Today in Brighton the second national Conference of the Confederation of British Industry begins. BBC2 cameras will bring live coverage of key debates. Reporting team
Vincent Hanna , Ian Ross

Ten films for student nurses. 5: With Cancer Patients
Producer RON BLOOMFIELD

The fifth of ten programmes for trade unionists.

Story:Old George and his Wonderful Pictures by CHARLES and SHEILA FRONT Presenters
Chloe Ashcroft , Bruce Allan

Further live coverage from Brighton.

A series of 20 programmes which aims to help mentally - handicapped people get more out of life.

Ten programmes on the origins of the Arab-Israeli dispute. 5: From Rebellion to War

Ten programmes on hand-knitting and crochet. Presented by JAN LEEMING with PAM DAWSON 5: Hooked on Crochet
Executive producer SHEILA INNES Producer JENNY ROGERS

Ten programmes presented by AUDREY STEPHENSON
5:Thread, Bang and Fit Toys
Series producer PETER RIDING
Producer RON BLOOMFIELD

DAVID VINE introduces the last of five programmes.
The Future of PE - a discussion
Adviser ALAN GIBSON Director IAN HAMILTON
Producer JOHN dobson. BBC Bristol

Further live coverage

with sub-titles for the hard-efhearing, followed by Weather

Ollie's society wedding goes to pieces when Stan arrives with his present - a jigsaw puzzle.
(Black and white)

Three teams compete for the world's smallest trophy 'The Golden Maggot.'
In the second series, the two schoolmasters go to Sweden to defend their title against four other obsessive anglers, among them the rugby scrum-half, Gareth Edwards. They travel over 4,000 miles and on the way encounter the Arctic Circle, a live firing range, a nude lady canoeist and the odd fish.

A History of the Blues
A series of five films
It was in the years after slavery ended that the blues began, in the cottonfields, the labour camp barrelhouses and city red-light districts of the Deep South. Narrator David Lloyd James.

Richard Stilgoe presents an optimists' guide to the news of the week - with the help of the brilliantly-odd Rowan Atkinson, a host of silent friends, international mime artist Adam Darius, the ghosts of John Philip Sousa and Adolphe Sax and Mack Sennett's screen heroes.

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A series of seven programmes Cleopatra's Needles
Narrated by RENÉ CUTFORTH
Cleopatra's Needle finally came to rest on the Thames Embankment 100 years ago. Presented to the British Nation in 1819 by the Viceroy of Egypt, Muhammed Ali (no relation), it took 50 years to get here. In the process, six men were drowned and the needle temporarily abandoned in a storin in the Bay of Biscay.
Needles exist throughout the world: New York, Paris, Rome, Istanbul. And only five are left in Egypt.
But why were they built? What is the significance of their shape? What do the hieroglyphs on their sides say? And why, for 2,000 years, has every aspiring empire felt the need to possess one as some kind of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval?
Chronicle tells the story of their erection in the service of the Egyptian sun god and their removal by pharaohs, emperors, popes and Victorian engineers.
Film cameraman JOHN ELSE Film editor JESSE PALMER Producer PAUL JORDAN Editor BRUCE NORMAN

Starring Des O'Connor who plays host to a gathering of some of the finest entertainment talent from Britain and America.
From Birmingham: Maggie Moone;
from Beverly Hills, California: Red Buttons;
and from County Waterford: Val Doonican

Conceived, written and performed by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
Also appearing The Fred Tomlinson Singers
Animations by Terry Gilliam
Designer Robert Berk
Produced by Ian MacNaughton
Monty Pythons Flying Circus record (REB 73), cassette (REMC 73), from record shops

A series of 13 programmes
by Jonathan Miller
'It's much less about medicine than about the whole business of being alive.'
Tonight, The Body in Question takes Jonathan Miller to Paris, Pompeii and a mortuary in North London. He reveals that, like Dr Who's telephone box, the human body has a much larger interior than one might suppose by viewing the outside. Heart, liver and kidneys are all much bigger than most people imagine and some vital organs like the pancreas and the spleen are virtually unknown to all but doctors. An adult liver weighs over four pounds, but neither its existence, nor its weight can be felt by its owner. It's hardly surprising we have difficulty naming our parts.
A printed version of this programme will appear in The Listener dated ?? November

In which Robert Robinson looks at books, -talks to bookmen and examines the use and abuse of the English language. With Vicky Payne
Director MARTIN L. BELL Producer ANTONY ROUSE

Most of us assume basic human rights such as freedom of speech, belonging to political parties and joining Trade Unions. But all over the world people are being harassed. imprisoned, tortured, exiled and even killed for such things. In this series John Tusa introduces people who have suffered under political repression.
Kofi Awoonor 's story is probably the happiest in the series. He is a Ghanaian poet who was in prison in 1975. To escape arrest a second time he fled to the West. realizing he could never return as long as General Acheampong remained in power. Soon after this programme was recorded Acheam
: pong's regime came to an end and KOFI AWOOKOR is now back in Ghana.
' Prison creates one of the best conditions for reflection ... It was a place for poetry and painful thought but it was also a place for hope.'
Consultant DAVID SIMPSON et Amnesty International
Human Rights Law adviser PAUL SIEGRART
. Producer INGRID DUFFELL
Series producer SHIRLEY DU BOULAY

Six programmes about the creative possibilities of still photography presented by BRYN CAMPBELL 2: ThrPottrait
The visual challenge of portrait photography is illustrated.through the work of American photographer ARNOLD NEWMAN and the British photographers DUFFY and BRIAN GRIFFIN.
Research assistant JOHN BROOKE Producer PETER RIDING
Book (some title), £7.25, from bookshops

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Competition Poem Gary Watson reads
Temporary Jobs by STEVE ELLIS