S.40 Pollination. 7.5 Whittlesea Mere.
7.30 Concrete and Steel.
Live coverage of the second day of the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. Reporting team
SIR ROBIN DAY , DAVID DIMBLEBY
Further coverage from Blackpool.
Ravel's Introduction and Allegro is examined to show the characteristics of the instruments when playing alone and together. This is followed by a performance of the work by the Nash Ensemble.
Producer DAVID SELIGMAN
A BBC/Open University production
previewing daytime programmes of special interest from the Open University. This week's selection includes Herod and Judaea and Geologist on the Moon.
continues a season of films celebrating the 60th anniversary of BBC Radio starring
Tommy Handley, Greta Gynt
When Mayor Handley decides to invest the town's rates in a theatre, the residents and councillors of 'Foaming at the Mouth' are decidedly apprehensive. Not without reason since Tommy has been 'sold a pup'. A desperate situation is saved only by one of the most chaotic theatrical benefits in showbusiness history and an unexpected windfall.
Handley and his team of regulars helped keep Britain going during the war and post-war years despite bombs, rationing and the like....
Screenplay by HOWARD IRVING YOUNG , TED KAVANAGH Produced by EDWARD BLACK Directed by WALTER FORDE
Aprogrammemadebyyoungpeople Anxious Moments
Boy: I think I'm lost.
Girl: Man is never lost, only con. fused in his surroundings.
Boy: I think I'm confused.
Girl- Man is never confused, only lost in his surroundings.
Years of living with 75-year-old, antique-dealing theatrical costumiers and holiday makers, drunk for a day in the shadow of an oriental pavilion, have taken their toll on the Brighton production panel that made this programme.
They perform pieces based on events from everyday life with their own peculiar perspective.
Waking, walking, eating, meeting.
But life is never as simple as that, neither is the programme. Boy: Isn't life strange?
Girl: Compared with what? Music from Birds with Ears
Made with the help of THE COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT
with subtitles, followed by Weather
from Golburn Cottage, Uppermill.
Dry-stone walling, heather and bog gardens are discussed in this week's programme, when Geoff Hamilton visits Joan Petford. She has created her own personal haven from a broken-down cottage and overgrown field, high in the rugged and exposed Pennines.
Executive producer JOHN KENYON
Production assistant JEAN LAUGHTON Producer oenis w. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill
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The weekly television review presented by Ludovic Kennedy , who discusses the drama serial about a fostered child Claire (BBC1), the drama documentary on the history of the Women's Co-operative Guild, God Speed Co-operation (BBC2) and Chicken Ranch (Central) a film about a luxury whorehouse in the Nevada desert, with Colin Welland, actor and Oscar-winning playwright of Chariots of Fire, Beatrix Campbell, author of a history of the feminist movement, Sweet Freedom, and the former chief of Playboy in Europe Victor Lownes.
Plus a profile of 'Europe's first television station from space', Satellite Television plc.
Assistant producers CLARE PATERSON, CAROL OWENS Director STEPHEN GARRETT Producer JOHN ARCHER
In the last of the present series Frank Muir and John Amis challenge
Denis Norden and Ian Wallace in the popular musical quiz with questions set by Steve Race
Television presentation DOUGLAS HESPE
The last of five films about ways of life in different parts of the world. Muria
The Muria live in a relatively isolated area of central India. Their way of life differs from the general Indian pattern in many respects.
One important difference is the independence of spirit encouraged in Muria girls and boys. They sleep separately from their parents in the ' ghotul a dormitory and meeting house for the young. As members of the ghotul, their dancing and singing display Muria culture at its most splendid. But their marriages are arranged by their parents, and at marriage the young must leave the carefree life of the ghotul. Sometimes they rebel against their fate-in fact, their parents half expect them to. Narrator SNEH GUPTA
Photography ERNEST VINCZE Sound JUDY FREEMAN Film editor IAN PITCII
Assistant producer MICHAEL YORKE Series producers
CHRIS CURLING and MELISSA L-DAVIES BBC Bristol
Each spring for 500 years, Sicilian fishermen have hauled their nests in the 'mattanza' - a spectacular harvesting of the giant bluefin tuna. But this year, the nets were almost empty.
The Kodak Masters
Bowls Tournament from
Beach House Park, Worthing
The second semi-final in this series of flat-green bowling programmes. Each year the interest in this tournament has increased and the stands at Worthing were once again packed to see bowling of the highest calibre. Commentators DAVID VINE, DAVID RHYS JONES
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSTON
and Labour Conference Report
JOHN TUSA , PETER SNOW and VINCENT HANNA with a full report from the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool; DONALD MACCORMICK and JOAN BAKEWELL in London to assess the news at home and abroad.
in the company of David Hepworth and Mark Ellen takes a look at the rock scene with studio guests Psychedelic Furs The Bluebells
Plus news, views, clues and reviews.
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON