Presented by Laurie Mayer and Fran Morrison with reporters SUSANNAH GREENBERG and MAGGIE NELSON
MICHAEL WALE is at the South East sports desk
At 6.25 Nationwide with Sue Lawley , Richard Kershaw and Hugh Scully.
Today Nationwide begins a series of three reports about life in the Soviet Union following the death of President Brezhnev. Sue Lawley is in Tashkent and Samarkand in the largely Muslim part of the Soviet Union to discover how far Moscow's influence extends over the ethnic minorities.
Sue will be reporting on what Soviet children learn about the West, and seeing what Soviet housewives can buy and how long they have to queue for it. Later in the week Christopher Lee -formerly the BBC's man in Moscow-will be looking at how the new Kremlin works. Including Watchdog
Producers MICHAEL HOGAN. PAUL WOOLWICH Deputy editors PHILIP HARDING , IAN SQUIRES Editor ROGER BOLTON