9.10 A Good Job with Prospects Local Reporter
9.38 Going to Work
Local Builder

A series for 4- and 5-year-olds, and adults watching with them.
David Ashton and his friends find out how Mrs Harbour's garden grows.
The Second You and Me Book, £2.50 from booksellers

10.15 Music Time
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Music Time (record bec 362, cassette zcm 362) from retailers
10.38 British Social History The Railways
11.0 Merry-go-Round
A Garage and a Blacksmith
11.23 Talkabout
Not this Bear!
11.42 General Studies
The Real Spy World
12.10 pm Play it Safe!
9: Think Bike
For free Play It Safe! booklet send your name and address on a postcard to Play It Safe'. Health Education Council[address removed]

with Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart Weather
ANNE PURVIS

(London and SE only: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)

Donny MacLeod, Marian Foster, Marjorie Lofthouse and Bob Langley are this week's presenting team on the topical and entertaining lunchtime magazine programme. Frank Delaney visits Pebble Mill today for his weekly chat about books and authors.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill
A BBC Artel Book, Michael Smith's Complete Recipe Collection from Pebble Mill at One, 12.95 from booksellers

A See-Saw programme.
All the Music from Trumpton and Chigley (record REC 234, cassette MRMC 044) from retailers.

2.1 Words and Pictures
For young children in the early stages of reading.
The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll
Living in a freezer is a fairly chilling experience for a tiny doll, until a little girl comes to the rescue.
Presenter Vicky Ireland
Film director Eric Mival
Producer Moyra Gambleton

2.18 The History Trail
How did people live in the 17th century? And how did events in Britain affect their lives?
5: A Restoration Christmas
A nobleman tries to restore his fortunes - and some old festivities. Presenter Lorain Bertorelli
Producer DAVID SCOTT COWAN

2.40 The Music Arcade: 9: Pantomime Preparation
A performance of some of the tunes children have sent in for 'The clown's song'. A school is shown making preparations for its Christmas show.
Presenters Tim Whitnall, Lucie Skeaping
Children from Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School and Henry Fawcett Junior School
Director JUDITH MILES
Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT

Story: Sophie and Jack Written by JUDY TAYLOR
Illustrated by SUSAN gantner Presenters
Lucie Skeaping , Stuart McGugan

Lend Lease Meece

with Ronald Pickup
The Revenge of Samuel Stokes by PENELOPE LIVELY
The television set fizzed and crackled and Samuel Stokes appeared : ' My patience is about to be exhausted. I tell you if you do not act swiftly I shall be obliged to take matters into my own hands. And that will bode ill for you all ...'

at the Laughter Factory for a magnificent maelstrom of music and merriment with Christopher Lillicrap, Tony Maiden and Su Pollard
This week's totally unknown and unfamous guest is Zelah Clarke, and the Scratch Band answers to the baton of Peter Moss.
Designer Dugald Finlay Director Sue Lochead Producer CYRIL GATES
Executive producer DAVID BROWN

with Simon Groom
Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan Heart of Oak!
The Boscobel Oak sheltered Charles 11 when he was fleeing from Roundheads in 1651. Today David Bellamy plants a Boscobel seedling at the Natural History Museum to celebrate National Tree Week.
Assistant editor IAN oliver Editor BIDDY BAXTER
Blue Peter 19th Book, £ 2.30 from booksellers

with Richard Baker Weatherman

Presented by Laurie Mayer and Fran Morrison
with reporters Susannah Greenberg and Maggie Nelson
Michael Wale is at the South East sports desk

At 6.25 the Nationwide team of Sue Lawley, Frank Bough, Richard Kershaw and Hugh Scully bring you the issues, the stories and the people that matter from BBC studios in the capital and across the country.
Including Watchdog

by MAUREEN GLADYS CHADWICK
Nargis Khan's engagement party. The squash tournament ... both Janet and Dave are determined to win.
Script editor TONY Holland Designer sally kngelbach Producer julia smith
Directed by STEPHEN butcher

Presented by Fred Emery and Richard Lindley
The issues, the people and the stories that matter, reported by television's top journalists:
MICHAEL COCKERELL , DAVID LOMAX TOM MANGOLD , JEREMY PAXMAN PETER TAYLOR , PHILIP TIBENHAM
Deputy editor TOM BOWER
Editor GEORGE CAREY

with John Humphrys Weatherman

starring Michael Caine with Mickey Rooney , Lionel Stander
Lizabeth Scott , Nadia Cassini
Former funeral director Mickey King is now a successful pulp fiction writer working under a dozen pseudonyms and enjoying life in the sun of his Mediterranean home. But when he is approached by gangsterish executive Ben Dinuccio to be the ghost writer for a mysterious celebrity, he soon finds himself trapped in a sinister intrigue which could well be one of his own plots ...
Screenplay by MIKE HODGES
Produced by MICHAEL KLINGER
Directed by MIKE HODGES. Films: page 13 Film news and reviews on Ceefax

with Iain Johnstone

Including regular reviews of current releases and up-to-the-minute news of the latest films in production and the personalities involved.

Creep Show: director George (Night of the Living Dead) Romero has created a live action horror comic with a new story on every page.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid: Steve Martin stars as the private eye in this comedy thriller which splices together footage from classic 40s films with new black and white scenes. Steve Martin and director Carl Reiner are in the studio to talk about their film.