Animated fun.
(Repeat)
(Shown yesterday at 10.45pm)
(Subtitled)
David Frost interviews the newsmakers. Including at 8.30 News; plus weather.
The third of four visits to Lichfield Cathedral, celebrating the season of Advent. Music from the Cathedral choristers includes Hark! A Herald Voice is Calling, O for Thousand Tongues to Sing and Hark the Glad Sound.
The huge variety of ways in which birds construct their nests.
(Shown last Wednesday)
The Problems of Parenthood is on Wednesday at 8pm
(Subtitled)
Heartbreak Hotel. Should Fletcher be worried about his daughter's reputation? Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
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Rural and agricultural issues, presented by John Craven. Including weather for the week ahead at 11.55am.
(Subtitled)
John Humphrys interviews the politicians in the news. Including at 12.00 News.
Website: [web address removed]
Omnibus edition.
(Subtitled)
The Punch and Judy Affair. The staff stage a life-sized Punch and Judy show. Written by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft
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Live coverage of the top pop bands and music acts of 1998 gatheringto collect their Smash Hits awards and performing their hit songs at the Docklands London Arena. Featuring Aqua, Boyzone.
Catatonia. Five. B*Witched, All Saints, Billie, Cleopatra. Steps, 911. Another Level and the Corrs. Introduced by Stephen Gately and Melanie Sykes.
Director/Producer Julia Knowles .......
Fifth of a six-part adaptation of Captain
Marryat's novel. Edward is placed under arrest by Corbould, but help is at hand.
Dramatised by Richard Cooper and Peter Tabern
Nicholas Witchell appeals on behalf of the Queen Elizabeth Foundation for Disabled People, which aims to enable disabled people to make the most of their lives.
(Repeated on Wednesday at 5.50pm on BBC2)
Donations: [address removed] or telephone: [number removed]
A concert of Christmas Gospel favourites, from the Fairfield Hall, Croydon, south London, introduced by British soul star Ruby Turner. American Gospel singer Donnie McClurkin tops the bill, and is joined by London's major Gospel choirs for a joyful celebration of Christmas. Inspirational music includes When a Child is Born, O Come All Ye Faithful, Silent Night and Mary, Did You Know.
Beware of the Elbow. Compo,
Clegg and Foggy happen upon a man who wants to save the world from thin people and their sharp elbows.
Written by Roy Clarke ; Director/Producer
Alan JW Bell Repeat Subtitled.
In the gothic splendour of the Chapel of Lancing College in Sussex, Hugh Scully and his team of experts find an original Beatles album with authentic signatures, a French automaton in a distressed state from a local attic, the remains of a collection of Toby jugs, and a valuable pair of micro mosaic pictures which had been used as teapot stands. Producer Michele Burgess ; Executive producer Christopher Lewis
Five stories which prove how effective young people can be as lifesavers. Gareth from Devon helped a friend who was speared by an arrow, Ross from Inverness saved two elderly women whose car plunged into a river, and Rebecca found her friend unconscious and bleeding after a playground accident in Hull.
Ross from Cornwall saved a boy who caught fire while playing with petrol, and Charlotte was only three when she saved her mother after an epileptic seizure. All these children learned vital skills which made a difference, and the programme asks why first aid training is not a part of the National Curriculum.
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The annual reflection on the year's sporting achievements hosted, live from London's Queen
Elizabeth II Conference Centre, by Desmond Lynam , Steve Rider and Sue Barker. The evening culminates in the presentation of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, and forthe firsttime the programme features a phone vote so viewers can have their say on the night. The Team of the Year and Overseas
Personality of 1998 are also revealed this evening. See today's choices.
Producer Paul Davies ; Editor Dave Gordon Repeated next Saturday on BBC2
♦ Eyes on the prize: page 47
Another chance to see last year's seasonal edition of the comic chat show, as Mrs Merton, alias Caroline Aherne, is joined by Max Bygraves and Edwina Currie.
(Repeat) (Subtitled)
With Peter Sissons. Weather
Michael Fish
Sleeping with the Enemy
Can love survive across the religious divide? Couples where each partnerfollows a different religion discuss the conflicts and compromises within these relationships. Forsome, like the Rev David Barnes and his Hindu wife Rohini, it has been possible to remain committed to their faithsandtheirlove. But for others a difference of religion can threaten their relationship - or even their lives.
Producer Bernard Periatambe ; Series editor Richard Denton
Romantic drama starring Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal
Jenny and Oliver, two students in Boston, fall in love and marry, to the fury of Oliver's father. But fate has a shock in store for them.
(1970, PG) ***
See Films: pages 52-62
Patrick Moore is joined by Dr Allan Chapman to see how to use the stars to tell the time. and looks forward to events due in 1999, including the total eclipse of the sun next August.
(Repeated next Saturday on BBC2)
Followed by Weather
