With DAME CHRISTIAN HOWARD Stereo

Presented by John Humphrys and Brian Redhead
6.30, 7.30, 8.30 News Summary
6.45* Business News With PETER DAY
7.00, 8.00 Today's News Read by SIMON VANCE
7.25*, 8.25* Sport
With GARRY RICHARDSON
7.45* Thoughtfor the Day
8.35* Yesterday in Parliament

Join the debate with Kate and her guests on a topic in the news.
Producer NICK UTECHIN Lines open from 00am

What's new in medical science? How well are the doctors looking after us? Is our money being spent to best effect? Geoff Watts reports on the health of medical care. Producer ALISON RICHARDS

The Crystal by NORA WINDRIDGE Read by June Barrie Producer PAMELA HOWE
BBC Bristol

New Every Morning, page 67;
Tell out, my soul (Bp 81); Luke 1, w 26-35; Angelus ad Virginem (arr Barry Rose ); Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC HB 30)

by Mark Power
Stereo
A synopsis of current events in "Citizens" on Ceefax page 144
Cast for the fortnight:

The last of four programmes presented by Andrew Mitchell. Tree People
In many parts of the world man still lives in close association with trees, but the forest is slowly disappearing. BBC Bristol (R)

Presented by John Waite

The last of eight programmes in which Alexander Walker recalls the screen careers of the cinema's brightest stars. Jane Fonda
Life for Jane Fonda may have been a protest movement, but it shouldn't have been a struggle - the family she grew up in was Hollywood royalty.
Nevertheless, off-screen political notoriety created more public interest than her efforts to turn herself from a glamorous film star into an actress with a message, before playing an on-screen reconciliation with father Henry in On Golden Pond. Producer WENDY CLAY

Presented by James Naughtie

Alvin's Advent Calendar Today: Little Donkey Stereo (R)

'It's like a drug. Once you're hooked, you'll do anything just to keep on playing.' Whether it's fruit machines, one-arm bandits or penny arcades, gambling is on the increase among children.
Marya Burgess reports. Five Short Stories by RONALD BLYTHE
4: Take Your Partners
Presenter Jenni Murray

by LEO GOLDMAN Fingerswith Lee Montague Joey and Ed Bishop
Joey was only a cheap crook, but he was dead for a few minutes and he liked it. His brother, Fingers, thought there was money in it, but first he had to try dying himself.
Directed by NED CHAILLET Stereo

with Richard Baker.
Few instruments have suffered a stranger fate than the saxophone. Once adopted by dance and jazz bands, it could never again be taken seriously by the orchestral fraternity. Two of its leading exponents, John Harle and Barbara Thompson , compare notes on its virtues.
Producer JUDITH ROLES. Stereo

The last of six programmes.
The Rt Hon Barbara Castle, mep. 1945 marked a major turning point in Barbara Castle's life. She was elected as MP for Blackburn and since then her life has been dedicated to politics.
'The people who put me there were my badge of pride.
I worked for them 24 hours a day.'
Interviewer Bel Mooney Producer GAYNOR SHUTTE

Presented by Valerie Singleton and Hugh Sykes
5.00,5.30 News Summary
5.25 PM Letters
5.31 City News continued on FM 5.50-5.55

With BRYAN MARTIN including Financial Report

The final part of a comedy in eight episodes by JAN ETHERINGTON and GAVIN PETRIE.
Marriage of Inconvenience
Producer PETE ATKIN. Stereo

Anna Massey introduces a cautionary note for Christmas.

live from the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. Brian Kay introduces the annual concert of carols and Christmas music, with ST MARY 'S RC JUNIOR SCHOOL CHOIR,
NEWTON LE WILLOWS chorusmistress FREDA BEECHEY
LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA led by MALCOLM STEWART conducted by IAN TRACEY BBC Manchester Stereo
Including 8.20-8.40*
Memories of Christmas from young and not so young Merseysiders.
Compiled by PHIL SMITH BBC Manchester

News, views and information for people with a visual handicap.
Presented by Peter White Producer THENA HESHEL
Questions and comments can be phoned in on [number removed]between 8.30pm and 10.30pm. Factsheet No 51 and quarterly bulletins summarising broadcast information are available on request. Send large sae to: [address removed]

Ken Campbell presents his
School for Clowns at the Lilian Baylis Theatre in London; and David Roper files a Christmas report.
Presenter Natalie Wheen. Producer RICHARD BANNERMAN

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (2)

Presented by Alexander MacLeod