Richard Whitmore and Moira Stuart

Weather Michael Fish

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

With Donny MacLeod , Marian Foster , Marjorie Lofthouse , Bob Langley.
Frank Delaney visits Pebble Mill today for his weekly chat about books and authors.
Editor PETER HERCOMSE. BBC Pebble Mill

A See-Saw programme.

from the Grand Hall, Olympia featuring
The Norwich Union Take Your Own Line Stakes
The final day of this show, which is now in its 11th year. This afternoon's class requires the competitors to jump all the fences in the arena, but in any order they choose. Introduced by DAVID VINE

Story: The Friendly Fir Tree (traditional)
Illustrated by TOMIE DE PAOLO Presenters
Elizabeth Millbank, Johnny Ball

Mighty Mouse meets a 20-foot stranger.

with Jeremy Irons
Paul Gallico Stories Ludmila: Part 1
The year is 1823. It is harvest time in Steg, a week before the great festival where something unexpected happens ...

The last of three plays
The Princess and the Inventor by ROY RUSSELL
When Queen Beatrice holds a competition to find a new Royal Inventor, she does not expect her daughter to fall in love with one of the contestants. The question is, will Tobias' talking helmets beat Mungo's wooden horse and Lord Hawkspur's fountain quill?
Visual effects PETER COCAN
Costume designer RUPERT JARVIS Designer GWEN EVANS
Producer ANGELA BEECHING
Director ROGER singleton-turner

with Simon Groom, Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan
Goldie's puppy. Prince, will be spending his first Christmas as a fully qualified guide dog for the blind. Peter meets Prince and his new owner to see how Prince is settling down to his life as a pair of eyes for the blind.

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, 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
Producers
MICHAEL IIOGAN , PAUL WOOLWICH Deputy editors
PHILIP HARDING , IAN SQUIRES Editor ROGER BOLTON

by GLENN CHANDLER
Exam results for Tracey and Alison. Linda and Dave split up. The culprit who stole the pills is discovered ...
Script editor TONY HOLLAND Designers
STANLEY MORRIS , BOB FARR Producer JULIA SMITH
Director ghaeme harper

Called to Account -
How Roberto Calvi Died
Roberto Calvi , 62-year-old head of Italy's largest private bank, was found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge, London, in June this year. An inquest jury ruled that he committed suicide. Attempting to discover what could have driven him to kill himself, Jeremy Paxman began to unravel a series of deals which left Calvi's Banco Ambrosiano with debts of over one billion dollars. But when Panorama began to reconstruct the last days of Calvi, they uncovered new evidence which suggests that others were involved in his death.
Producer PETER BATE Editor GEORGE CAREY

with John Humphrys and the BBC's reporters and correspondents around the world. Weatherman

from the Grand Hall, Olympia featuring
The Radio Rentals Grand Prix
The contrast in entertainment at this show is typified in tonight's two classes. In the first, the riders are unrecognisable in fancy dress, while in the second they are competing for the top prize of the week of £4,000.
Introduced by DAVID VINE Commentators
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD and STEPHEN HADLEY
Producer JOHNNIE WATHERSON

with Iain Johnstone
A roundup of Christmas films, including Trail of the Pink Panther: Peter Sellers as the infamous Inspector Clouseau in a new adventure which combines previously unseen material of him with specially shot sequences.
Night Shift: Henry Winkler plays a timid night attendant at the New York City Morgue who finds himself running a call-girl ring.
And John Cleese and Michael Palin talk about the productive year they've had in the film studios making Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Privates on Parade, The Missionary and Yellowbeard.
Producer JANE LUSH
Director BRUCE THOMPSON
(A short Sellers season begins on Thursday at 3.55 pm on BBC2)