Simon Potter with a whole Sunday morning of entertainment, starting with:
Laurel and Hardy: Monster Bash
On the way to a Hallowe'en party, Stan and Ollie take the wrong road and end up at someone else's party. (R)
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Simon Potter with a whole Sunday morning of entertainment, starting with:
Laurel and Hardy: Monster Bash
On the way to a Hallowe'en party, Stan and Ollie take the wrong road and end up at someone else's party. (R)
A comedy cartoon with Dick Dastardly as the commander of the notorious vulture squadron sometimes helped by his companion Mutley.
Simon Potter with your views and ideas
Join Mark, Caron and Yvette on board the Omnibus and catch up with their adventures over the past week.
The last in a five-part serial
The school goes swimming, and Miss Perez lends a hand.
Introduced by Nigel Starmer-Smith with Chris Rea Wales v USA
The first full international against the USA should provide an early-season test for the Welsh against a side who gained valuable experience at the World Cup. Commentator in Cardiff
MARTYN WILLIAMS and The Courage English Leagues Division 1
Orrell v Sale
The north-west derby match at Orrell always provides lots of entertainment and with championship points at stake an important result.
Analysis and comment on the action and talking points of the week.
Producer dewi GRIFFITHS
Series producer HUW JONES
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The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship Following eight days and 30 matches, two players have emerged to contest the final of the UK Singles Indoor
Championship. The number of sets has increased to nine, the price of a seat at the Guild Hall has risen, but your armchair is the same as on day one.
This afternoon, the first four sets are played, with the remainder this evening
Introduced by DAVID ICKE from the Guild Hall, Preston
Ashkenazy Plays Schumann For a quarter of a century now, Vladimir Ashkenazy has combined several careers - as concert pianist, recording artist and more recently, as conductor. Today he appears as recitalist, in a programme of music by Schumann, including the Sonata No 1, in F sharp minor, dedicated to Clara Wieck.
Sound BOB GILLIES
Lighting ALAN HENDERSON Producer HILARY BOULDING
A BBCtv production in association with HARRISON PARROTT
PRODUCTIONS and POLYPHON FILM UNDFERNSEBGMBH
The arts and media magazine including
Copyrights and Copycats As the new Copyright Bill begins its passage through Parliament, Robert Sandall asks whether the revolution in recording technology will take popular music back to the people.
Man behind the Masks
Stasys Eidrigevicius is a Lithuanian folk surrealist living in Warsaw who this year has won international competitions for posters and children's illustration in Paris and Barcelona, with exhibitions in Japan and New York.
Visionary Designer
Eileen Gray was a pioneering designer and architect. Peter Adam , her biographer, reveals the complex sides to this private woman, expressed in her exquisite lacquer collector's items, the furniture and fittings she made for herself and her two houses in the south of France, much admired by Le Corbusier.
Directors JULIAN BIRKETT ROSEMARY BOWEN-JONES PAUL PAWLIKOWSKI
Producer JOHN WHISTON Editor JOHN ARCHER
The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship The Final
Further coverage of the first four sets of the final from the Guild Hall, Preston.
Introduced by DAVID ICKE Commentators
DAVID RHYS JONES
JIMMY DAVIDSON
Summarisers MAL HUGHES DAVID MCGILL , JOHN BELL
Television presentation MIKE ADLEY PETER HAYWARD
Producer KEITH PHILLIPS
Executive producer IAN EDWARDS BBC North West
Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton present Britain's most popular financial and business programme Allo, 'Allo
Europe's decision to introduce a new generation of cellular telephones should be a major opportunity for European electronics companies. But can they fend off the competition from Japan and America?
Francine Stock reports
Producer GERALDINE MCCLELLAND Editor JONATHAN CRANE
Six programmes of essential facts on popular continental holiday areas. 1: Corfu
Presented by Paul Heiney with John Kettley and Matthew Collins
The brochures for next summer's holidays are now out. The hard selling is beginning. How can you be sure of picking the right resort? The Travel Show Guide gives you the facts. What the beaches are like; which resorts are noisy; how many British go there; is there so much development that it's like a building site. Plus general information on the area - what time it gets dark; when it normally rains; what the local drink is, and how much it costs; what the airport duty-free is like.
All you need to choose your holiday in the sun.
Film editor CHRISTINE ROYLE Studio director SUE LOCHEAD Producer JULIE BRADSHAW
Executive producer ALAN DOBSON
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A recording of this morning's parade and service in Whitehall when HM The
Queen laid her wreath at the Cenotaph.
The evening session of the final from Preston
Introduced by DAVID ICKE
Introduced by Michael Berkeley
The second programme of BBC2's festival
'I dedicated Lady Macbeth to my bride, my future wife, so naturally the opera is about love too, but not only love.
It's also about how love could have been if the world weren't full of vile things.'
Shostakovich
A recording of the exciting, highly acclaimed production by English National Opera of Shostakovich's original version, which brought him into official disfavour in the Stalinist Russia of the 1930s. The opera is performed in the English translation by David Pountney.
Including at 10.50-11.05* Interval
From Lady Macbeth to Katerina and Back Again
Under personal pressure from Stalin himself, Lady Macbeth was suppressed and then rewritten 20 years later under the title Katerina Ismailova.
In the interval Michael Berkeley talks to David Pountney, Mark Elder and Edward Downes about the chequered history of the work.
(A simultaneous broadcast with Radio 3. Viewers with stereo Radio 3 may wish to turn off TV sound and position their speakers on either side of the screen, but a few feet away.
Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative)
The CIS Insurance
United Kingdom Indoor
Singles Bowls Championship The Final
The final five sets of this tournament are played this evening. The victor will be presented with the UK trophy, and £8,000.