Kate Copstick and Fred Harris say Hello Again
Musicians JONATHAN COHEN, WILL HILL
Story: Ten Sleepy Sheep by HOLLY KELLER
Director ALISON STEWART
Producer PENNY LLOYD
Editor CYNTHIA FELGATE

Rediscovering Religious Belief
Longing for the Kingdom Since its inception, the Church has prayed 'Thy kingdom come'.
Charles Elliott considers the practical implications of that prayer, both for the Church and the individual believer Director LEUA GUINERY GREEN Producer DAVID CRAIG

For this second Sunday in Advent the theme is Longing for God's Kingdom. The preacher is the Methodist minister, Whitfield Foy , and the programme is introduced by Ann Easter from a viewer's home in Margate. Director ANN RICHARDSON Producer ELIZABETH GORT

Faizaan Peerzada , Pakistan's youngest award-winning painter, attracted a great deal of critical acclaim when he recently held exhibitions in England and America. In the programme he explains to
Anita Bhalla about the way he manages to blend Eastern and Western art.
Music comes from
Ustad Bismillah Khan who plays raag 'Bhairvi' on shehnai. Producer BISH MEHAY
Executive producer ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill

A combined television and radio course in ten parts for beginners in Spanish, with on-the-spot documentary film and recording.

with Isabel Soto, Miguel Penaranda, Carlos Riera
(R)

A series of 20 programmes for beginners in German

Taking the waters is part of the German way of life and many people go to health spas for their holidays. In Bad Mergentheim trinken die Gaste 200 bis 300 cm 3 Wasser, zweimal am Tag. Presented by Hanni Vanhaiden
(R) (Shown again next Sat on BBC2)
(Complementary radio programmes on Radio 4 VHF/FM today at 5.30 pm, rebroadcast next Saturday at 4.30 pm)

A series of 26 programmes
See the news as others see it and brush up your French at the same time.
Presented by Chantal Cuer
(Shown on BBC2 last Monday)

If you've ever wanted a computer desk, a hi-fi video centre, bunk beds or a rocking chair these are just a few of the items which Richard Blizzard will be making in this series of seven programmes.
4: The Computer Desk
Many homes today have the festoons of wire that announce the presence of a micro computer. Richard Blizzard has designed a complete carrying box for the smaller types and a desk for the larger desk-top models. In the garden he makes a garden dilly to carry all the tools and bags of compost to the job in hand.
Director PAULA GILDER
Producer PETER RAMSDEN (R)
DIY HANDY HINT
Tooth Care
Nothing is more frustrating than a blunt saw, and they are not as easy to re-sharpen as a chisel. The everlasting sharp saw is not here yet, however, 'Sandvik Hard Point' saws stay sharper much longer. All saws cut more sweetly if you remember to rub the blade with the stub of an old candle.
RICHARD BLIZZARD

A weekly magazine for the deaf and hard-of-hearing with sign language and subtitles. Introduced by Maggie Woolley
Clive Mason and John Lee Producer CHARLES PASCOE

Featuring the news and views, politics and practice of those involved with the land. With Philip Wrixon
Dan Cherrington
Leslie Cottington and Claire Powell Producers
KEN POLLOCK. MARTIN SMALL
Executive producer JOHN KENYON BBC Pebble Mill

for farmers BILL GILES

with David Dimbleby Starting with the News Summary
The weekly look at what matters in politics. Home Secretary
The RtHon Douglas Hurd , mp, the minister responsible for law and order, talks to David Dimbleby in his first major interview since taking over one of Whitehall's most difficult and controversial departments in September. The programme includes a film report from
Michael Cockerell showing the vast range of problems facing all Home Secretaries: prisons, police, criminal justice, immigration, drugs, telephone tapping, experiments on animals, bingo and broadcasting.
Within days of taking office Mr Hurd soon found out for himself, with the riots of Handsworth, Brixton and Tottenham, the truth of one former Home Secretary's remark 'the corridors of the Home Office are paved with dynamite'.
Producers TOM BARNICOAT
PHILIP CAMPBELL. COLIN MARTIN ELLIE UPDALE
Editor PAUL NORMS

Omnibus edition by Hugh Miller and Michael Robartes.
'We're the best family in the world. If we can't cope who can?'
(Ceefax Subtitles)

starring
Charlton Heston Ava Gardner David Niven
June, 1900. As Major Matt Lewis rides into Peking with a detachment of Marines, he is appalled to see a missionary killed by men wearing the red patched robes of the Boxer rebels.
Within a few days isolated riots have escalated into open war against the city's foreign legations. The fate of China and the prestige of the colonial powers is at stake, as well as the lives of the ambassadors and their families as the siege of the legations intensifies....
Screenplay by philip YORDAN and BERNARD GORDON
Produced by SAMUEL BRONSTON Directed by NICHOLAS RAY
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starring
Ronnie Barker
A Test of Character by DICK CLEMENT and IAN LA FRENAIS featuring
Brian Wilde
Fulton Mackay with Richard Beckinsale and Alun Armstrong
Designer TIM GLEESON
Produced by SYDNEY LOTTERBY (R)
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with Jan Leeming Weather News

from Limavady
The district of Limavady in Northern Ireland is no stranger to the headlines. Three years ago a terrorist bomb exploded in the Drop in Well disco, killing 17 people.
One year later, when the local Presbyterian minister, The Rev David Armstrong , crossed the road to exchange Christmas greetings with the local Roman Catholic priest, Fr Kevin Mullan , and his congregation, there was a local outcry. Paul Jones visits the town and the district to discover a side of the community that is rarely reported: people who reflect the reconciling love of neighbour for neighbour, and who come together across barriers of mistrust to sing their Advent Songs of Praise. Come, thou long-expected Jesus
(Stuttgart); Who would true valour see (Monk's Gate); Be not afraid;
Through all the changing scenes of life (Wiltshire); Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton); How great thou art; I'm not ashamed to own my Lord (Jackson); 0 come. 0 come,
Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel) Conductor HAVELOCK NELSON Organist NORMAN SIMPSON Producer JAMES SKELLY
Series producer STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Northern Ireland
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starring John Hurt Jane Alexander Beau Bridges
Glynnis O'Connor After young Lucas Keller is shot dead trying to get from East to West Germany,
Peter Strelzyk becomes determined that he and his family will escape. With the help of his son's physics textbooks Peter devises a bold plan - to cross the border by hot-air balloon. Having persuaded his friend Gunter to join him Peter sets about constructing the craft. This exciting Walt Disney adventure tells the true story of two families who risked their lives in a desperate bid for freedom.
Screenplay by JOHN MCGREEVEY Produced by TOM LEETCH
Directed by DELBERT MANN
(First showing on British television)
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with Jan Leeming Weather News

A series of stories by Noel Coward
This week: Bon Voyage
Screenplay by STANLEY PRICE starring
Judy Parfitt , Nigel Havers with Helen Horton
Michael Aldridge
Ursula Howells and Doreen Mantle
Cruises bring the most unlikely people together. That is one of their chief attractions and this particular cruise, on board the SS Mara bound across the Pacific from San Francisco, proves to be no exception.
Music composed by FRANCIS SHAW Make-up designer ANNE RAYMENT
Costume designer NICHOLAS ROCKER Designer RICHARD MORRIS Script editor ALAN DRURY
Producer ALAN SHALLCROSS Director MIKE VARDY
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Introduced by Angela Rippon and Frank Bough from the stage of the Dominion Theatre, London
A glittering night of stars who present and receive the highest accolades for their work in the theatre, and enjoy special entertainment representative of all aspects of show business.
London's West End Theatres have seen over a hundred productions this year, revivals, revues, new plays, opera, ballet, and musicals, all of which qualify for consideration by the panel of judges.
The awards include Play of the Year, Comedy of the Year, Musical of the Year; Actor and Actress of the Year;
Comedy Performance of the Year; the Most Promising Newcomer of the Year; Outstanding Individual
Performance of the Year in Opera and Ballet.
Choreographer ANTHONY VAN LAAST Musical director ALYN AINSWORTH Lighting STAN SNAPE and BILL MILLAR
Sound BARRIE HAWES Designer DACRE PUNT
Producer BRIAN WHITEHOUSE Executive producer ROBIN NASH
(Presented by The Society of West End Theatres in association with The
English Tourist Board and by special arrangement with the Observer)

Do You Sincerely Want to Live Forever?
'I would think that by the end of the century we would be living to 150-200 years. I think that is a conservative estimate.' (ROY WALFORD , md,
Professor of Pathology,
University of California)
The quest for immortality is mankind's oldest dream. Now some scientists believe they are close to understanding why we grow old, and how to slow, or even stop the ageing process. In America this research has spawned the Life Extension movement, whose members follow special diets and consume large quantities of anti-ageing drugs in the hope of living for a very long time.
Everyman has been to
America to film the leaders of the Life Extension movement and to examine the scientific evidence behind their claims, and the moral implications of the attempt.
Narrator Peter France Series producer DANIEL WOLF Producer MAX whitby (R)