with Frank Bough and Nick Ross
News with Debbie Rix (Fern Britton on Friday) 6.30, 7.0,
7.30, 8.0, 8.30 with headlines every quarter hour and at 8.59 Weather with Francis Wilson :
6.31, 6.57, 7.27, 7.57, 8.27
Sport with Bob Wilson and David Icke : 6.40 and 7.40 Regional News, traffic and weather: 6.45, 7.15, 7.45, 8.15 TV Choice with David Wheal ; the pick of the day's BBC programmes at 6.55 The Morning Papers, reviewed by a personality making the headlines: 7.18 and 8.18
Plus today: Lynn Faulds
Wood opens her consumer file
A sequence of yoga movements that builds up day-by-day into a routine that will stretch and exercise the entire body.
Day 13: Slow Motion Firming Director PAULA GILDER
Producer PETER RAMSDEN
with Richard Whitmore and Frances Coverdale Weather JIM BACON
12.57 Regional News
(London and SE: Financial
Report, and News Headlines with subtitles)
Live and lively entertainment, plus Hilary James with ideas for Sew Easy Gifts for Christmas.
It's the last week for entries for our Schools Carols
Competition. Send them to:
Christmas Carols, PO Box 86, BBC Pebble Mill, Birmingham.
Editor PETER HERCOMBE BBC Pebble Mill
A See-Saw programme
Brazil
Narrator Derek Cooper Presented for the BBC by PETER RIDING, CATHERINE ROBINS
A SCREENSCOPE production
Wax Sculpture
Sculptor Jean Fraser was for several years head of the studio at Madame Tussauds where she sculpted portraits of many famous people. This film follows her through the creation of a lifelike wax sculpture. Series producer JOHN READ Producer NIGEL WILLIAMS
from Peebles
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You can come down - jump down
Look down -slide down
But be careful you don't fall down
Story: No Milk for Breakfast by Martin Fisher.
The Frankfurter Fix
Prince Handsome receives all the traditional christening gifts from the local fairies, along with the traditional unwanted spell from the uninvited guest.
This proves to be annoying and time-wasting, and extremely difficult to remove.
(Repeat)
with Simon Groom, Janet Ellis, Michael Sundin
Cable Cliffhanger!
Simon's mid-air report, dangling 170 metres above the Derbyshire countryside! Volunteer Groom tries out the emergency drill on board Britain's first Alpine-style cable car system. If you have a head for the Heights of Abraham, your Blue Peter badge guarantees you a free ride-but check the opening times before you go into orbit!
Assistant editor LEWIS BRONZE Editor BIDDY BAXTER
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starring
Malpractice
Maggie's insistence on a 'pay-as-you-go' policy at the clinic triggers an unexpected confrontation with a thrifty client, and a major lawsuit. Written by RICH REINHART Directed by BOB CLAVER
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with Sue Lawley and Jeremy Paxman
Sally Magnusson , Guy Michelmore and Bob Wellings bring you tonight's headlines and tomorrow's talking points. The London Plus reporters are with the people making the news. Plus sport from
MICHAEL WALE and the brightest stars and stories from the world of entertainment. Editor PHILIP HARDING
Join Russell in the Greenwood Theatre with the people in the news from all walks of life. His guests include
American singer Tony Bennett Director IAN HAMILTON
Producer SALLYANN JACOBSON Executive producer TOM GUTTERIDGE
It sings, it jokes, it's curly-haired, it's bubbly, it's Max Boyce
With RICHARD DAVIES
JANE FREEMAN
DOROTHEA PHILLIPS
SUE RODERICK , GEOFF MORGAN Special guest Marti Webb Sound PETER J. HUNT Lighting MIKE BAKER
Designer GERALD MURPHY Produced and directed by GARETH ROWLANDS
• FEATURE: page 101
Wasting Welfare
The people who depend on it, the people who operate it and the people who pay for it agree - our Social Security system is a mess.
While one in eight survives on Supplementary Benefit, more than one third of the Social Security budget is spent on people who are not even poor.
Eager to save money, the Government wants to concentrate the cash on those who need it most. But will that mean, instead of a Welfare State with benefits for all, just a poor service for the poor?
Richard Lindley reports Producer nick HAYES
Editor PETER IBBOTSON t FEATURE: page 3
with John Humphrys Weatherman
Starring George Segal, Susan Saint James, Jack Warden
"I'm Jewish, my son is black and my lawyer smokes pot! Don't tell me I'm not in trouble!"
George Segal plays Walter Whitney, who at the age of 39 has everything going for him - a beautiful house, a Rolls Royce, a top executive job and membership at an exclusive golf club. Until the day that Roger Porter, a black teenager, walks into his office with an amazing claim....
Screenplay by STANLEY SHAPIRO Produced by CARTER DEHAVEN and STANLEY SHAPIRO
Directed by MICHAEL SCHULTZ
(First showing on British television) FILMS: page 31
with Barry Norman
Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray are the university scientists who set up as the Ghostbusters in this comedy of the paranormal.
David Puttnam's new production, The Killing Fields, tells the true story of an American journalist, Sam Waterston, and his Cambodian interpreter, caught up in the horror of the fall of Phnom Penh.
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in Give My Regards to Broad Street, a musical search for lost recording tapes.
Happy Loving Couples: 2
Suzie Hayman and Dr Fay Hutchinson answer questions on pregnancy, contraception and VD. with John Cooper Clarke and Derek Griffiths Director PATRICK TITLEY
Producer TONY MATTHEWS