Story: "Spud Comes to Play" by JOAN SOLOMON
Photographs by RICHARD HARVEY
Presenters Sheelagh Gilbey, Ben Thomas

The first day of the December meeting
1.15 The Kineton Opportunity Handicap Steeplechase (2m)
1.50 The McEwans Lager Steeplechase (Handicap. 3m If)
2.25 The Coral Golden Hurdle Qualifying Race (Handicap. 3m)
3.0 The Three Fives Younj Steeple-chasers' Qualifier (Novices. 2m)
Introduced by JULIAN WILSON
Commentators PETER O'SULLEVAN , RICHARD PITMAN
TV presentation by Richard TILLING
Overnight declarations, tips and results on Ceefax

in Towed In a Hole
Stan and Ollie, not content with being fishmongers, decide to buy their own boat and go fishing.

A series in 11 parts
6:Pigsy, King and God
Or how Pigsy was gratified to find that his virtues were recognised at last.
Music by MICKY YOSHINO
English adaptation by DAVID WEIR
English version directed by MICHAEL BAKEWELL for WORLD WIDE SOUND LONDON Directed by TOSHI AOKI
Produced by NTV and KOKUSAI HOEI

Are you out of work? Do you find it difficult dealing with the Department of Health and Social Security?
Presenters Indira Joshi, Burt Kwouk, Isla St Clair, Marina Sirtis and Trevor Thomas give advice on how to apply for benefits at the DHSS.
Scriptwriter NETTIE LOWENSTEIN
Consultant DENISE GUBBAY
Directors JEREMY ORLEBAR, SUSANNA CAPON
Producer BARBARA DERKOW
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including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing followed by Weather

Six films about living music
There are no academies for rock musicians; you learn by performing. For aspiring rock bands, creating a distinctive 'sound' is vital if they are to succeed in the fiercely competitive rock-music industry. Earlier this year a young Bristol band, the A.T.'s, spent two days with a record producer, rehearsing and recording one simple three-minute song. In rehearsal they worked on the tiny details that go to make up the 'personality' of the sound, and in the sterile atmosphere of the recording studio they tried to keep that 'personality' alive.
BBC Bristol

Presented by Angela Rippon The sixth of 16 programmes Nature in Trust
There are some 2,000 nature reserves in Britain; together they make up a cross-section of our wildest and richest countryside. Some are managed by the Nature Conservancy Council but many more are run by the local County Trusts. How do these national and local interests work to serve wildlife? Can we continue to justify setting aside productive areas of land exclusively for nature conservation? And can we visit these reserves to see the conserved wildlife for ourselves? ANGELA RIPPON explores the nature reserves and country parks around the expanding city of Peterborough. Back in the studio with naturalists Phil Drabble, Richard Mabey, Margaret Palmer and Frank Perring she reviews the place of nature in our modern countryside.
Film cameraman DAVID SAUNDERS
Produced by PETER CRAWFORD. BBC Bristol
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The Civil Service is under fire from all sides. There is criticism that it recruits the wrong kind of people, that it doesn't understand industry and that it is too reluctant to take risks.
David Jessel reports on the balance of power between ministers and the mandarins. Would we be better governed with a Civil Service that was less inbred and more willing to experiment?

by Bernard MacLaverty
Starring Eleanor Bron as Miss Schwarz

'One of your Popes had a great thing to say once. He had been listening to some music by Palestrina with Palestrina himself. He said to him, " The law, my dear Palestrina, ought to employ your music to lead hardened criminals to repentance".'
BBC Northern Ireland

with Peter Snow, Charles Wheeler, John Tusa and Peter Hobday.

Professor Laurie Taylor with late-night conversation and music from the Greenwood Theatre, London.