Floella Benjamin and her guests say Hallo Again, with songs, games and play ideas.

Prayer ... Using the Imagination (2)
Continuing his theme that imagination can arrive at faith in a way that reason cannot, Fr Gerard W. Hughes, sj talks to someone who has applied imagination to the passage: 'She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger.'
Assistant producer STEVE BENSON Producer HELEN ALEXANDER

Cecilia Linehan is a housewife and dentist living in Holywood, Co Down. Much of her spare time is given to assisting the children of Northern Ireland to grow up together in harmony.
Today Noel Battye joins her at home for a simple service of meditation and reflection. Director STEVE BENSON Producer JAMES SKELLY
Series producer HELEN ALEXANDER

The last in the series.
Join Judi Spiers and find out how you can save time, effort and above all, money. Director DAVE THOMAS
Producer CLARE BRIGSTOCKE (e) For free leaflet send sae to
[address removed]

A series of four programmes about how to make your business more successful, especially if English is your second language.
2: What the Customer Wants The secret of business success is knowing what the customer wants. It's also the first law of 'marketing'.
Walter Castro , Ashfaq Aziz and Amrik Singh all want to find more customers. How are they doing it?
Film editor PETER ESSEX
Producer MARY SPRENT (R) (e)

A series of programmes based on excerpts from French television and designed to help develop the skills of understanding spoken and written French.
Narrated by Gilles Dattas
(R) (e)

French for beginners in the ninth of 15 programmes. With Carolle Rousseau and Patrick Simpson-Jones
(R) (e)

Christmas Special
This 50-minute edition features an adaptation, with subtitles and sign language, Of CHARLES DICKENS 'S classic story A Christmas Carol in which the soul of Ebenezer
Scrooge is 'reclaimed' by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
In addition, the Comedians provide some comedy and Cardiff Ladies Deaf Choir and the children from the Royal School for the Deaf, Derby with Wendy Daunt , tell the Christmas story.

'The farmer wants a wife', but how does he get one?
Claire Powell investigates agricultural lonely hearts.
Also Les Cottington looks at the work of the industry's very own charity, the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution.
Producers ANNE BROWN. MIKE DERBY Series producer MARTIN SMALL BBC Pebble Mill

IAN MCCASKILL

with Moira Stuart

Written by Ken Pettus
starring

A delicate peace between the High Chaparral and the Apaches is threatened when Chatto, the son of the chief, steals Blue's magnificent stallion, which he claims to have captured himself. (R)

by Michael Robartes and Gilly Fraser

"Oh the tittle-tattle! The gossip! The sniggering!"

(Ceefax subtitles)
Book, EastEnders: The Inside Story by Julia Smith and Tony Holland, £8.95 from booksellers

Live from Television Theatre, Pattie Coldwell and Eamonn Holmes look ahead to the most exciting week of the year on BBC Television. If you want to talk to the stars of Christmas 87, ring them on [number removed]
BBC North West

from The Grand Hall, Olvmpia
Keith Chegwin introduces a selection of guests and items from this pre-Christmas show, now in its 16th year.

The First Ten Years
Introduced by Hugh Scully For the past ten years, at 90 towns and cities around the country, the Roadshow has attracted some quarter of a million people to bring their most treasured possessions for expert opinion.
Hugh Scully introduces outstanding and favourite moments from the first ten years, chosen by the experts themselves - the fake
Constables, the hi-fi speakers in the Georgian peat buckets, the elderly tricycle walled up in the loft space and, of course, Arthur Negus caressing the furniture. Videotape editor FRANK RICHES Executive producer CHRISTOPHER LEWIS Producer TONY HUNT BBC Bristol
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by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
THACKERAY. The last Of 16 episodes dramatised by ALEXANDER BARON starring Old Acquaintance
Becky's wits need to be at their sharpest as she prepares for her final gamble. The stakes are everything she has always wanted - wealth, position and power....
Music composed and conducted by NIGEL HESS
Make-up designer LESLEY PERRY Script editor PHILLIPPA GILES Designers
GAVIN DAVIES . SALLY ENGELBACH Producer TERRANCE DICKS
Director MICHAEL OWEN MORRIS
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Cliff Michelmore and Maggie Philbin report on the latest charity news.
Duncan Goodhew appeals on behalf of the British
Paraplegic Sports Society which encourages paralysed people in wheelchairs to take an active part in sport and helps them build the self confidence with which to cope with the problems posed by integration into everyday life. The BPSS needs funds now to enable it to send a team of 125 paralysed wheelchair athletes to compete in the Paralympics in Seoul, Korea next year. Donations to:
[address removed]

with Moira Stuart
Weather BERNARD DAVEY

from Canada
On the fourth Sunday of Advent, the Songs of Praise advent candle is lit in Canada. Pauline Webb goes to an Indian village in the interior of British Columbia to see how the light of Christ shines within traditional Indian spirituality. In
Vancouver, Pauline visits the caring agencies at work among the poor and joins local children as they prepare for Christmas. Choirs and congregations come together in St Andrew 's Wesley Church to sing their Advent hymns. 0 come. 0 come. Emmanuel:
Tomorrow Christ is coming; Huron Indian carol (Jesous Ahatonhia); Basque carol: The Angel Gabriel: Walls that divide: A stable lamp is lighted; Sing lullaby; Magnificat
(Valient); Angels from the realms of glory
Conductor LEN LYTHGOE Organist DARRYL NIXON
Assistant producer HUGH FAUPEL Producer DAVID KREMER Editor STEPHEN WHITTLE
Made in co-operation with CBC
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by ROY CLARKE starring Michael Aldridge Bill Owen , Peter Sallis and Thora Hird with Jane Freeman
Joe Gladwin , Kathy Staff in Merry Christmas Father Christmas
The sight of Santa with an advertising board on a bike is too much for Seymour's sense of traditional values.
He resolves to put some of the magic back into Christmas by putting Santa back where he belongs - on a rooftop near a chimney. Clegg is an obvious, if unwilling, helper, but who does he know who has the charisma and the wellies to play Father Christmas?
Stunt arranger STUART FELL Music RONNIE HAZLEHURST Designer STEPHEN PACZAI Produced and directed by ALAN J.W. BELL (R)
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starring
Roy Scheider
Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss with Lorraine Gary , Murray Hamilton
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your television set -
Steven Spielberg 's terrifying thriller. Amity is a small seaside town waiting for its summer tourists when death strikes in the form of a gigantic great white shark. Only
Brody, the town's police chief seems concerned - can he stop the menace before it feeds again?
Screenplay by PETER BENCHLEY and CARL GOTTLIEB
Based on the novel by PETER BENCHLEY
Produced by RICHARD D. ZANUCK and DAVID BROWN
Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG
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with Moira Stuart Weather

Paradise in Peril
When he visited Fiji last year, Pope John Paul called it 'a symbol of hope in the world'. He found 'people of diverse cultures ... living in harmony and peace'.
Now this peace has been destroyed by two military coups; religions and races are divided.
Brigadier Rabuka, the man behind the coups, is a Methodist lay preacher. Why has this devout
Christian wanted to deny over half the population their political rights and restrict their religious freedom? And what prospects are there for harmony in the future? Martin Young talks to
Brigadier Rabuka and other Fijian political and religious leaders, and analyses the significance of what's been happening.
Film editor DAVID PYGRAM Assistant producer CATHARINE SEDDON
Producer CLAIRE WALMSLEY
Everyman editor JANE DRABBLE

from the Grand Hall, Olympia featuring The Crosse and Blackwell Grand Prix
As is traditional on the final night of the show, there is a great contrast of moods. To start, the riders let their hair down in the Fancy Dress Stakes; then concentrate their minds on the massive course for the Grand Prix with E16,000 prize money, at stake.
Introduced by DAVID VINE Commentators
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD
STEPHEN HADLEY
Producers JOHNNIE WATHERSTON WENDY SHEPPARD

revealed by Lady Wedgwood The last in a series of explorations into the hidden meaning of three paintings. The Madonna and Chancellor Rolin by Jan Van Eyck
The Virgin Mary was the most popular image of medieval painting, representing the sunny side of religion that was often doom-laden in its true sense. Film editor MARTIN CRUMP Producer DICK FOSTER (R) Book (same title), £14.95