A programme for children at home
Today's story: "Cinderella and the Silver Shoe"
(Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
(Colour)
(to 11.20)

A monthly series of programmes for doctors
Repeated next Tuesday evening on BBC-1 and BBC Wales
(to 13.45)

The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People
by Professor Philip Morrison

The surface of every physical system is very different from its insides and is directly concerned with its environment. By examining large and small animals, a horse and a mouse, we discover that Gulliver was in error-he never could have eaten the food of 1728 Lilliputians.
Recorded at the Royal Institution this afternoon
Lecture 3: Thursday at 6.0 p.m.
(Colour)
(to 19.00)

The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents, at home and abroad, of BBC News
followed by The Weather
(Colour)

by Bill Craig
[Starring] Iain Cuthbertson, Michael Gambon, Joseph Brady, Edith Macarthur
Guest stars Grant Taylor, Ian McCulloch

A dangerous, troubled frontier - where cross words soon lead to crossed swords and a brawl can start a war. This is the explosive situation on the Anglo-Scottish border in the 1560s, when men like Ker of Cessford, Warden of the Scottish Middle March, struggle to keep order over a hot-headed people owing more allegiance to their surnames than to the Crown. Peace-loving families depend for their livelihood on their cattle and for their defence on their solid stone castles. Gavin Ker of Slitrig, eldest son of such a family, seeks a wider world... but a shattering experience lies in wait for him.
See page 38
(Colour)

Fanny Cradock talks about herself and her work in a special colour feature on page 67
(Colour)

by Patrick Garland
adapted from the outrageous memoirs of the seventeenth-century gossip John Aubrey
with Roy Dotrice as John Aubrey
A BBC-tv Talent Associates production

"A moving, funny, and wholly delightful re-creation in which the character of the garrulous old man manages to transcend 400 years of history"
"Amusing, touching, convincingly real, and quite unforgettable"
"I don't think I took my eyes off the screen for the whole 85 minutes"
These are some of the things that were said after the first showing of Brief Lives. Roy Dotrice, who plays John Aubrey, is the only actor, and throughout the performance he never leaves the set.
(Colour)

A brilliant award-winning film pointing out the way the creative process differs from ordinary experience... and in what ways it is very much like it.
Written and directed by Saul Bass
For the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation

In this cartoon Hollywood art director Saul Bass, whose title sequence for Around the World in Eighty Days has become a classic, wrote, directed, and animated a film which says more about man's creative process in twenty-five minutes than many a heavyweight production in twice that time.
(Colour)

(Colour)

As 1968 sinks slowly in the West, Pick of the Year looks back through the eyes of some of the stars of BBC-2, at a few of the great moments that will live for ever (or at least till 1969) in the memory of: Kenneth Williams, Max Robertson, Fanny Cradock, Dudley Moore, Marty Feldman, Robert Erskine, Sheila Hancock, Ernie Wise, Marius Goring, Robert Robinson, James Cameron, Drusilla Beyfus, Benny Green, Joan Bakewell, Robert Morley

(Colour)