Story: The Christmas Fir Tree by HANS ANDERSEN Presenters
Floella Benjamin , Bruce Allan Guest storyteller Ted Moult
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with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather

Ollie is in hospital but a visit from Stan is definitely not what the doctor ordered. (Black and white)

Throwing a rock into a fisherman's swim is like knocking down a small boy's sandcastle. The consequences are equally dramatic and tonight we capture Deputy Head-master Gillespie in a performance of rare distinction. Written and narrated by - IAN WOOLDRIDGE froUucer MICHAEL BEGG (Repent) (Postponed from 11 December)

A History of the Blues
The last of a series of films Sticking with the Blues
Since the Second World War, the blues have survived the transformation of -Black America created by the Soul revolution.
Written by GILES OAKLEY
Producer MADDALENA FAGANDINI

Richard Stilgoe presents an optimists' guide to the news of the week. with the help of The Chieftains and Tim Rice
Director DEREK TOWERS
Producer KEN STEPHINSON BBC Manchester

Weather on 2

The Rescue Awards for Archaeology 1978
Every year on sites and fields all over Britain enthusiasts brave winter mu'd and summer flies to excavate and record aspects of our heritage which might otherwise be destroyed.
Tonight the Prince of Wales sees the films of the work of the six amateur groups selected for this year's final and presents the Chronicle Archaeology Award for 1978 to the winner. The subjects for the films range from the discovery by a former RAF pilot of a vast series of prehistoric tribal boundaries in the East Midlands to a lecturer and his wife who spend their holidays and weekends recording ancient cider-making equipment in the West of England.
Magnus Magnusson introduces the programme which will also present the winners of other awards organised by RESCUE, the British Trust for Archaeology.
Film editor ROSIN SALES
Producer ROY DAVIES. Editor BRUCE NORMAN Entries for the 1979 Chronicle Award should be sent to [address removed].

from the Royal Albert Hall
In concert and in conversation with Benny Green , with the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader JOHN GEORGIADIS
Musical director GEORGE WYLE
Part 2 of a two-part programme recorded specially for BBCtv.
Special material PETER VINCENT Sound CHRIS HOLCOMBS Lighting HARRY THOMAS
Designer GARY PRITCHARD
Production Yvonne LITTLEWOOD

Shaping the Future by JONATHAN MILLER
It is possible to sculpt the human form from solid rock, or even mould it from soft clay. But how is the human form actually reproduced and repeated generation after generation? In antiquity, sculpting or moulding was thought to be the only way. Today, it's possible to see sexual reproduction in a completely different way. With music and machines, Jonathan Miller reveals the codes and instructions which ensure reproductive variety in man. Film editor SIMION HAMMOND
Lighting cameraman KEN LOWE
Executive producer KARL SABBAGH Producer PATRICK UDEN
(A printed version of this programme will be in THE LISTENER dated 21 Dec)

with Robert Robinson
Fiction and non-fiction, thrillers, biography and autobiography, annuals and encyclopedias, children's books, books about gardening, do-it-yourself and cookery, books about music, art, travel and royalty. However diverse the subject matter, and however many thousands are published, they all have one thing in common: they are aimed at the lucrative Christmas market, when booksellers hope to make half their yearly profit.
ROBERT ROBINSON , with the help of some friends, takes a look at some of the books that are currently in the shops and suggests that some of them might be just the book for Christmas ... Mrector
chris POWELL
Producer FRANCES WHITAKER

Weather

This week Dr Roy Strong , Director of the Victoria and Albert Mnseum. talks about some of his favourite paintings.
Tonight: A Fête at Bermondsey by JORIS HOEFNAGEL , reproduced by kind permission of the Marquis at Salisbury.