A Christmas programme for children at home.
Presenters this week, Julie Stevens, Terence Holland

(to 11.25)

with John Miles
A series of nine programmes.

Night driving can be a severe test of the motorist's skill and concentration.
(First shown on BBC 1)

Introduced by Harry Carpenter.

Henry Armstrong was featherweight champion of the world. He was strong and ambitious and he wanted the lightweight championship as well. There were difficulties in making the match so he missed a whole division and went for the welterweight title. Barney Ross was the champion and this was not only one of his most courageous performances but was to be the end of his career.
Long Island: Moy 31, 1938 - Barney Ross v. Henry Armstrong - The Welterweight Championship of the World

When Henry Armstrong stepped into the ring in New York City for this fight it was a unique occasion, he was featherweight, lightweight and welterweight champion of the world. This was 'Homicide Hank' at the peak of his career, but triple champion or not Ceferino Garcia was not that impressed.
Henry Armstrong v. Ceferino Garcia - The Welterweight Championship of the World

In a specially recorded interview, Henry Armstrong discusses his career.

Gordon Wilkins covers the world of Christmas motoring.

When the lights go up in London at Christmas, traffic comes to a halt. Why are car parks in the shopping streets so scarce?
Barrie Gill, Judith Jackson, Robin Richards and the Roving Eye look for the answer among motorists driving into the West End to do their Christmas shopping.

A History of Disillusion 1918-1933
Written by Correlli Barnett and Tony Essex.
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave.
And the voices of David Bauer, Peter Bridgmont, Anton Diffring, John Fortune, Walter Hertner, Carl Jaffe, Murray Kash, Cyril Luckham, Alec Mango, Paul Martin, Bill Nagy, Norman Wynne
With Dr. Fritz Opel, German student; Eugene Lyons, American journalist; Charles Simmons, Member of Ramsay MacDonald's Government; J.B. Priestley

Series produced by Tony Essex in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Ian Trethowan looks back over the past week in Parliament and introduces reports on big debates in both Houses, questions to Ministers, significant moves behind the scenes, and the effects of M.P.s' work inside and outside Westminster.
With Hardiman Scott, David Holmes.

by The Rev. H. Cunliffe-Jones, Professor of the History of Doctrine in the University of Manchester.
This series of programmes on the development of the figure of Christ in the earliest Christian centuries has been arranged in conjunction with the University of Manchester Extra-Mural Department.
From the University Roscoe Building

followed by The Weather

A last look around the world of television.
Criticism, Discussion, Diversion with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow and tonight's guests.