Today's story:
The King Who Liked Mince Pies Written by JULIE MICHAELS Presenters
Bruce Allan , Julie Stevens

The last of ten programmes about the office of Prime Minister and its development during the last 50 years.
A Better Tomorrow
The Heath administration felt that it had a duty to try to modernise Britain. Did it try to do too much too quickly? With LORD CARR and THE RT HON EDWARD HEATH , MP Written and presented by PROFESSOR DAVID DILKS
Produced by HOWARD SMITH

with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2

Your Age? Your Show! Presented by ROY HUDD and IRENE THOMAS
Producer PETER NEWINGTON BBC Manchester.

Michael Charlton and Richard Kershaw present news and opinion with David Sells , including
Foreign Report from the BBC news correspondents around the world. Newsreader Kenneth Kendall
Editor DAVID WITHEROW

for the BBC2 Trophy The Final
The culmination of three months' football that has produced more than its fair share of shocks, triumphs, disappointments, and dramatic finishes.
Highlights of the first half and live coverage of the second half. Commentator EDDIE WARING
Producer NICK HUNTER. BBC Manchester

The National Cat Club Championship Show is the biggest in the world - an opportunity to see and compare the very best cats in Britain.
Not only a bewildering range of pedigree cats compete for the honour of being top of their class but household pets too have their chance of glory.
Lesley Judd and Nick Henderson visit London's Olympia to take a look at some of the 2,000 cats on show.

9.0 pm Prize Cats. The National Cat Show is to cats what Crufts is to dogs - with a difference. Nick Henderson, a vet and a judge, who presents tonight's programme with Lesley Judd, writes here about the show and some of the cats to be seen there:

On Saturday 10 December in London's Olympia the largest cat show in the world was opened to visitors. Although similar in prestige to the famous Crufts Dog Show, the National Cat Show differs in one important respect - not all the prizes go to the aristocratic pedigree cats on view. There is a large section devoted to the household moggie. For me, this is the most enjoyable area to visit. As a judge in this section, I cannot judge on specific points, as you can in the pedigree classes. You look, therefore, for presentation, general appearance (especially the coat and eyes) and, most important of all, their willingness to be handled. Pet cats, some of whom may have started life as unhappy strays, can be seen in the balcony. On the ground floor are all the pedigree classes. Most popular, of course, is still the Siamese. When they were introduced in 1870, they were thought to have come from the Royal Palace of Siam. The chocolate point was only recognised as a pure breed in 1950. They have a coat of ivory shading, flecked sometimes with chocolate brown hairs, and ears, face, paws and tail markings of a rich milk chocolate colour. The eyes should be bright and clear, and vivid blue in colour. Another cat from the Far East is the Birman. It has long fur, but the coat is similar in pattern to the Siamese. Their forefathers were thought to have guarded the Burmese Temples. They have a longish bushy tail, china-blue eyes and - a distinctive feature - white paws, rather like gloves, with those on the rear legs coming to a point like a gauntlet. One of the most recent new breeds is the Cornish Rex. Not everybody's favourite, this breed has an unusual fine close-textured, curly coat. The first was born in Cornwall in 1950. The Rex comes from the rabbits of the same name, whose coat type they share. Their heads are like the Siamese with large ears.

A free-wheeling adaptation of the Chinese classic.
The beautiful concubine, Li Chih , sacrifices her love for the Emperor, in order to save China.
Directed by KATSUMI NISHIKAWA
English adaptation by DAVID WEIR With the voices Of MICHAEL MCCLAIN
MIRIAM MARGOLYES , PETER MAR1NKEB JOHN BLYTHE , DAVID BLAGDEN
GARFIELD MORGAN ,BURT KWOUK Produced by NTv, Tokyo
Thememusic,JapaneseandEnglish versions, record (RESL 50) from record thops

Investigates, Discovers, Questions With MICHAEL DEAN , JEREMY JAMES
JEANNE LA CHARD, JACK PIZZEY
NICK ROSS , HAROLD WILLIAMSON
This week: Mrs Joan Lee (deceased) - Case for Concern
A woman's death in the operating theatre sparks off a two-months' row between two top consultants -a brain surgeon and an anaesthetist. Patients are prepared for operations that do not take place. Administrators cannot control the consultants. The area health authority's internal inquiry at first fails to satisfy the Minister of Health, and even today disturbs many who claim the truth has not come out.
In this investigative film, Jack Pizzey looks at the implications which can arise when consultants, for whatever motives, try to fulfil too many commitments .. s
Film cameraman NICK GIFFORD Sound ALEX BROWN
Film editor SIMON ROSE Producer ALAN PATIENT Editor MICHAEL LATHAM

Weather

takes a look at today's rock music with films, album tracks, reviews and guests.
In the studio
Meal Ticket and Krazy Kat
Introduced by Anne Nightingale
Director TOM CORCORAN
Producer MICHAEL APPLETON

JILL BALCON reads
What's done cannot be undone by ANNA ADAMS