The last episode
Maggie retired in 1939 and some of the White House staff died in World War n, but Lillian continues to serve backstairs through the years of the Roosevelt,
Truman and Eisenhower administrations.

with subtitles; Weather

starring John Wayne Kirk Douglas Howard Keel
Released on parole,
Taw Jackson decides to take revenge on Pierce, the man who put him in prison and took his farm, and forms a gang to steal a gold shipment guarded by a horse-drawn steel fortress-the 'War Wagon'.
Screenplay by CLAIR HUFFAKER Based on his novel Badman
Produced by MARVIN SCHWARTZ Directed by BURT KENNEDY
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4: The Protestant Christmas Presented by Geraint Evans with the William Byrd Choir and the Choir of All Saints Church, London Wl
Why was Christmas banned by law? The founder of Protestantism, Martin Luther , wrote carols, but the Puritans denounced them as pagan or popish or both. But when the monarchy was restored to England, so was Christmas and Carol writing began again. Today's carols: 'Away in a manger', 'While shepherds watched', 'We three kings', 'The waits carol' ('Greensleeves'), "The three kings'.
Film editor ANDREW NAYLOR Assistant producer IAN PAUL Producer CHRIS HUNT BBC Bristol

Blues and Beyond
In the second of two programmes celebrating black music, Chicago bluesman Julio Finn brings together performers from Africa, America and the Caribbean. Recorded in London's Moonshine Arts Centre, the performances cover blues, reggae and 'griot' music from West Africa. With Foday Musa Suso, the Eddie C. Campbell Blues Band, Gail Peters and Dennis Bovell and the Dub Band. Director STEVE CONNELLY Producer GILES OAKLEY Made by the Community Programme Unit

The last in the series Off the Beaten Track
Despite the recession, the holiday business is still growing. But the competition is fierce.
A small holiday firm decides to expand into the risky long-haul market - exotic holidays in far-off places. In early 1984 chief executive
Graham Phillips scoured the world looking for the right locations, including the Borneo jungle, where headhunters might add spice to his package. By October the brochure is out -but will anyone buy the holidays? Narrator
Hugh Sykes
Research ROBERT THIRKELL Executive producer JONATHAN CRANE
Producer JOHN GROOM

Christmas Special
Presented by Chris Kelly , with food specialist and cook Michael Barry , and drinks expert Jill Goolden. Which are the best
Christmas puds in the shops - and why? What's the craftiest way to cope with all those turkey leftovers? How do you make a really good home-made wine? What's a Jerusalem artichoke - and what do you do with it? Join Food and Drink's special outside broadcast from Exmoor, where the locals celebrate a very individual Christmas. Director JILL DAWSON
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE

After sweltering in the heat of Palm Springs, Key West, Phoenix and other exotic locations, Jonathan King goes to the other extreme for the last in the present series. He is in frosty Seattle in the north-west comer of the USA, looking at how
Americans are preparing for Christmas. He also looks back on some of the big entertainment successes of 1984 and discovers why Seattle has become the testing-ground for avantgarde films and stage plays. Research COLIN MARCHANT
Executive producer MICHAEL HURLL Producer GORDON ELSBURY

... of documentary. A series of films portraying issues, institutions and individuals. The Loved Ones
The Animal Medical Center in New York never closes. Through its ever-open door pass all creatures great and small. There is nowhere quite like it in the world. For 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the hospital's vets minister to the diverse animal kingdom of New York, performing routine treatment and major complex surgery. The hospital exists because of the central part animals play in the lives of some human beings. In a real sense the staff are treating the pet owner as well as the pet.
Recognising its pastoral role, the centre runs a counselling service. This may consist simply of tips on how to rectify a pet's aberrant behaviour - but it may be a longer session attempting to reconcile a distraught owner to the inevitable death of 'a loved one'.
Film cameraman ALEX HANSEN Film recordist JOHN PRITCHARD Film editor ROBIN SALOS
Executive producer ROGER MILLS Director TED CUSBY

Christmas Special
Presented by Paul Heiney
The magazine for people on the move over Christmas. For sun-lovers,
Kathy Rochford reports on what it's like this winter in the Canary Islands. For skiers, a look at what you get for your money at one of the major Alpine resorts.
Jim Bacon with a weather forecast right up to
Christmas. Full travel information, with the latest news on delays and likely jams. Plus the best of winter getaway bargains (details also on The Travel Show's information line: [number removed]). Director SUE LOCHEAD
Producer ROGER MACDONALD
Executive producer ALAN DOBSON
BBC Manchester

The last of 20 programmes E per finire ...
Producer MADDALENA FAGANDINI
Book E4.95, three records £3.34
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