Story: "The Pedlar and his Cat"
Guest storyteller: Frank Windsor

The Royal Institution Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Heinz Wolff of the Medical Research Council

We send signals about our mental state to each other all the time - laughter, tears, expressions. These signals are a simple code adequate for daily life - but to understand someone's personality a much more subtle code has to be understood.

with Robin Day, Richard Kershaw
The News from Kenneth Kendall.

What and who will be the dominant topics and prominent people in Newsday in 1976? Tonight's guests, who are all likely to figure in this year's headlines, give their forecasts, serious and not so serious, for the year ahead.

BBC2 Snooker Championship

Defending champion Graham Miles (Birmingham) who won the title in 1974 at his first attempt, against Dennis Taylor (Blackburn) who has beaten Pulman, Davis and Rex Williams to reach the final in his first Pot Black tournament.

The winner receives the Pot Black trophy and the first prize of £100. Also a prize for the scorer of the highest break in the competition and featuring the Shot of the Series.

Presentation by Joe Davis, OBE
Introduced by Alan Weeks

BBC Birmingham
Book (same title), 65p, from bookshops.

A feature film starring Cicely Tyson

The life and changing times of Jane Pittman , a 110-year-old black woman living in Louisiana. In an interview with a young reporter she looks back over her life and the struggles of her people - from the American Civil War to the Civil Rights demonstrations of the early 1960s.

Winner of nine Emmy awards, including Actress of the Year for Cicely Tyson, this film version of Ernest J. Gaines' novel was originally made for US television.

A Little Unfinished Business
After four nightly programmes which have discussed the practical steps on the way to sexual equality - and queried the desirability of this equality - Ludovic Kennedy asks his audience of women the key question:
Will the coming years see such an acceleration of the sexual revolution that it will revolutionise British society?
Editor MICHAEL TOWNSON

Starring, not surprisingly, Bernard Cribbins and Henry Livings.
Written by Leonard Barras and Jim Andrws, music by The Oldham Tinkers and featuring
Marguerite Hardiman

First day back at work, and even the cat is sick of turkey. Cribbins and Livings provide that post-Christmas pick-me-up full of good resolutions and seasonal promise.

BBC Manchester

with Kenneth Kendall; Weather

John Gielgud reads "Planning Permission" by James Reeves