Today's story: "Dick Whittington and his Cat"
(Repeated on BBC-1 (not Scottish) and BBC Wales at 4.20 p.m.)
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(to 11.20)
The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People
by Professor Philip Morrison
Recorded at the Royal Institution this afternoon
Lecture 4: Saturday at 6.0 p.m.
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The World Tonight
Reporting John Timpson, Peter Woods
and The Weather
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Horizon - Man and science today
If you are feeling guilty about Christmas over-indulgence, this programme offers you some timely advice. Fatness affects fifty per cent of the population and one woman in sixteen is more than fifty per cent overweight. It is perhaps because it is so common that this growing problem is ignored. We know fat people are funny and jolly, but the medical evidence is that obesity is a killing disease.
Tonight's programme investigates the bio-chemical causes, the psychological origins of the problem and takes a look at some promising scientific research.
But it is the fat themselves who talk of the embarrassment and even loneliness their fatness can bring, and the frustrations of trying to lose weight
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A comedy film series which recognises the difference
Starring Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin as Paula and Dick Hollister
with Jack Cassidy as Oscar North, Kenneth Mars as Harry Zarakardos
Along Came Kim
...to foster friendship!
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Drake and Nelson, Chichester and Alec Rose...
Sailing has become Britain's biggest leisure industry with a turnover of £60-million a year, yet Britain's yachtsmen-from the men who own ocean racers worth thousands of pounds down to the smallest family sailor-are at the mercy of an industry run by hundreds of small firms, many of whom are inefficient or are in the business for the fun of the game. It's tough on the sailor whose only concern is to sail for pleasure. He wants the kind of service at the kind of price that only efficiency can give.
Brian Widlake talks to yachtsmen, both famous and unknown; to manufacturers, large and small; and arrives at conclusions which may be unpalatable to the industry but which, in the end, everyone whose pleasure and business is sailing will have to consider seriously if the water around us is to be used as it should-as part of our relaxation and heritage.
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The LSD of seafaring
The Money Programme tonight at 9.5 looks at sailing. For centuries the British have been going down to the sea in ships, but never in the numbers they are today. Sailing has become Britain's biggest leisure industry with a turnover of £60-million a year
from the Aldeburgh Festival Concert Hall
A weekly series featuring some of the world's top jazz artists in concert
Tonight: The Earl Hines All-Stars
Introduced by Benny Green
The Earl Hines All-Stars appear by arrangement with Harold Davison
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by Anne Bronte
A second chance to see this dramatisation in four parts by Christopher Fry
starring Janet Munro
Shown on Saturday
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The end of today in front of tomorrow with Michael Dean, Joan Bakewell, Tony Bilbow, Brian King, Sheridan Morley and tonight's guests
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