6.40 Rail or Road
7.5 Ideas for the Future
7.30 Whittlesea Mere
Today the Labour Party Conference opens in Blackpool and BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of the debates.
Reporting team Robin Day
David Dimbleby , Robert McKenzie
Story: Robert's Tree House Written by FRANCES LINDSAY Photographs by DAVID GRAHAM BAKER Presenters
Carol Chell , Johnny Ball
Book: Play School Play Ideas 2. 75p. from bookshops. The Tale of a Donkey's Tail and Other Stories from Play School, record (rec 232) or cassette (MRMC 045). Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away, record (REC 242) or cassette (MRMC 004), from record shops
Further coverage from Blackpool.
A series of 20 programmes which aims to help mentally-handicapped people get more out of life.
Notes for parents and teachers, 65p including postage, from BBC Publications, PO Box 234, London, SEl 3TH
Coverage of the afternoon session.
4.55 Shrine of St Peter
5.20 Glaciation
5.45 Maths - Heat Equation
6.10 M101/30 Algebra
6.35 Modelling
with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2 World Chess
If the Championship is still undecided, a report will be included during the evening.
A series of five programmes presented by ROSAMOND RICHARDSON 2: Triangles, Squares and Rectangles
Series producer PETER RIDING
Producer ERICA GRIFFITHS
Weather
Robin Day and David Dimbleby report on the first day of the Labour Party Conference.
Starring Des O'Connor who plays host to a gathering of some of the finest entertainment talent from Britain and America. Des sings, jokes and talks in the company of his guests from both sides of the Atlantic.
Tonight's special guests include from London Norman Wisdom; from New York Elayne Boosler; and from Los Angeles Dale Gonyea
by Barrie Keeffe
Another six directors make their debuts as television film makers.
With Phil Daniels as Kip, Elvis Payne as Rod, and Patrick Murray as Mul
How do you kill time when you're 15 years old, have no money and live in a dull London suburb? Rod, Kip and Mul may be short of cash, but not ideas!
The last flowering of the medieval art of manuscript illustration took place at the end of the 15th century in Flanders.
But the artists of the Burgundian Court were all anonymous; the invention of the printing-press made hand-written books obsolete; and painting on wood and canvas replaced manuscript illumination. So today almost nothing is known about who painted what, and when. In this programme Thomas Kren, of the University of California, traces for the first time the connections of a masterpiece of medieval art - The Hastings Hours - and throws new light on these last great painters of the Middle Ages.
in which Robert Robinson in particular invites Clive Jenkins to review 1985, Anthony Burgess's dark view of our future, and in general examines current English - written, spoken or garbled. With Vicky Fayne
In this series John Tusa introduces people who have suffered under political repression.
Coca Rudolphy used to be an actress in Chile. After Pinochet's military coup in 1973 she was arrested, imprisoned and tortured. Eventually she was found innocent of any crime but she came to England as she could not feel safe in Chile, where so many who had been released were detained again or even just disappearing. 'I'm one of the lucky ones. I am alive and able to speak - thousands have been less fortunate.'
(Repeated next Sunday afternoon)
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The programme in which the BBC hands over air-time to the public. Tonight's programme is a double-bill.
Punch-Up! is a short comedy film by Ken Ellis which shows the dangers behind the scenes of a Punch and Judy show.
Dinosaurs in the Playground made by Clare Calder Marshall shows how a grim Victorian playground in London was transformed by the children, teachers and a group of artists and art students.
Made with the help of the Community Programme Unit.
(Rpt Sun afternoon)
Michael Kligarriff reads Nile Fisherman by REX WARNER (Rpt)
