Commentary.

4 15 English by Radio. 4 45 Londres Soir. 5 30 Heute Aktuel. 7 0 Live Relay: Promenade Concert. 7 40 Interlude.

7 45 Good Books. 8 0 News. 8 9 Twenty-Four Hours; News Summary. 8 30 Jazz for the Asking. 9 1 Characters at Court.

9 15 Music for a While. 9 30 Power to the People. 10 0 News. 10 9 From our own Correspondent. 10 30 New Ideas.

10 40 Reflections. 10 45 Sports Roundup. 11 0 News. II 9 Commentary. 11 15 Nature Notebook.

11 30 Anything Goes. 12 0 News. 12 9 am News about Bntain. 12 15 Radio Newsreel. 12 30 Talking About Music.

1 1 Play of the Week: The Vacky. 2 0 News. 2 9 Review of the British Press. 2 15 Coming Home. 2 30 Album Time.

3 0 News. 3 9 News about Britain. 3 15 From our own Correspondent. 3 30 Six Four Eight. 3 40 Financial News.

3 45 Morgenmagazin. 4 45 The World Today. 5 0 News. 5 9 Twenty-Four Hours. 5 30 Londres Malin.

12 45 News; Sport. game. 1 0 News. 1 10 With Great Pleasure: Playwright Alan Bleasdate presents nis favourite prose and poetry to an audience at Liverpool Playhouse. 1 55 Shipping forecast.

2 0 News; Second Edition. Gillian Reynolds finds common themes among Radio 4's magazine programmes. 3 0 News; Afternoon Play: A Patriot for Mrs Blythe. Psychological drama by Alan Berrie. 4 30 S04 (Science on 4).

Research news. 6 35 Open University; Weather. 4 30-6 0 pm Options: American Authors 3: Sylvia Plath; 5 0 The State of Industry; 5 30 Franc-Parler. 10 40 BBC Singers at St John's. Yorkshire 6 55 As Granada.

11 30 The Roxy. 12 0 News. 12 5 Roses Cricket. 1 25 A.L.F. 1 55 As Granada.

12 45 Rim: The Salamander. 1983 political thriller. 2 35 Jobfinder. 3 35 Close. Wales (340m): 4 0 am As Radio 2.

7 0 Wales News: Burnt Toast! 9 3 Richard Reas and the Killer Hertz. 11 30 On Die Road. 1 0 Wales News. 1 10 Stan Stennatt's Country. 2 0 tiizarjem Maconcny: ureaiures.

Judith Bingham: first performance of A Winter Walk at Noon. (11 15 Interval); David Lang: By hire; Priaulx Rainier: Reauiem. news; rvtorning ivoncen. 0 News; Stereo Release. Handel: Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 10 (Northern SinfoniaGeorge Malcolm); Scarlatti: Sonata in (Peter Katin, piano); Mozart: Concerto in (Philippa Davies, flute, Rachel Masters, harp, Summer Spin.

6 0-4 0 am As Radio 2. Cymru (VHF): 55 am Gweler Radio 4. 8 0 Newyddion; Dros (y Sbedol. 8 10 Byd Amaeth. 8 30 Hamdden Hal.

9 0 Newyddion; Cadw Reiat. 11 57 News. GARDENING you'd be bursting into bloom in double quick time. Stefan Buczacki looks at the factors which persuade plants to flower. If you were the only plant in the world.

Odd jobbing by Hilary Applegate THERE is just time to acquire and plant out colchicums, autumn-flowering crocuses, and delightful hardy cyclamen. The Madonna lily can also be put in now, under about 25mm 5 (lin) of soil. Laurel hedges can be pruned this month; with these as with other large- 1 leaved hedges, secateurs are more appropriate than shears which would cut and disfigure the foliage. Laurel in a shrub border does not need regular pruning; only errant branches which are a nuisance need be cut back. On our allotment both weeds and crops are flourishing, the former despite the best efforts of Martin and myself.

As we expected when we took over the tenancy in April, every- where that is not covered with black plastic spawns shoot after shoot of bindweed and creeping thistle. We are growing fruit and vegetables in beds, which we shall never walk on. This means that each time we pull a weed up, the un- consolidated ground yields a -substantial length of root. The weeds are thoroughly dried in the summer sun before being added to the compost heap. We weren't ready in time to plant shallots, but the foliage of those on neighbouring plots is yellowing and the bulbs will soon be ready for digging up, separating, and drying.

Ripened bulbs can then be stored in a cool but frost-free place until required for the pot. bought a large number of shrubs last autumn and was concerned to discover that very few flowered this year and that those that did only produced blooms for a very short period. Understandably, the gentleman wondered why. To some degree, I feel that the plaintiff fell into the all too common trap of looking at matters horticultural from an an-thropocentric stance. For unfortunate as it may seem (especially when you have paid up to five pounds a piece for them), plants were not put on the planet simply to give us something with which to enhance our gardens and gladden the eye.

Plants exist to produce more plants which, by and large, they do through the medium of flowers. And in the altruism that is nature's way, it is the survival of the species that matters and the individual can be and is sacrificed to this end. But the individual does have I FOUND MYSELF humming a tune the other day, for no apparent reason other than that I must have heard it played somewhere recently. The tune was actually one that you will know (and after writing this, no doubt it will be heard all moiing in the gardens of jardian-reading households up and down the land); not the must subtle of ditties but quite simply, "If you were the only girl in the world Even by my often rather tortuous reasoning, you may think this surely cannot have any immediate relevance to any gardening subject but for those with fertile imagination, it certainly does. And, shortly, I shall reveal all.

For I received a letter recently from a reader in Suffolk who was certainly not the only girl in the world or, indeed, a girl of any sort, but a gentleman who had had trouble with his flowering. He had should be able to offer their own experience of flowering times and durations in recent seasons in your area. Now to return briefly to the problems of being the only girl in the world, for one might imagine that whatever the words of the song might suggest, such a precarious state could engender only one thing. Under such threat, procreation must be the order of the day but curiously enough, some years ago, I did encounter the botanical equivalent of the only girl in the world and this proved me wrong. On a remote mountain top on an island in the Seychelles, I was shown the most threatened plant I the medusa tree, of which perhaps a dozen individuals survive in the world.

And although, poor things, they are doing their best and producing masses of seed, it all seems infertile. Truly, I thought, a plant with a death wish. But finally, for anyone interested in the variation in plants' behaviour from season to season, a notebook is essential, for mere memory will always play you tricks. And no better notebook than one thrust into plant that all is well with the world. The process of threat can be helped with a top dressing of potash, and although thereafter there really is no hard and fast rule about when flowering will return, I would expect most to settle down to a flowering rhythm after two or at the most three years.

Shrubs that are bought as bare-rooted plants will also tend to take time to flower but more often because of the shock of transplanting than because of the removal of the threat to their survival. Patience and potash are great virtues in the flowering world. But my correspondent raised another and related matter, for he was concerned that the flowering season of the shrubs that did bloom was considerably shorter than he had been led by his books to believe would be the case. An Amelanchier, he claimed, was actually in bloom for only six days. A quick glance at the reference books and catalogues within reach of my desk offers, as blooming time for Amelanchier, "late spring," "May to June," "Spring," "Spring," "Spring," and "April." I must admit that I would concur with the latter, and although mine blooms for slightly longer than six days, there is a danger in trying to be too precise over something that will inevitably vary by perhaps up to a fortnight between the earliest and the latest seasons.

This is where a good garden centre and its staff are worth their weight in gold, for they a role in building up its structure and form so that it is best equipped to produce the flowers and seeds and thus ensure continuity of its kind when the time comes. And in the latter phrase lies the clue to my reader's chagrin, for "the time" only comes when the individual is threatened. For the annual plant, the threat comes predictably and seasonally as winter approaches, but for perennial shrubs, it may take some while. Allow me to bring this down to practicalities. A plant growing in a container develops a root system that ultimately drains most of the nutrient from the available compost and whilst liquid feeding will go some way towards making amends, the plant becomes, in the popular phrase, pot-bound.

It is thus threatened and it flowers; hence the often splendid displays that we see at garden -centres. We are tempted, the plants are bought, taken home, and planted out in the best text book manner: a planting hole is prepared, peat and fertiliser or a proprietary planting mixture is incorporated, the shrub is placed in position, and a top dressing given to finish off matters. Less of a threat to a plant I can scarcely conceive and the gorgeously blooming bush of the garden centre becomes a mass of lush green leaves. In time, the threat will return, provided we don't apply only nitrogenous fertilisers for this is a sure indication to any TTT (III) V.l J.fld-I.UJM.d.U I HJ.lllMJ.WJ.IiMIJMMaltflH.Haaam I Quickly rot kitchen andgmrdft wasta into rich organic compost kmaptthmganltn tkh tool COMPARE PRICES You could pay over twfca Umm prices for plastic compost bins of these capacities. Buy oirgci irom ing mnnunciurpra anq bto ttfc rui KING SIZE 97 rnhlr 47fn.dla.i27ln.

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