Live coverage of the second day in Blackpool

Story: "The Square" by Anna Kirk

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

Further coverage from Blackpool

(Shown on Tuesday)

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

A year ago, a sleepy agricultural community in Germany woke to find bulldozers in its midst.
Tonight's film from Hamburg Television charts the ensuing rumpus. It's West Germany's version of Stansted. The development of the new airport at Hamburg is blocked in the courts. So far 9,000 protests - all must be answered individually - have been registered by locals. They urge a switch of their problem to their North Sea coast neighbours.
Introduced by Derek Hart

Sir John Gielgud talking about the theatre.
In the second conversation of the series, Gielgud recalls his great-aunt, Dame Ellen Terry, and other members of the Terry family.

(Colour)

Leeches extracted blood from swollen livers. Arthritics were treated by the removal of their teeth, tonsils and parts of their large intestine. Typical normal cases taken from the records of Charing Cross Hospital in 1922. With the help of today's doctors and nurses, Horizon reconstructs a day in the life of Charing Cross just 50 years ago. And contrasts it with the new Charing Cross shortly to be opened.

The programme shows how much we have advanced, and how people's expectations of life have changed: how much have we gained, or lost?

(Radio Times People: page 5)

Six writers in a second Birmingham season

Holiday work in the countryside brings three young friends peace and tenderness. The richness and innocence of their experience carries with it the seeds of painful disintegration.

by Ralph Vaughan Williams (born 12 October 1872)
A setting for tenor, piano, and string quartet of six poems from A. E. Housman's
A Shropshire Lad
Singer Ryland Davies
Players: Colin Staveley (violin), Clive Lander (violin), Geoffrey York (viola), John Cullis (cello) and Martin Jones (piano)
Actors: Victoria Plucknett and John Ogwen

On the centenary of the composer's birth, this is an impression of the song-cycle, filmed in Shropshire in the spring and summer of this year.
(BBC Wales)
(Radio Times People: page 4)