Extending season's greetings to viewers and presenting a special programme of music to celebrate Christmas and entertainment for the holidays.
Producer yousuf AZIZ
Executive producer ASBOK RAMPAL BBC Pebble Mill

Story: The Silver Christmas Tree by PAT HUTCHINS Presenters
Elizabeth Millbank , Johnny Ball
Materials for Play School on Ceefax p 278

featuring the presentation to the Sports Personality o] the Year
Action and entertainment in a gala programme which comes from the BBC Television Centre in London. Over 400 leading sports personalities gather to re-live memorable moments and outstanding achievements of 1982. Including presentations to the Team of the Year and the Outstanding Overseas Personality Sports Review introduced by Frank Bough and Harry Carpenter with David Coleman and Jimmy Hill

Peace on Earth
Hugh Harman's finest cartoon, first released at Christmas 1939. When Yuletide carollers sing 'Peace on earth, good will to men two young squirrels ask their grandfather what' men' are ...
An MGM cartoon

by CHARLES DICKENS in four parts, with Michael Bryant 2: The Ghost of Christmas Past
(Part 3 tomorrow at 3.40 pm)

The feature film starring
Tyrone Power , Piper Laurie Julia Adams
Mark Fallon , a dashing Mississippi riverboat gambler, wins an honest card game with the deceitful Laurent Duroux. But among the winnings is a diamond necklace which, unknown to Mark, belongs to Laurent's sister, the beautiful Angélique Duroux. To explain the loss of the necklace, Laurent conspires to have Mark branded as a cheat and a villain ...
Screenplay by SETON I. MILLER Produced by TED RICHMOND
Directed by RUDOLPH MATS . Films: page 7

Cries of thousands of wintering wild geese echo across our estuaries and lochs. With the first signs of spring they depart north-wards to their nesting grounds in the high Arctic.
Narrator DOUGLAS LEACH
Presented by ROBIN PRYTHERCH BBC Bristol

in The Jitney Elopement
Charlie hastens to the aid of a wealthy heiress begging to be saved from an unwelcome suitor. Hotly pursued, Charlie and his lady flee in a jitney -an old model T Ford - in a wild chase over rough roads.
Written and directed by CHARLIE CHAPLIN New music composed by ALAN ROPER Music directed by DENNIS WILSON
Executive producer WILLIAM FITZWATER (Block and white)

starring
The Move
Erin's long-awaited vacation is disrupted by a homecoming that brings both joy and heartache.
Based on EARL HAMNER jr's autobiographical novel Spencer's Mountain Written by KATHLEEN HITE
Directed by HARVEY LAIDMAN

Happy Loving Couples Part 3
What sort of relationships do you want? A good mate? A girl- or boyfriend? Marriage? Or something else? The last 16 Up meets four couples with different relationships: BEV and MARK, getting married; TRACEY and STEVE, DEB and RICH, living together; JAIN and SARA: 'We're perfectly happy just as we are -two little gays'.
Directed by PATRICK TITLEY and DIANNE KENNY
Produced by TONY MATTHEWS

with subtitles, followed by Weather

The programme that reflects the experience, the achievement, the entertainment of Britain's black communities.
Introduced by Juliet Alexander Vince Herbert and Mary Pett This week's music from Melba Moore
Producers ROY CHAPMAN. AMANDA THEUNISSEN Series producer KEITH SHEATHER BBC Bristol

presented by John Tusa
The monthly history show that looks at the present in the light of the past and re-examines historical reputation. Among the items in December's programme:
Sir Thomas More , who lost his head on the scaffold in 1535. In 1937 he was made a saint. Now the heroic reputation of the ' man for all seasons' is under attack. Timewatch looks again at the life of a Tudor statesman.
Unemployment in Britain 150 years ago when the workhouse became the symbol of oppression and poverty that lasted over a century. Bernard Clark investigates the Poor Law of 1834, designed to cut spending on the poor and unemployed and which left bitter memories for generations.
And the Russian spy scare of 1927 when the British Cabinet unwittingly betrayed to Moscow the code-breaking secrets of British intelligence.
Executive producer TIMOTHY CARDAM Editor BRUCE NORMAN

A film series starring andwith
Death Takes a Holiday
... well, not quite a holiday, just a brief suspension of the killing; but not the dying. Still, although peace on earth for the 4077th is sadly thin on the ground, the spirit of Christmas does prevail because the children come - bringing their own grace and joy with them....
Written and directed by MIKE FARRELL

starring
Donald Pleasence Geraldine McEwan Nigel Hawthorne and The last of seven parts dramatised by ALAN PLATER from
The Warden and Barchester Towers by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
The Dean of Barchester has died and Obadiah Slope has asked to be considered as his successor. At the Ullathorne garden party, Eleanor received and rejected two proposals of marriage. Now La Signora Neroni has selected a third suitor for her.
Music composed and conducted by DEREK BOURGEOIS
Lighting HOWARD KING
Script editor BETTY WILLINGALE Designer CHRIS PEMSEL
Producer JONATHAN POWELL Directed by DAVID GILES

Three days before Christmas, David Rappaport has a close encounter with three shocking pink dancing girls, two performing seals, and a headmaster in a Christmas tree ...
Plus: a seasonally apt report on home birth rights; a film featuring community shopping in the Outer Hebrides; and Juliet Blake 's Gripe-vine of the week. PS: Don't forget your Photographic Competition entries - send them to Grapevine, BBCtv, London W12 8QT
Producer PETER LEE-WRIGHT COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

with Michael Buerk ; Weather

plays Rhythm on Two from The Assembly Rooms, Derby The first of two programmes featuring the trombonist Chris Barber with a mix of traditional New Orleans and his own brand of jazz.
Producer KEN GRIFFIN