9.15 Job Bank: Town Hall - Technical Services
A trip on to a wharf, down a sewer and into an ice cream factory with three young council employees.

9.38 Going to Work: Happy in your Job?
(R)

10.0 You and Me: Humpty Dumpty
A series for 4- and 5-year-olds
Roy Hudd has some fun at a tea party with Jessica, Victoria and Richard.
(R)

10.15 Music Time: A Christmas Story: A Gift for the Baby
The children perform a new Christmas musical which tells the story of a shepherd girl who discovers that she's the only one who hasn't brought a gift. Presenters Jonathan Cohen and Helen Speirs with children from Wallace Fields Middle School and Heathbrook Primary School.
(R)

10.38 History File: The Third World
The programme describes some aspects of the history of the Third World, which contains a variety of countries whose problems are often worldwide.
Written by Guy Arnold

11.0 Zig Zag: DIY Animation
What's the connection between sparklers and making your own cartoon? Paul Coia
and Sheelagh Gilbey show how to DIY in the world of animation.

11.22 Thinkabout: In the Mirror
Frank and Sally go looking for reflections with some surprising results. There's a story about a rain puddle and a new song: 'Who's that in there?'
(R)

11.40 General Studies: Romantic Fiction
How do we account for the popularity of romantic fiction with women? Is it a harmless form of escapism, or can it be addictive and produce a distorted view of love, as some feminists believe?

12.10 pm Pages from Ceefax

12.40 Technical Studies: 10: Heat Treatment
(R)

1.5-1.30 Primary Science: 3
Concluding with a review of some news from the world of astronomy and a look at how one school used a visit to the Thames Barrier as the basis for a range of science-based activities.
A BBC/Open University production

1.38 Casebook Scotland: 10: Get off my Back
A play by Stuart Paterson which asks a few questions about teenage relationships.

2.0 Words and Pictures: Sam's Christmas Tree
'Christmas without a tree isn't Christmas', thinks Sam.
(R)

2.18 The Bible Lands: 5: Masada
The palace fortress of Masada must be one of the most impregnable fortresses in the world. In AD66, the Jews rose in revolt against the Romans. The Roman legions recovered the country and, in AD70, destroyed Jerusalem. Masada, occupied by the Zealots, was the last place to hold out...

2.40 Childcare and Parenthood: 5: The Child and Other People
The last programme in this series looks at ways of preparing children for new experiences outside the home.
(R)

with subtitles; Weather

A look at new developments in information technology. Boston, Massachusetts has the only museum in the world in which all the exhibits are less than 40 years old. American reporter Freff visits the Computer Museum and discovers a very important teapot...
Also from Boston, there's a behind-the-scenes look at computer games company Infocom, the people who invented Interactive Fiction.
And, in the studio, Fred Harris will be reviewing Commodore's new micro, the AMIGA, and Lesley Judd talks to John Coll about stops, starts and parity bits.

concluding a season of films featuring SIR
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 'S famous detective, starring
On the London to Edinburgh express the fabulous Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen and the son of its owner murdered. Holmes, hired to safeguard the jewel, is faced with several likely suspects, among them, a cold-blooded criminal who will stop at nothing to ensure success.
Screenplay by FRANK GRUBER
Produced and directed by ROY WILLIAM NEILL
0 IN THE PICTURE: page 26

Equilibrium
Video, BBC Children's Favourites
BBCV/B 9000. a selection of charming cartoons for children, from retailers

A Whistle Test report on Bruce Springsteen
'Bruce thinks that if he loses his music he ain't gonna have nothing, and he wouldn't have had, if he never had his music, and he knows that, and he really enjoys to play, and it's fun to watch somebody that loves it.'
With the exception of 'Live
Aid' undoubtedly the UK rock event of 1985 was a Bruce Springsteen tour.
Everywhere he went, he sold out massive open-air concerts, with people travelling the length and breadth of the country in search of tickets. For a time it seemed that everyone had been gripped by Springsteen fever. On 15 September 1984, in the middle of his American tour, David Hepworth caught up with Bruce at the Spectrum in Philadelphia and persuaded the 'Boss' to give one of his very rare interviews.
Film editor JURIS EKSTS
Director MICHAEL APPLETON (R)

The last in the 13-part series of a view of world history by JOHN ROBERTS Capitulations
John Roberts sums up and considers the nature of the West's final 'triumph'. Is the day of the West done? The
20th-century has seen a great rejection of western ways and values - a fighting back - particularly in the Islamic world. But before Khomeni and Gadaffi, Islamic rulers like Ataturk in Turkey looked to the West for guidance and inspiration. And today countries like Oman, which have recently emerged from almost medieval isolation are forced to make choices. Oman is determined to remain
Islamic but hospitals, schools, television, technology and a new university carry with them the inevitable challenge of western civilisation.
Sound recordist DOUG MAWSON
Film cameraman MARTIN PATMORE Film editor STEPHEN EVANS Executive producer
CHRISTOPHER MARTTN
Producer DENIS MORIARTY

by David Nobbs
Starring Leonard Rossiter as Reginald Perrin and Pauline Yates as Elizabeth Perrin
with John Barron as C.J.

Reggie's revolt against the normality of his life is becoming brazen. When he gives a dinner party, he doesn't even attempt to conceal its oddity from C.J.
(R)

Reggie's revolt against the normality of his life is becoming brazen. While Elizabeth is away, he gives a dinner party without any food.

An original screenplay in six parts by TROY KENNEDY MARTIN starring
5: Northmoor
"Three men coming in - the same way as last time.' Craven and Jedburgh's desperate mission, to breach the underworld nuclear facility with a deadly secret, with Godbolt's help. But somebody knows their plan, and as Emma and GALA found out, drastic deterrents await unwanted visitors.
Music by ERIC CLAPTON with MICHAEL KAMEN Film editor DAN RAE
Dubbing mixer ROB JAMES Designer GRAEME THOMSON PhotographyANDREW DUNN
Produced by MICHAEL WEARING Directed by MARTIN CAMPBELL * CEEFAX SUBTITLES

1980s thriller series. Craven and Jedburgh follow the fateful route of the Gaia raid on Northmoor, but someone knows they are coming, and drastic deterrents await them. Show more

Where the public sets the agenda
Sorry Love, It's Domestic
That's the apology that many policemen make to battered women as they walk away from a domestic dispute, without helping. For women like Christine, Linda and Susan it's a frustrating and painful reminder that society is not treating the violence they suffer as a crime. Since a government enquiry ten years ago it should have become easier to get the protection and support of the law, or to escape and set up a new home. But, as Linda says, most of the measures introduced as a result 'are not worth the paper they are written on'. Alarmingly, the only organisation that is providing advice and shelter, Women's Aid, is facing a funding crisis.
Narrated by Frances Tomelty Film editor JIM DUFFY
Executive producer TONY LARYEA Director CLARE RILEY Made by the COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT see CEEFAX page 189 for Women's Aid contact numbers
0 INFO: page 93

John Tusa , Peter Snow Donald MacCormick and Olivia O'Leary with Jenni Murray and Ian Smith

A series of 26 programmes

See the news as others see it, and brush up your French at the same time. Tonight's bulletin comes from Television Francaise Un and there's also a round-up of today's main stories around Europe. Presented by Chantal Cuer
(to 0.15)