6.40 Genes and Development

7.5 Earthquakes

7.20 Microbiology

A magazine for Asian viewers including discussions, music and stories from the communities.

Produced and presented by Mahendra Kaul

(Birmingham)

Live coverage of the third day in Blackpool.
Reporting team:
Robin Day and Richard Wakely

Story: Elmer written and illustrated by DAVID MCKEE
Presenters
SARAH LONG , JOHNNY BALL

Further coverage from Blackpool.
12.30* Morning Report
A round-up of the debates

2.0 pm Live coverage of the afternoon session

5.0 Language and Learning

5.25 Architecture and Design

5.50 Reading Development

6.15 The Office of Prime Minister

6.40 Victorian Cast Iron

with Ludovic Kennedy and Robin Day
Today's News from Angela Rippon is followed by an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines.
Throughout each week, Newsday presenters bring you detailed interviews and debates on topical subjects with top people in all parts of the world. Among the programme's guests to date have been ten Government leaders, from countries in Europe (both East and West), Asia, Africa and the Caribbean

The first of a new series starring Twiggy singing and dancing in her own special style. with the IRVING DAVIES DANCERS
PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA and special guest David Essex
Choreography IRVINIC DAVIES
Musical director RONNIE HAZLEHURST Costume NICHOLAS ROCKER Sound LEN SHOREY
Lighting PETER CATLETT
Designer BERNARD LLOYD-JONES Producer BRIAN WHITEHOUSE

This is the first regular television series to be devoted exclusively to the theatre. It will go out every fortnight at this time, alternating with a twin programme which will deal with the visual arts. Each week a different guest will give his own view of what's going on in the theatre.

This week, the director Ronald Eyre looks selectively and critically at what's coming on, or doing well, and recommends his own personal ' best buy.'

Kenneth Tynan talks to Laurence Olivier about Lilian Baylis, the eccentric founder of The Old Vic. Kenneth Tynan says: "The theatre is the cockpit of society: it is here that ideas are argued out, laughed at and worked over. It is our job in Arena: Theatre to make the theatre accessible and comprehensible to the largest possible audience. We hope to celebrate plays, players and playwrights as they are working now and we shall also pass judgement of our own. When a dictatorship takes over, the first cultural institution to be suppressed is the theatre."

There is also a film about David Hockney's sets for The Rake's Progress, now on tour after its success at Glyndebourne.

on behalf of the Conservative Party
(Also on BBC1)

A musical quiz Joseph Cooper as question-master invites you to match your musical wits against Arianna Stassinopoulos, Brian Redhead, John Bird
Guest musician Walter Susskind

by JOSEPH CONRAD : starring
A bomb-throwing incident in 1905 sets off a train of events which ends in a murder and a suicide.
Lighting NIGEL WRIGHT Designer DON HOMFRAY
Producer ROSEMARY HILL DirectorHERBERT WISE
Next Wednesday: Joseph Conrad's ' Under Western Eyes '

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JILL BALON reads The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. YEATS