The Wonder Horse Black Kachina
1: An old Japanese legend tells how Yuki comes down from heaven to help some poor villagers who are being illtreated by robber barons.
Story told by GARY WATSON
Presented by PEGGY MILLER
With BOB LANGLEY, MARIAN FOSTER DAVID SEYMOUR and DONNY MACLEOD Family advice with Claire Rayner and a chat with today's
Weatherman JACK SCOTT at 1.30
Editor TERRY DOBSON
With Maggie Henderson and Fred Harris
One day a big pig got stuck in some sticky, muddy clay. It had rained day after day and made the clay so sticky there seemed to be no way of getting the big pig out of the clay.
Play with these and other words with Bubble, Humbug and the Spoons.
... is the theme of John Braine's contribution to this series of highly personal films.
Best known for his first novel Room at the Top, written when he was an angry young radical, Braine has come to accept England for what it is, and longs passionately to preserve what he once wanted to reform.
(First shown on BBC2)
Simple and attractive dishes prepared for you by Delia Smith 13: Dinner-Party Dishes (2) Pears in Red Wine Apple Cream Flan
Director JOHN LONGLEY Producer BETTY WHITE
Charlie Chester with more memories and anecdotes
More Funny Things on Friday at 3.55
5: The Voice of the People
Much of the current debate about the relationship between television and society is concerned with ' participation ' and ' access.'
Director GILES NEEL
Producer HOWARD SMITH
A brain game
with Helen Mirren
The Thirteen Days of Christmas by JENNY OVERTON
Today: Eight Maids a-milking
School Sport
Are you good at games -or do you think it's all a waste of time? John Craven goes to the National Sports Centre for Wales to find out what a group of children think about sport in schools today.
Director .JILL ROACH
Producer DAVID TURNBULL (from Bristol)
with Robert Dougall ; Weather
bringing you news and views in your region tonight
(including Regional Weather) Presented by MICHAEL BARRATT FRANK BOUGH , BOB WELLINGS and SUE LAWLEY
in Numbered for Death
The identity of clients with numbered accounts at a Swiss bank is being revealed, and the clients are being numbered ...
by Robert Barr
[Starring] Norman Bowler as Det-Chief Insp Hawkins, David Lloyd Meredith as Det-Sgt Evans, Terence Rigby as PC Snow, Grahame Mallard as PC Nesbitt, Martin C. Thurley as PC Knowles, with Walter Gotell as Chief Con Cullen
EVANS: 'If we can't hear what they're saying, we have to prove what they're doing.'
SNOW: 'Like a silent movie. Just mouths moving.'
with Robert Dougall and Richard Whitmore ; Weather
HANDEL'S sacred oratorio with Elizabeth Harwood (soprano)
Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano) Robert Tear (tenor)
Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge London Philharmonic Orchestra leader RODNEY friend
IAN HARE (chamber organ)
JAMES LANCELOT (harpsichord) ARTHUR WILLS (organ)
GORDON WEBB (solo trumpet) conducted by David Willcocks
In this much-acclaimed production Handel's score is illustrated by the beautiful architecture of Ely Cathedral and by paintings by Rubens. Murillo. Rembrandt, Titian, and other old masters.
Specially recorded for television in Ely Cathedral
Producer BRIAN LARGE
Introduced by Ludovic Kennedy together with ROBERT MACNEIL
Deputy editor JOHN GAU
Editor PETER PAGNAMENTA