With a big thick coat to keep us warm
Then we can face the winter storm
Today's story: "Jack the Steeplejack" by Molly Cox

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Professor Charles Taylor.

How do woodwind instruments make the sounds they do? What goes on inside a pipe and what sound comes out? Could you tell the difference between the sounds of a Stradivarius violin and those of a modern model?
Professor Taylor explains that each musical instrument carries its own 'fingerprints' or 'signature,' even the human voice.
(Lecture 4: Wednesday, 6.30 pm)

with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad.
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From Paris, featuring the top tennis competitors of 1971: Stan Smith, Ilie Nastase, Jan Kodes, Zeljko Franulovic, Cliff Richey, Pierre Barthes and Clark Graebner.
The seven players who topped the tournament averages in 1971 played each other in this Round Robin Pepsi Grand Prix Final for prize money totalling $50,000, with the title of Master's Champion and $15,000 going to the man with most victories.
Harry Carpenter introduces the best of the action at the Coubertin Stadium in Paris.
In collaboration with the French Television Service.

Items of interest, information and investigation for collectors about collecting.
This week's subjects include:
A comprehensive collection of bicycles which are still very much in use.
'There is not enough genuine 18th-century furniture to stock two shops, let alone the thousands that exist': Arthur Negus discusses the truth of this statement with the man who wrote it, William Crawley.
Some viewers' questions answered by James Norbury.
Introduced by Hugh Scully.
(from Bristol)

by Ian Curteis
[Starring] Rupert Davies as Sir Almroth Wright, Bill Gavin as Alexander Fleming

At 47, Fleming is an eminent bacteriologist. But the shy, introvert qualities that make him a fine researcher don't help him in the battles with his boss, Sir Almroth Wright, to make his greatest discovery - penicillin - into practical form.
'Splendid... strong theatre... thoroughly enjoyable' - The Mirror
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Richard Williams with the news, the views, the sounds of today's music.
In the studio The Kinks, David Ackles and any guests who may drop in.
(This Week's Sounds: page 15)