6.40 Alternative Technology

7.5 Reading Development

7.30 The Jet Engine

Today the Labour Party Conference opens in Blackpool and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates. Reporting team:
Robin Day, David Dimbleby and Robert McKenzie
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Today's story Henny Penny is from a farm in Wetherby, Yorkshire.
Storyteller Jon Glover Presenters this week
Floella Benjamin , Johnny Ball
Btmk, More Stories from Play School, 35p, from bookshops. The Tale of a Donkey's Tail and Other Stories from Play School, record (No 232) £1.79, or cassette (No 045) £1.95, from record shops

Further coverage from Blackpool.

2.0 pm Live coverage of the afternoon session.

5.0 The Handicapped - The Swedish Fokus

5.25 Earthquakes

5.50 Identical Particles

6.15 Foundation Maths - Equations

6.40 What is Design?

A series of five programmes 4: Work It Out!
How to solve problems by using the experts; how to learn from discussion.
Presented by BOB HOULTON
Director SUZANNE DAVIES
Producer TONY MATTHEWS
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Michael Charlton and Charles Wheeler present news and opinion on events and issues of the day, including tonight and every Monday, Foreign Report from BBC news correspondents round the world. with Richard Kershaw and newsreader Richard Baker
Editor JOHN TISDALL

First in a series of six programmes in which Max gives you songs and stories of the 20s to the 70s, Tonight: The 1920s
Flappers - short skirts and flat chests -very rich and very poor-the Music Hall-G. H. Elliott - Albert Whelan - silent films and then sound with The Jazz Singer - 2LO and the arrival of radio - great songs of the 20s. with the DOUGIE SQUIRES DOZEN
THE EDDIE LESTER SINGERS and SIMON BEAL
Musical director PETER KNIGHT
Musical arrangements PETER KNIGHT and ALAN ROPER
Choreography DOUGIE SQUIRES Written by ERIC DAVIDSON Costume JOYCE MORTLOCK Designer MICHAEL YOUNG Director STANLEY APPEL Producer JOHN AMMONDS

Four films that take an unfamiliar look at the United States.
Narrated by James Cameron 1: Babes in Hollywood
The 1930s were the golden age of the child movie-star. Scores of tousle-headed moppets were dragged West to Hollywood by movie-struck mothers. It was the Great Depression, and desperate parents were lured to the world's film capital by the promise of easy riches and instant fame -$2,000 a week and top-line billing. But the reality was invariably crueller. A brief and lucky spell in the limelight led almost inevitably to retirement at 12 or 13. And then what for the rest of your life?
This is the story of five of those famous children and what became of them, with rare glimpses of what they looked like on screen. And there's a sixth; the legendary Baby Peggy who was a movie-star back in the 20s, long before the baby bonanza of the 30s boomed. From Hal Roach 's Our Gang, ' Stymie ' Beard and Darla Hood remember what it was like to be America's best-known ' next-door kids '; and Edith Fellows , Dickie Moore and Billy Mauch recall their scenes with Hollywood legends like W. C. FIELDS, MARLENE DIET-RICH and ERROL FLYNN.
Photography RAY HENMAN
Film editor GEOFFREY BOTTERILL Producer STEPHEN PEET
Director CHRISTOPHER COOK

Sing along with us in a song-a-minute sequence of familiar tunes Sung by John Christie , Paul Curtis Kim Davis , Jane Marlow
Elaine Paige , Mike Redway
Carolyn Smyth , Danny Street and (sometimes)
The Fine Tooth Combs with Take Four
Choreography NIGEL LYTHGOE
Musical director BILL SHEPHERD Lighting GEOFF SHAW
Sound PETER ROSE. KEN GREGORY Designer JOHN COLEMAN
Producer JOHNNIE STEWART

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