9.0 A Good Job with Prospects Anyone Can Apply
9.30 Biology
Artificial Selection
9.52 A Good Read: 10
10.15 Music Time
A Christmas Journey: 10
10.38 Maths Topics
Statistics 5: Probability II. Equally likely' probabilities, the 0-1 scale, manipulating probabilities. Produced by PETER BRATT
Series editor DAVID ROSEVEARE
11.0-11.20 Merry-go-Round Find That Man
11.40 General Studies
Reflections on ' The Long Search 5: Full Circle

Weather JIM BACON

Donny MacLeod , Marian Foster Bob Langley and Bob Hall including Plan Your Land with expert Les Bailey.
Editor jim DUMIGHAN BBC Birmingham

2.1 Words and Pictures
Christmas Tree Fairy
2.18 Out of the Past
Looking for Normans
2.40 Going to Work
Garage Work

After conquering England, the Normans maintained control by building castles. Carol Adams visits Waltham Abbey and Castle Hedingham. Show more

from Rugeley

Gladiator Gator

with Peter Barkworth Abel's Island by WILLIAM STEIG
A young mouse named Abel was enjoying a picnic in the woods with his lovely wife, when a most dreadful storm broke up the party. And before Abel could protest he was carried off by the flood and dumped on an uninhabited island. And there he stayed ... Today: Happy Anniversary

A new version of an old fairy tale from Czechoslovakia, in three parts.
1: Although the visit of the king and queen to Cinderella's home is only a brief one, her stepmother manages to get herself and her daughter Dora invited to the royal ball.
Story told by GABRIEL WOOLF
Presented by PEGGY MILLER

with Simon Groom, Christopher Wenner, Tina Heath
Flying Cats Jack and Jill take to the skies and jet their way to Dunfermline for a guest appearance at the Edinburgh and East Scotland Cat Show. Blue Peter cameras follow their flight from Gatwick to Edinburgh.
Book 16, £1.50, from bookshops

by OLIVER POSTGATE The Seaside
Pictures by PETER FIRMIN
Story told by OLWEN GRIFFITHS
ANTHONY JACKSON and OLIVER POSIGATI Music by VERNON ELLIOTT

with Richard Baker ; Weatherman

Presented live from London and the BBC studios around Britain. Frank Bough, Sue
Lawley Hugh Scully , John Stapleton and Bob Wellings are the team that bring you Britain's most watched current affairs programme. Each weekday evening they present analysis of topical events, plus the features and film that make up the scene Nationwide. Including Home Office with Glyn Worsnip learning how to do it himself and presenting more thoughts and suggestions from your letters and The Villages of England - the second in a series in which Hugh Scully makes a 700-mile journey to look at four very different communities - each one typical of an English way of life. Tonight: Aldborough in rural East Anglia.
Producers ANDREW CLAYTON , UNO FERRARI IAN SQUIRES , RICHARD TAIT Deputy editor DAVID LLOYD Editor HUGH WILLIAMS

starring James Garner in Only Rock 'n' Roll will Never Die Part 2: a rock star's troubles, including a$15-million lawsuit by his live-in girlfriend and a missing producer, take further strange turns as Rockford pursues his investigations.
Written by DAVID CHASE
Directed by WILLIAM WIARD

Presented by Fred Emery
The issues, the people and the stories that matter, reported by television's top journalists:
JAMES BELLINI , MICHAEL COCKERELL RICHARD LINDLEY , TOM MANGOLD
JEREMY PAXMAN , PHILIP TIBENHAM DAVID TAYLOR
Deputy editor ELWYN PARRY JONES Editor ROGER BOLTON

with Peter Woods and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world Weatherman

starring
Charles Bronson Al Lettieri
Vince Majestyk , a Colorado land-owner, is unfairly arrested and finds himself in the same jail as Frank Renda , a vicious syndicate killer. When Renda's gang ambush the prison bus, Vince finds himself handcuffed to the ' 'bit' man and on the run. He is determined to harvest his melon crop - whatever the consequences.
Written by ELMORE LEONARD
Produced bvWALTER MIRISCH
Directed by RICHARD FLEISCHER
(First showing en British television) Films: page 25

Barry Norman presents a weekly round-up of news. reviews and interviews from the movie world. Yesterday's Hero
The first major British film with a football background stars Ian McShane and Adam Faith in a story about a has-been football hero who fights his way back to the top. Martin
Vampire or psychopath? American director George A. Romero poses the question- in his modern-day monster movie. Wind River
On location in Wyoming Charlton Heston talks about playing a fur trapper, and his 24-year-old son Fraser explains his role as the screenwriter.
Executive producer BARRY BROWN Studio director JANE LUSH Producer MARGARET SHARP

The BBCtv Roadshow meets young people in Dundee for music, dance and talk.
With LINDA LEWIS and JON EDEN
Featuring the disco-goers at Kirk-ton Community Centre in Dundee. Music from
ROKOTTO plus film about the ideas and interests of young people in Dundee.
Executive producer TONY MATTHEWS Directed by PETER LEE-WRIGHT
Free Roadshow Guide on jobs. rights and the law available from libraries, careers offices and job centres