with subtitles, followed by Weather

The last of six films about turning points in science, presented by Professor Heinz Wolff
Another Time, Another Place In 1714, a prize of E20,000 was offered for a method by which sailors could find their position at sea. That's El million by today's standards, and this famous race for time was won by Yorkshireman JOHNHARRISON. Film editor MIKE GOLDSMITH Directed by ROBIN MUDGE

A series in nine parts
Episode 8 by DAVID ANGUS
Al spots the missing car and a chase ensues, while Tucker gets the run around from
Natalia and the grant office.
Title music by ALAN HAWKSHAW Produced and directed by DARROL BLAKE

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been a spaceship? Was Jesus Christ really an extraterrestrial called Sananda? Aurora and Michael El Legion say so. They say they are 'starpersons' who have been reincarnated as volunteers to live on earth - Arizona to be exact.
Tonight they are Open to Question by young people from all over Britain.
According to the El Legions , the American government has been transporting people to Mars for years because of the threat of nuclear war. And as that war threat deepens, the Galactic
Confederation are planning to evacuate the whole of earth very soon ...
Presented by John Nicolson Research POLLY Phillips Director JUSTIN C. ADAMS Producers DAVID MARTIN and CHARLES NAIRN. BBC Scotland

Live in the studio, Ro Newton introduces Prefab Sprout, the Weather Prophets, and The Winterbabies, Mark Ellen is live on location at London's Marquee Club for tonight's Marillion gig. Andy Kershaw visits Bath, home town of Tears For Fears duo Roland and Curt, to talk about their recent success in Europe and America. Richard Skinner visits Los Angeles, where he chats to Pat Benatar.
The jazz/rock fusion of Stanley Clarke and George Duke from 1977 is the Hindsight offering to BBC2's Jazz Week.
Plus the charts, and the Videovote - [number removed].
Producers JOHN BURROWES and TREVOR DANN
Director DAVID G. CROFT
Editor MICHAEL APPLETON

A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir Virginia McKenna Miles Kington and Arthur Marshall Maureen Lipman
The Rev Roger Royle Referee
Robert Robinson
Devised by MARK GOODSON Directed by MICHAEL LEGGO Producer PAUL CIANI

Presented by Chris Kelly
Michael Barry Jill Goolden
The return of the Sheffield lorry driver.... Earlier in the series, John Wilcock cooked lunch for the Dorchester's maitre chef,
Anton Mosimann. Now he faces an even tougher challenge - to work as an under-chef in Mosimann's kitchens for a day. What will
Margaret Wilcock think of the results, when they're served to her in the dining-room? Also this week, with Christmas in mind, what's the best sort of turkey to buy when the choice is so wide?
And where can you find really unusual liqueurs at low prices?
Director JILL DAWSON
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE Books, The Food and Drink Cookbook £2.95; The Food
Connection £4.25; The Taste of Health £5.25; Michael Smith 's New English Cookery f4 50, from booksellers

A series by Graham Reid

A first posting to Northern Ireland is an exciting prospect for Robert, Pete and Smicks - but families and girlfriends see things differently. So, perhaps, do the boys when they get there.

The list of artists who have performed at Harlem's Apollo Theater reads like a Who's Who of black American entertainment. No black performer, from Sammy Davis Jr to Charlie Parker, could be considered a star without conquering the Apollo's tough, sophisticated audience.

Tonight and next week Arena celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo. But it is more than the story of a single venue. It is the story of Harlem itself and the struggles and triumphs of black America.

Tonight's programme begins with the Apollo's infancy, when Bill (Bojangles) Robinson tapped effortlessly to the music of Fats Waller, and royalty like Count Basie and Duke Ellington held court. Honi Coles and the Copasetics, and former chorus girls the Swinging Seniors, re-create the famous dance routines, and Lionel Hampton recalls when the audience went so wild, the upper balcony cracked.

After the war, bebop changed the face of jazz. The anarchy of the Dizzy Gillespie Band mirrored the social changes taking place outside the Apollo's doors, and the theatre shook, rattled and rolled to the R&B pioneers like Louis Jordan and Joe Turner.

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