Today the Conservative Party Conference opens in Blackpool and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates.
Story: "Frederick"
Written and illustrated by Leo Lionni
Further coverage from Blackpool
12.30* Morning Report
A round-up of the debates
2.30 pm Live coverage
Further coverage from Blackpool
What's fair pay for different jobs? That's what the tussle between government and unions is about.
Introduced by Frank Scuffham
Reporting team Alastair Burnet Robin Day and Alan Watson with news and analysis of the main topics on the first day.
This week he describes how he came to record one of the world's most famous rhythms and his experiences working under great conductors, including Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Thomas Beecham.
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Reporters Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, John Pitman, Jack Pizzey, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson
This week: Going to the Dogs
'It's animated roulette... it's a kind of poker... it's easy money.' For the men and women who own Britain's 11,000 racing greyhounds there's a dream of winning a fortune in prize money and gambling. Some pin their hopes on a single dog cosseted at home as one of the family, fed on a secret diet and trained when few people are about. Others kennel 70-80 dogs in the expensive hope of finding a world-beater among them. Some use professional trainers.
It's exciting, heartbreaking and sometimes shady. It draws bigger crowds than horse racing, attracts more gambling money than the football pools, and it's split under two codes. One is governed by a 146-page rule book; the other is an unwritten, free-and-easy game of bluff and counterbluff.
Harold Williamson has been with the dogs, the owners, the winners and the losers.
Starring Jason Robards, Barbara Harris
with Martin Balsam, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Barry Gordon
Murray Burns threw up his lucrative job as chief writer on a children's TV programme and dropped out of the rat race. Since then he's been savouring his freedom; but now Authority, in the persons of two officials from the Child Welfare Board, threatens his tranquillity.
This Week's Films: page 11
with Ian Smith; Weather
Tony Bilbow and Philip Jenkinson trace the development of rock 'n' roll in movies which began with "Blackboard Jungle" in 1955, flourished in the 1960s with the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night" and continues today with "Watts-tax", "Elvis on Tour", "Let the Good Times Roll" and "Jimi Hendrix".
Philip Jenkinson: page 11
