With Philippa Forrester.

7.30 Johnson and Friends

7.40 Playdays
The Playground Stop.

8.00 Blood and Honey
(Stereo)

Live from Portsmouth with the Prime Minister, John Major.
Including at 8.15 and 9.00 News; plus weather forecasts

(Details on Tuesday at 2.15pm on BBC2)

On this day 50 years ago the 5,000 ships of the invasion armada set sail for northern
France in the biggest military operation of the Second World War. Live coverage of the commemorations continues today.
Drumhead Service - Departure
In Portsmouth the seaborne landings are remembered with a special open-air service attended by the Queen, President Clinton and the heads of state of the other Allied countries as well as 50,000 veterans and their families.
12.15* The Flotilla Review
More than 5,000 Allied veterans, assembled on board the QE2, the Canberra and other civilian ships anchored in the Solent, wait to repeat their historic voyage. After a fly past the heads of state on the royal yacht Britannia will review the flotilla. Executive producer Peter Hylton Cleaver
Editor Philip S Gilbert Stereo

First part of the three-episode omnibus edition.
Continues at 4.40pm.

(Stereo) (Subtitled)

Those who took part in the daring airborne attack behind enemy lines and those who lost their lives in naval operations at sea are remembered this afternoon.
The Airborne Assault
The glider assault on Pegasus Bridge and the paratroop landings nearby are marked by a 1,000-strong parachute jump.
3.50 Naval Commemoration at Sea
As the flotilla reaches the middle of the Channel a brief service of remembrance is followed by an Allied wreath-laying ceremony.

Conclusion.

The guest judges for the last heat are Charles Kennedy, President of the Liberal Democrats, and Rowley Leigh of London's Kensington Place restaurant. With Loyd Grossman. Producer Richard Bryan ; Executive producers Bradley Adams and Richard Kalms
A Union Pictures production for BBCtv

With Moira Stuart. Subtitled
Weather Richard Edgar

From Portsmouth. On the eve of the 50th anniversary of D-Day Pam Rhodes meets people whose lives were changed because of it. Hymns sung in St Thomas 's Cathedral include: Praise My Soul the King of Heaven; All My Hope on God Is Founded; Abide with Me and 0 God Our Help in Ages Past. Producer R Medwyn Hughes Editor Helen Alexander

A vintage episode from 1976 of Roy Clarke's comedy series.
Gordon, Compo's shy nephew, has overcome his timidness and is getting married to Josie.

Farcical comedy by Michael Frayn , starring John Cleese Alison Steadman
Punctilious headmaster Brian
Stimpson is due to address a conference in Norwich and has planned his journey to the last detail. But he misses his train.
With Constance Chapman , Joan Hickson , Ann Way , Pat Keen , Geoffrey Hutchings ,
Tony Haygarth and Michael Aldridge. Director Christopher Morahan (1986)
FILM REVIEWS pages 51-58

With Peter Sissons. Subtitled
Weather Richard Edgar

Every night this week, mixing modern technology with archive film and reports, Sue Lawley presents the D-Day news of 50 years ago as if it were happening today. Among the voices of yesterday are Richard Dimbleby , Colin Wills and Chester Wilmot.
On this day in 1944 Gone with the Wind closed in London after a record-breaking fouryears and two months and millions of radio listeners heard that the D-Day invasion was under way. Producer TilmanRemme; Executive producer
HughPurcell

"This is a film entirely about veterans," says Charles Wheeler about his two-part documentary. "There are no historians, no pundits. All the people in the film, including me, are Normandy veterans."
Wheeler describes his personal experiences of the first 24 hours of Operation Overlord and talks to French civilians as well as British and German servicemen, some of whom revisit the sites where they lost friends and experienced the most intense moments of their lives. By talking to the people who were there, he gives a vivid and dramatic picture of what it was really like to be in Normandy in June 1944 when the liberation of western Europe began.
The second part, The Battle for Normandy, can be seen tomorrow at 9.55pm.
Producer Mark Fielder ; Executive producer
PeterSymes

Highlights of today's commemorative events in Portsmouth and Normandy.
Introduced by John Tusa. With commentary by Eric Robson , Julian Tutt , Raymond Baxter and Brian Hanrahan.

Lieutenant Colonel John Fass toasted the news of his son's birth on a Normandy battlefield after the D-Day landings. He was killed a few moments later.
Lay preacher Michael Fass pays a visit to the grave of the father he never met.
Director Claire Hobday
Producer Rosemary Dawson