The Saturday Show including at 7.45 Down to Earth with Alan Titchmarsh
BBC Pebble Mill
Love Affair shot to the top of the charts with their first record. Today lead singer Steve Ellis looks back on favourite records by Marvin Gaye, Marbles, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent.
BBC Bristol
Another fun-filled extravaganza
with Peter Clayton
You Together with Your House and Possessions and Other Things as Well
After a special consumer report on the title, it has now been changed to
You and Your Things with top consumer watchdogs Lyn Folds-Over (Helen Atkinson Wood) Mike Channel (Angus Deayton) Martin Brown (Michael Fenton Stevens) Oivind Vinstra (Geoffrey Perkins) John Travolta, Financial Editor (Philip Pope)
Written by Geoffrey Perkins and Angus Deayton with additional material by Michael Fenton Stevens
Produced to conform with British Safety Standards by David Tyler
(see panel)
Introduced by Barry Davies
Let Sport on 2 ease you through your last-minute Christmas shopping with an afternoon of entertainment and fun.
Football: Barclays League
A reduced fixture list packed with quality with Arsenal, Liverpool, Everton, Manchester United and Nottingham Forest all in action. Regular reports plus second-half commentary from a top match.
Racing
Peter Bromley is at Ascot for the feature race of the day:
1.55 £20,000 SGB Handicap Steeplechase (3m)
Rugby Union: Toshiba Divisional Championship: Midlands v North; London v South and South West
The final round of matches which will decide the 1987 champions. Ian Robertson and Alastair Hignell report.
Rugby League: John Player Trophy
Eddie Hemmings and David Watkins report from the second semi-final.
The Four Seasons 4: Spring of 53
The Stanley Matthews FA Cup final - Blackpool v Bolton Wanderers; Sir Edmund Hilary's conquest of Mount Everest and Sir Gordon Richards's first Derby.
There's also news from Karachi on this rest day in the Third Test between Pakistan and England, Davis Cup tennis from Stockholm and fun from the traditional pre-Christmas equestrian party at Olympia.
5.00 Sports Report
Who will take the honours this year? Barry Harwood, Andrew Young and Ian McNeill travel to Burton on Trent for the finale. Question master Peter Jones. Referee Chris Rhys
Steve Race celebrates the role of the arranger in popular music.
More musical teasers with Keith Fordyce
Devised by DON DAVIS Producer ANDY WILSON
James Galway presents a suitably festive concert for the Christmas season including
Winter from the Four Seasons by Vivaldi, popular classics by Debussy and Khachaturian and a second half consisting of carols both old and new. With the BBC Concert Orchestra led by MARTIN LOVEDA conducted by Christopher Adey and the Ambrosian Singers chorusmaster JOHN MCCARTHY with the Boys of St James Parish Church, Grimsby choirmaster DAVID OVERTON Producer JOHN LANGRIDGE
including at 8.20-8.40* music by the Light Brigade and Eric Hill (guitar)
Producer JOHN LANGRIDGE
The strings of the BBC Radio Orchestra led by MICHAEL TOMAUN re-create the magic of Mantovani this week in a special programme for the festive season, with guest conductor Roland Shaw.
Presented by Bill Rennells Producer MADELEINE CUMING
'I'd love to turn you on.' Producer MARK RADCLIFFE BBC Manchester
Dave Gelly offers you a weekend punchbowl. Producer BARBARA PAGE
presents Nightride Producers PAM cox ROGER BOWMAN and GRAHAM BELCHERE
Producer IAN GRANT
The Early Show
