Today the Conservative Party Conference opens in Blackpool and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates.

Story: "The Obstinate Bird" written and illustrated by Neil Dishington

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Further coverage from Blackpool

The series which examines our working lives

A new factory opens in South Wales, providing women's work in two valleys where there is no tradition of women going out to work. Mothers with young children have decided to work there. How will their decision affect their children, their husbands, their community and themselves?

(Repeated next Sunday afternoon)
(Colour)

with Peter Woods
and at ten-to-eight:
Conference Report
David Holmes reporting from the Conservative Party Conference at Blackpool

Weather

with the London Symphony Orchestra
Leader John Brown
Conducted by Andre Previn

In this centenary programme, Andre Previn talks about the symphonies of the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

(Radio Times People: page 4. A BBC Music Guide is available, price 45p)

Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod is 94 years old and the 28th chief of the clan MacLeod. She lives in Dunvegan Castle on the Isle of Skye, owned by the MacLeods for the last 700 years.
Joan Bakewell talks to Dame Flora about the clan and its history in Dunvegan Castle.

(Colour)

by Arden Winch
with Clive Swift as Inspector Waugh

In which Inspector Waugh Observes the Truth of an Old Music-Hall Song

(Colour)

Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

Once Stepney was a community. Then the war came and knocked most of it down. As concrete blocks spring up where the door-step families used to be, the sense of community seems to have vanished. So the people of Stepney decided to do something about it. They staged their own festival. Result: a huge success for thousands of people. Rose, born in Stepney 40 years ago, commented, 'What was lost is back again, but it's took a long while.'

A second chance to see the highly praised series with writer and critic John Berger.
Tonight he examines paintings of the female nude and asks whether they celebrate women as they really are or as men have traditionally wanted them to be. Five women discuss his analysis.

and Weather

With Tony Bilbow, Michael Dean, Sheridan Morley