7.5 Maths - Heat Equation

7.30 The Composer and his Audience

Today the Conservative Party Conference opens in Blackpool and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates. Reporting team: Robin Day and Richard Wakely

Story: Where's That Key? written by MARY THOMPSON photographs by JAMES MATTHEWS-JOYCE Presenters
CHLOE ASHCROFT , DON SPENCER

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

2.30 Live coverage of the afternoon session.

5.0 Maths - Splitting Fields

5.25 Men and Mountains

5.50 Maths Analysis - Convergence

6.15 Modelling

A 24-part French course for beginners on tv and radio
Programme 2: with Gilles Dattas, Paul Couster, Carolle Rousseau, Elma Soiron,
Alain Garanger, Alain Marguerite Clarisse Nouel
Scripts by Jean-Claude Arragon, Mireille Fleming, Antoine Tudal
Director Terry Doyle
Producer Tony Roberts
(Carolle Rousseau is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
Repeated on BBC1 Wednesday, 12.5 pm and Sunday, 10.10 am.
Ensemble radio programmes: Wednesdays at 7.0 pm (R3 medium wave) and Sundays at 3.0 pm (R4 VHF)
Book (same title) £1.30; record £1.73; cassette £2.81, from bookshops

with Ludovic Kennedy , Robin Day Today's News from Angela Rippon is followed by an interview with a man or woman behind the headlines.

Robert Robinson introduces a weekly look at hardbacks and paperbacks, fact and fiction, best-sellers and remainders.
This week's readers and writers: Beryl Bainbridge... 'I'm not sure that I ever write fiction. It's almost as if every character is based on me.' She talks about her books, including her latest novel Sweet William.
In the studio Claire Tomalin, Jill Tweedie and Margaret Powell discuss Sweet William together with Realms of Gold by Margaret Drabble, and the US bestseller Looking for Mr Goodbar by Judith Rossner.

for the BBC2 Trophy
Hull KR v Huddersfield
Commentator EDDIE WARINC
Producer RAY LAKELAND

The first in a short season of films featuring three famous Hollywood ' hoofers ' - Gene Kelly , George Murphy and Fred Astaire. Tonight starring
Gene Kelly as Eddy Marsh with Kathryn Grayson Mary Astor , John Boles and the MGM Star Parade:
Mickey Rooney , Judy Garland Red Skelton , Eleanor Powell Ann Sothern , Lucille Ball
Virginia O'Brien, Frank Morgan Lena Home, Marsha Hunt
Marilyn Maxwell , Donna Reed
Margaret O'Brien. June Allyson Gloria Dellaven , John Conte Sara Haden
DON LOPER and MAXINE BARRAT
KAY KYSER AND HIS ORCHESTRA
BOB CROSBY AND HIS ORCHESTRA
BENNY CARTER AND HIS BAND
THE MGM DANCING GIRLS and JOSE ITURBI
Director GEORGE SIDNEY Films: page 10

takes a look at today's Rock Music, with films, album tracks, reviews and guests.
In the studio: Druid
Sadistic Mika Band and ANDREW BAILEY
Introduced by Bob Harris
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON

Angela Rippon ; Weather

GABRIEL woolf reads Moonlit Apples by JOHN DRINKWATER