Part 3 the Presidents starring and First Ladies
Maggie has been promoted to Head Maid and her daughter Lillian, desperate for work during the Depression, has now joined the White House staff as third maid. In today's episode the Hoover administration becomes a casualty of the Great
Depression, making way for the New Deal politics of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Screenplay by GWEN BAGNI and PAUL DUBOV
Produced by ED FRIENDLY and MICHAEL O'HERUHY
Directed by MICHAEL OHERLIHY

with subtitles, followed by Weather

Games with Edna with the voices of KENNETH WILLIAMS Written and directed by NICK SPARGO

with Floella Benjamin Joanna Monro
Andrew Secombe and Nick Wilton
Calling all extremely clever people! In the minutes leading up to the start of Fast Forward, you may want to exercise your brain! If so, here is Professor Thurbnoyd's impossible problem! If it takes a man a year to walk a mile, how many apples in a bunch of grapes? Put your answers on a cream cracker and eat it. Then watch Fast Forward! Musical director JONATHAN COHEN Title and incidental music STEVE BROWN
Designer SARAH PARKINSON Associate producer TREVOR MCCALLUM
Series producer ANN REAY Director DAVID CRICHTON

Written by Ken Pettus.
starring and

John Cannon needs cattle from Mexican ranchers for his Army beef contract, but finds the frightened men are being forced to sell at cheap prices to a ruthless cattle buyer named Dolf Tanner. John is going to have to fight a ruthless battle with his pirate competitor.

Starring Phil Silvers as the irrepressible Master Sergeant Ernest G. Bilko.

Anxious to corner the award as 'Soldier of the Month' and win a five-day pass, Bilko gets a sudden and unexpected set-back when an insubordinate recruit is assigned to his platoon.

3: Early European Carols Presented by Geraint Evans with the William Byrd Choir and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge
What was St Francis's role in the history of Christmas? And what do the three ships in the carol of the same name have to do with the story of Christ?
In today's programme Sir Geraint looks across the Channel to see how carols that started as 'Noels' in Europe turn out to be among the most popular sung in Britain today. Today's carols:
'0 come, 0 come, Emmanuel' 'In dulci jubilo'
'I saw three ships'
'II est n6 Ie divin enfant' 'Orientis partibus' Film editor IAN PITCH
Assistant producer IAN PAUL Producer emus HUNT BBC Bristol
(Part 4 tomorrow at 7.10 pm)

Juliet Alexander and Vince Herbert present the last in the present series of the black communities' magazine programme.
This week: What's it like growing old in Britain? Most of the people who came over in the 50s and 60s always meant to go home when they retired. What's happened to those who haven't? At Christmas,
Ebony looks at the position of elderly black people here and what is being done to help them.
It may not be a very merry Christmas for
Georgina Buckman and her two sons, who live with the threat of deportation hanging over them. Ebony examines the 1981 Nationality Act and how it's affecting black people. And Dub poet Maka B says Happy Christmas in his own particular way. Producer ROY CHAPMAN Series producer
AMANDA THEUNISSEN

Presented by Ian Hamilton Huckleberry Finn was published a century ago this month. Christopher Bigsby went down the Mississippi in search of Mark Twain and his hero. Dr Johnson was not a doctor, not even a graduate, before he wrote his dictionary. This is the story of how he did it and what it did for him and English literature.
Kipling and Shelley, Yeats and Auden in the Daily Mirror. D. A. N. Jones investigates the appeal of Kingsley Amis's daily poetry page.
Producer JENNY COWAN Executive producer TIMOTHY GARDAM
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The last in a series of stories by FREDERIC RAPHAEL Ben Kingsley Diane Keen
Jeremy Child and Alfred Marks in Sleeps Six
A sunny story
Geoff Craven is a successful film producer with a lovely wife, a classy agent and social ambitions. When he rents a gorgeous villa on the Riviera, which sleeps six, they all look forward to a perfect holiday. But do they get it?
Music composed by RICHARD HOLMES
Make-up designer SUZAN BROAD
Costume designer JOYCE MORTLOCK Film editor JOHN STOTHART Photography JOHN HOOPER
) Designer DON HOMFRAY
' Produced and directed by JAMES CELLAN JONES
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David Jessel and Sue Cook present a live look at the world of law and the lawyers, crime and the criminals, justice and the judges.
With reports by Ed Boyle Director PIETER MORPURGO Producer HUGH PURCELL Editor PETER CHAFER

John Tusa , Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith present the reports and interviews that matter with the analysis that counts.