6.40 Miroslav Holub

7.5 Moral Philosophy

7.30 Architecture and Design

Today the annual Liberal Assembly opens in Llandudno and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates.
Reporting team: Robin Day and David Dimbleby

Story: The Snail by FRANCES PARTRIDGE Presenters:
CAROL CHELL , DEREK GRIFFITHS

Further coverage from Llandudno (

5.0 Partial Differential Equations

5.25 Maths: Generalised Integration

5.50 Random Sampling

6.15 Art as Performance

6.40 Thomas Carlyle

Ten programmes for beginners. Presented by ANN LADBURY 7: Sleeveless Blouse
How to do gathers, facings and a simple band collar.
Executive producer SHEILA INNES Producer JENNY ROGERS

Presented by Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler with Robin Day from the Liberal Party Assembly in Llandudno and newsreader Angela Rippon

The Viceroy Sent for Me ...
In 1943 Brigadier Wheeler was called away from the battle-fields of North Africa and Italy to become Director-General of Archaeology for the Indian subcontinent.
Tonight, the second of Chronicle's two films on the life of the great archaeologist takes him from a Roman trading station on the Bay of Bengal to Mohenjo Daro-queen of cities of the great Indus Valley civilisation.
Back in England, in 1954, he was voted Television Personality of the Year for his starring role in Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?; almost 20 years later, on the steps of the Parthenon, he could still hold an audience in the palm of his hand. Until his death, Sir Mortimer was still voicing his battle-cry, ' one's whole life is devoted to recreating the past and making it live.'
Introduced by Magnus Magnusson
Film editor KEITH RAVEN
Producer DAVID COLLISON

Tonight a new theatre opens in the Manchester Royal Exchange. The theatre structure sits among the dignified pink marble columns of its host building rather like a lunar module of the arts. It is a dramatic three-tiered structure of glass and steel, seven-sided like a 50-pence piece. It will seat over 700 people in raked seating, at ground level and in two suspended galleries above.
The Royal Exchange Theatre's first season, opening with Sheridan's The Rivals, will bring an impressive list of talents to Manchester. It will include TOM COURTENAY, ALBERT FINNEY, SIR ALEC GUINNESS, LEO MCKERN and TREVOR PEACOCK.
For the artistic directors, MICHAEL ELLIOTT, JAMES MAXWELL, RICHARD NEGRI, CASPAR WREDE and BRAHAM Murray, the new theatre will be, after 20 years, 'a dream come true'. It will be an adventure for them all. An adventure they hope the North-West will share with them.
Arena tonight will look at this exciting new theatrical event in the context of Manchester's theatre background, and its creators will discuss their ideas and aspirations.
Reporter Joan Bakewell
Producer Peter Newington
BBC Manchester
(A.J.P. Taylor on Manchester: Fabric of an Age, Thursday 8.10 pm)

A tragedy by SOPHOCLES
Translated by E. F. WATLING
Eileen Atkins used television magnificently to express Electra's fierce, committed intensity... (daily TELEGRAPH) Electra ... electric and so powerful.
(DAILY MAIL)
Producer CEDRIC MESSINA
Director michael lindsay-hogg

The Aeolian Quartet tonight play String Quartet in C sharp minor. Op 131 - the quartet Beethoven himself regarded as his finest.
Third of five nightly programmes.
Director RODNEY GREEifBERG (Tomorrow: A minor, Op 132)

Angela Rippon ; Weather

JOHN RYE reads
Report on Drinking Habits by VERNON SCANNELL