6 40 The Terrestrial Planets. 7.5 Family Comedy. 7.30 The Athabasca Glacier.
Story: What is Summer? written by CELIA LANDRETH Presenters
Carol Chell , Patrick Abernathy
from Royal Troon The 111th Open Championship
HARRY CARPENTER introduces further coverage as the world's leading golfers set out in their bids to capture the elusive title of' Open Champion'. Commentators PETER ALLISS
CLIVE CLARK , BRUCE CRITCHLEY ALEX HAY , MARK MCCORMACK and HENRY COTTON
Directors
FRED VINER , ALASTAIR SCOTT and HUW JONES Producer RICHARD TILLING
Executive producer DAVID KENNING
live from the Barbican Centre in London, introduced by Mary Marquis with specialist comment and assessment by Ralph Holmes.
Part 1: Two finalists perform a concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by Sir Charles Groves
The performances take place in the presence of The Rt Hon the Lord Mayor of London Sir Christopher Leaver who will present the prizes-six to the finalists, a sonata prize, a prize for the most promising finalist under 23, and another for outstanding merit awarded to a non-finalist. There is also a prize, unique in international competitions, awarded by the vote of the audience in the concert hall.
(Part 2 is at 8.0 pm)
with subtitles, followed by Weather
Seamus Heaney presents poems by W. B. YEATS
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry.
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky....
Coole Park in Co Galway, the home of Lady Gregory, was the starting point of the Irish literary renaissance. Seamus Heaney visits Yeats' tower at Ballylee, and Coole, where he still finds the wild swans that inspired Yeats.
Producer JOHN ORMOND
BBC Cymru/Wales
The last of six finalists in the concerto round, followed by the ballot in which the audience in the Barbican Centre nominate their winner of the audience prize. Competition announcer JULIE BERRY
(The result is at 10.30 pm)
Twenty years ago this week The Rolling Stones, the most successful surviving rock band in the world, gave their first show together in a club in London's Soho.
Newsnight's Robin Denselow traces The Rolling Stones' remarkable history, and in exclusive interviews with Mike Jagger, Keith Richards and other members of the band, asks what still keeps The Stones together - and what they have really achieved.
from Royal Troon
The lllth Open Championship
UARRY CARPENTER introduces highlights of the first round and discusses the conditions and leading performances with TONY JACKLIN.
The first of 13 programmes
A new comedy film series in which a group of irreverent young lawyers joins a highly conven. tional old-established law firm. starring , with, and The First Day is nearly the last straw for everyone concerned.
Written by CHARLES HAUCK
Directed by JAMES BURROWS
Introduced by. Mary Marquis
Yfrah Neaman , Chairman of the jury, announces the results of the competition, and the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Christopher Leaver , presents the prizes.
Sound vie GODRICH
Lighting HUBERT CARTWRIGHT Producer DAVID BUCKTON Director RON ISTED
Presented by PETER SNOW , JOHN TUSA and DONALD MACCORMICK
JOAN BAKEWELL has first news of stories from the arts; DAVID ICKE and MARSHALL LEE have the stories from behind the world of sport.
(1782-1837)
The Creator of the Nocturne
JOHN O'CONOR plays No 13, in D minor.
BBC Scotland