11.25 Caring for Older People: Voluntary Workers
11.50 Maths: The Alvey Report 3: Software Engineering
Presented by GEOFFREY PARDON
There is a quiet revolution going on in the production of computer software. The 'craft' of software writing, in which Britain has considerable expertise, is developing into an engineering disci-What has caused this development and what are the benefits for the future?
Taking part are LAURENCE CLARKE (The Alvey Directorate); DAVID TALBOT (The Alvey Directorate); DR DARREL INCE (Open University); GEOFFREY HOLMES (Systems Designers Ltd)
Produced by GLANFFRWD THOMAS
A BBC/Open University production
12.15 Towards One Force of Nature
In the spring of this year one of the most remarkable physics experiments this century has seen came to an end at CERN. near Geneva. The experiment confirms a far-reaching theory that takes science closer to the unification of the forces of Nature.
Producers JOHN STRATFORD. JAMES BURGS ANDREW MILLINGTON. BARRIE WHATLEY
A BBC/Open University production

The Academy
'We don't shoot to wound or shoot to scare. Our agents are trained to hit the body, the centre mass.' (Head of FBI Firearms Training)
This film follows a group of young men and women receiving basic training in FBI methods at the Academy, a training complex near Washington. Over 15 strenuous weeks, former accountants, teachers and lawyers are taught the latest scientific techniques of law enforcement—including how to use a gun with 'deadly force.
Horizon editor GRAHAM MASSEY
Producer CHRISTOPHER LA FONTAINE

The Final Five
Alfred Brendel concludes the series with a performance of Beethoven's last Sonata, the profound C minor, Op 111. Completed in 1822, the work comprises two strongly contrasted movements in perhaps the most powerful of all the sonatas. Of the final chord, Brendel writes, 'This chord.... opens up the silence that follows, a silence we now perceive to be more important than the sound that preceded it'.
Sound NORMAN CANLIN
Lighting GEORGE FERGUSON Designer JIM LONGMUIR
Producer KEITH ALEXANDER Director HILLARY BOULDING BBC Scotland
BBC Music Guide: Beethoven Piano Sonatas, £2.25 from booksellers and music shops

The seventh of eight programmes looking behind the doors of Westminster and Parliament. Narrated by Anthony Quayle
The Business of the House
About 70 new Acts of Parliament are 'enacted' every year at Westminster after a long and complicated process.
Book (same title), £12.95 from booksellers * Subtitles on Ceefax page 270

Schweppes Welsh Cup Second Round
Abercyoan v Maesteg
ABERCYNAN are one of the top junior clubs in Wales well-known for their Cup runs. They will be tough opposition for MAESTEG, one of the most experienced senior sides.
NIGEL STARMER-SMITH commentates, and reviews the season so far, which has featured international action involving Canada, Japan, Australia, France, Romania, Wales, Scotland, England and New Zealand.
Series producer HUW JONES
BBC videobooh, Ireland's Triple Crown (mcv 5018), from retailers
Rugby League results and tables on Ceefax

High-speed winter sports action and superb scenery from the mountain slopes of Europe, today featuring: The Men's Downhill from Val Gardena
High in the Italian Dolomites the famous 'Camel's Humps' provide one of the most spectacular sights in downhill ski-racing.
Last year, reigning champion FRANZ KLAMMER was third and first in two races held here and he must be favourite to clinch his fifth World Cup victory on the 'Saslonch' course today. Commentator DAVID VINE
Television presentation by the rrAUAN TV SERVICE Producer JIM RESIDI

Plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear, with Jan Leeming A digest of the news of the week and other world matters of interest seen by news cameras around the world: the interesting, the picturesque, the important and the dramatic, plus a visual commentary for those who cannot hear, with Jan Leeming

Brian Widlake and Valerie Singleton present Britain's most popular financial and business programme.
With
LUKE CASEY, NICK CLARKE ,
BILL KERR ELLIOTT and MARK ROGERSON reporting from home and abroad on your money and other people's.
Including this week:
Where is Marc Rich ?: The search for one of the world's biggest and most controversial commodity dealers-Marc Rich who, together with his companies, now faces tax and fraud charges in the United States, and' Money Maker at the Sales: how to make the most of the post-Christmas bargains, and avoid the 'special offers' that aren't so special.
Director DON HARLEY

It is almost the end of the school term and up and down the country there are three or four thousand Marys and Josephs preparing their school's ritual nativity play.
St Mary's Primary School in Sheffield does it every year, and tonight Russell Harty meets the young actors and actresses and shares in their glorious mixture of innocence and experience.
BBC Manchester (Repeat)

Europe's greatest river, the Danube, has formed a vast delta on the Black Sea. Hidden within a beautiful landscape of willows, water and reeds, there is an abundance of life. Carp and catfish grow to a massive size in the murky waters, yet even they are dwarfed by the primeval sturgeon. Pelicans, cormorants and fishermen live off the wealth of fish. Herons, egrets and ibis probe the shallows, and islands of reeds hide snakes, frogs and terrapins.
Today, this last stronghold of the white pelican has a precarious existence on the edge of industrialised Europe. Each spring around 5,000 birds return from Africa to nest in the dense reeds - but for how much longer?
BBC Bristol
The World About Us 1984 Wildlife Calender £2.35 from leading stores

with Jan Leeming ; Weather

The television review programme with Ludovic Kennedy , who this week discusses The Aerodrome (BBC1), Horizon - The Academy (BBC2) and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (Central)
Plus: Fly-on-the-Wall or Peeping Tom? Sue Summers examines the ethics of cinéma-vérité documentaries
Producer CHRIS MOHR

A Forty minutes documentary

As the festive season gathers momentum, London's streets seethe with gartered girls rushing from one knees-up to another to embarrass chosen victims with grimly jocular songs celebrating birthdays, weddings, retirements, christenings or office parties. They are part of the burgeoning singing-telegram industry, which came to these shores from America a few years ago, and which has ramified wondrous-wise ever since.

Already the gorillagram, flashgram and strippagram are old hat. Hiring a practical joke is the 'smart' thing now. So bogus businessmen invade office blocks, 'jilted brides' rail at bride-grooms on their wedding day, and over-amorous couples scandalise guests at parties.

Who are the pranksters, and who the prankees? Why do they do it? Some are simply the unemployed who have got on their bikes. Others are actors honing techniques. Two stripping nuns are taking advantage of government aid to small businesses.

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Starring Michael Sarrazin as The Creature, James Mason as Dr Polidori, David McCallum as Henry Clerval, Leonard Whiting as Victor Frankenstein, Jane Seymour as Agatha Prima, Nicola Paget as Elizabeth Fanshawe, Michael Wilding as Sir Richard Fanshawe, Clarissa Kaye as Lady Fanshawe, Agnes Moorehead as Mrs Blair, Margaret Leighton as Foreign Lady, Ralph Richardson as Lacey, John Gielgud as Chief Constable, Tom Baker as Sea captain

Following the premature death of his brother, medical student Victor Frankenstein meets Henry Clerval, a man with disturbing theories about conquering death. The young Frankenstein visits Clerval's laboratories for a demonstration of his experiments...

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