starts your day with half-an-hour of news, sport, weather and travel available to all viewers, whether or not they have teletext sets.

Frank Bough and Fern Britton are the Breakfast Time hosts to people and personalities making the headlines.
Daily timetable:
News with Debbie Rix (Fern Britton, Tues, Wed) 6.30, 7.0, 7.30, 8.0,
8.30 with headlines on every quarter hour
Weather Francis Wilson : 6.31, 6.67,
7.27, 7.67, 8.27
Sport with David Icke 6.40 and 8.40
Regional News, weather and traffic
6.45, 7.16, 7.45, 8.16 TV Choice 6.66
Review of the Papers: 7.18 and 8.18
Your Stars with Russell Grant 8.36 Plus today:
Getting Britain Fit: Diana Moran between 8.30 and 9.0
Slim and Shine: Audrey Eyton between 8.30 and 9.0
Record or cassette Russell Grant 's Zodiac Jukeboi (REH/ZCR 491) from retailers

On Location
Forty years ago the Dambusters flew from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire. Now it's the home of the Red Arrows aerobatic display team. Veteran Lancaster pilot Squadron Leader Jack Currie , DFC, goes On Location to see how it is, and how it was, at RAF Scampton.
Director ROGER KEECH Producer KEN COOPER
(First thown on BBC North)

from Romsey Abbey
Record and cassette, Your Songs of Praise Choice (REC/ZCM 469) from retailers

Presenter Chloe Ashcroft Guest lain Lauchlan
Story: The Bag of Wind
Written and illustrated by GERALD rose Director MARTIN FISHER

with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale Weather IAN MCCASKILL
12.57 Regional News
(London and SE: Financial Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)

The sound of music fills the air; guests include opera star Jennifer Jones and pop idol Nick Heyward
Editor PETER HERCOMBE. BBC Pebble Mill

A See-Saw programme
Hugo has to lose weight. Dr Glossop advises him to go jogging with him. But jogging isn't the right sort of exercise for Hugo. What is? Clara comes up with the answer. With the voices of George Layton and John Telfer
(Repeat)

Presenting news, views and entertainment for the deaf or hard of hearing, with sign language and subtitles.
Magazine for the deaf on Ceefax page 291

from the Grand Hall, Olympia
With many of the international riders' thoughts on the big Grand Prix prize tonight, this is a chance to look at some of the other events which help to make this show a sell-out from the very first performance.

3.53 Regional News (exc London)

What would you do -I’ll ask you now, What would you think - if you saw a star, Bigger and brighter than any before, The biggest super-dooper star,
Crossing the sky like a rocket car? Presenters
Elizabeth Millbank , Brian Jameson Story: The Cobweb Christmas Tree by SHIRLEY CLIMO Illustrated by JOE LASKER Director Roy MILANI

Mighty Mouse fights Prince Charming.
(Repeat)

with Jan Francis
Peter Pan by J. M. BARRIE
'All children, except one, grow up. And that one is Peter Pan , who comes to the Darling nursery and teaches Wendy, John and Michael how to fly. So the fantastic adventure begins.... Today: Come Away, Come Away! 0 BACK PAGE: 118

First of three programmes The Magic Mirror by KAY MCMANUS from a story by ANTHONY ARMSTRONG The King of Bardalia, in his usual vague fashion, acquires a variety of useless articles from a passing (rather suspicious) pedlar. One of these items proves to be something of a shock to the Princess Marda on the morning of her 18th birthday....
Costume IRENE WHILTON Lighting PETER SMEE
Designer DAVID MYERSCOUGH-JONES Producer ANGELA BEECHING Director CHRISTINE SECOMER

with Paul McDowell

with Simon Groom Peter Duncan and Janet Ellis
Lift-off for Simon: Today's the great day for 14-year-old Simon Holtom, the winner of Blue Peter's Intelpost Greetings Card Competition. His glorious view of balloons over the London skyline has been turned into a greetings card and will be seen in public for the first time.
A BBC videobook, "Blue Peter Makes..." (BBCV 9007); "Blue Peter" Book 20, £2.50, from retailers

including The News and tonight's Weather
Start Christmas week with Nick Ross, Sally Magnusson and the Sixty Minutes team. News, views and features from Britain and around the world.
News read by Moira Stuart
Look East with Judi Lines
Look North (Newcastle) with Mike Neville
Look North (Leeds) with Ken Cooper, Harry Gration, Mike Smartt, Judith Stamper, John Thirlwell
Look North West with Stuart Hall
Midlands Today with Alan Towers and Kay Alexander
Points West with Graham Purches, Gerald Haycock, Sue Carpenter, Gillian Miles and Chris Vacher
South Today with Bruce Parker and Jenni Murray
Spotlight with Chris Denham
Countdown through Sixty Minutes
5.40 The News
5.53* Regional Magazines
6.15* Weather
6.38* Closing headlines

Tom and Jerry play cat and mouse.
An MGM cartoon

by JOHN KANE starring Terry Scott and June Whitfield
Designer TOM YARDLEY-JONES Producer PETER WHITMORE (Repeat)
* Subtitles on Ceefax page 170

for the Homelink Trophy
Introduced by Donny MacLeod
From Holland's Openiucht Museum near Arnhem, Geoff Capes defends his title in a spectacular contest of strength, endurance and character.
The competitors:
From Sweden: Leif Wigholm , 21 stone; powerlifter and Scandinavian 'Viking 83' title holder.
From Switzerland: Heinz Stettler, 17 stone; brakeman of the 1982 World Champion four-man bobsleigh team.
From Great Britain: Geoff Capes, 23 stone; Highland Games athlete, the current title holder and Britain's Strongest Man 1983.
From Holland: Cees de Vreugd, 20 1/2 stone; powerlifter and the current Netherlands Champion title holder.
Simon Wulfse, 17 stone; last year's runner-up and Holland's Strongest Man 1982.
From Scotland: Jack Hynd, 19 stone: Scottish Champion Olympic lifter and at 41, the oldest man in the contest.
From Austria: Franz Bierbaum, 18 stone; rock lifter and current holder of the Vienna Grand Prix.
From Iceland: Jon Pall Sigmarsson, 18 stone; A powerlifter, Viking 82 Champion and at 23, the youngest man in the contest.
Produced in association with TRANS WORLD INTERNATIONAL
Videotape editor PETER BIRD
Production team SANDRA CLARK. BOB WILD
Television presentation Simon BETTS

A Pay Cut for the Poor
The Government believes that holding down wages will mean more new jobs. People, they say, can price themselves back into work. But while the real wages of poorly paid workers are being cut, the better off are earning more.
Richard Lindley reports on how it's the lowest paid-many of them women and young people-who are paying the price of the Government's policy.
Producer NICK HAYES
Deputy editor PHILIP HARDING Editor PETER IBBOTSON

with John Humphrys ; Weatherman

with Angle Dickinson
Double-crossed and shot by his partner while stealing a fortune in loot from a rival gang, Walker survives determined to seek vengeance. Two years later, he is approached by a mysterious man named Yost who oners to help him have his revenge and regain his money from The Organisation.
This tough, compelling thriller was filmed largely on location on the deserted island prison fortress of Alcatraz.
Screenplay by ALEXANDER JACOBS , DAVID NEWHOUSE and RAFE NEWHOUSE
Based on the novel The Hunter by Richard STARK Produced by JUDO BERNARD and ROBERT CHARTOFF Directed by John BOORMAN Christmas Films: page 16

featuring from the Grand Hall, Olympia The Radio Rentals Grand Prix and The Norwich Union Fancy Dress Relay
Introduced by DAVID VINE Commentators
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD and STEPHEN HADLEY
Producen JOHNNIE WATHERSTON , ALASTAIR SCOTT