A See-Saw programme (R)

Fond memories from the men who have sailed the 83-year-old Thames Spritsail barge
Vigilant - once the fastest of her breed, and still racing. Film editor MIKE STOKES Written and produced by BRIAN FAWCETT

The 106th Varsity Match Oxford University v
Cambridge University for the Bowring Bowl Introduced by NIGEL STARMER. SMITH with BOB HILLER and IAN ROBERTSON.
Oxford look for a hat-trick of victories this year. With many of last year's Blues in residence and strengthened by a number of first-class
Players arriving, they start as favourites.
Producer HUW JONES including at
2.45* News and Weather

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
DAVID ICKE brings news of the first of the last two matches of the first round being played today. This afternoon at the Bournemouth
Conference Centre, Australia meet England.
Australia are represented by IAN SCHUBACK and JIM YATES , with England selecting
GERRY SMYTH and STEVE HALMAJ. Commentators
DAVID RHYS JONES
JIMMY DAVIDSON Summarisers
MAL HUGHES , DAVID MCGILL

Regional News and Weather

Desmond Lynam takes pleasure in inviting his guests to unlock the film and video vaults with their personal memories of past television moments. Today's guest is Sandie Shaw.
Producer PHIL CHILVERS

Midland Bank World Indoor Pairs Championship
Further coverage from the Bournemouth Conference
Centre of the seventh match of the first round.
Introduced by DAVID ICKE Television presentation KEITH MACKENZIE and PETER HAYWARD
Executive producer LAN EDWARDS Producer KEITH PHILUPS

Barry Norman presents his personal review of the week's cinema releases. The films highlighted include The Dead and Little Dorrit.

HMS 'Ariadne'
Tonight Britannia waives the rules by piping the world's fastest rock show on board a Royal Navy frigate, HMS Ariadne. While presenters Jenny Powell and Tony Baker focus on the UK and US charts, Captain McAnally and his crew consult charts of a maritime nature. As well as highlights from the last six shows, guaranteed to raise the ratings among the ratings, there are enough powerplays to keep the ship rocking harder than force ten on the Beaufort scale.
Associate producer JONATHAN KING Production PETER HAMILTON BBC North West

/ think someone is as likely to want to bludgeon someone to death after reading one of my books as he is after reading 'Winnie the Pooh Clive Barker has been called the 'future of horror'. At 34, he is a millionaire writer and movie-maker through
Books of Blood and Hellraiser. Tonight, an audience of young people ask whether his macabre creations are legitimate entertainment or malign influences.
Presented by John Nicholson Researcher MARK HAGEN
Director DENNIS COSGROVE Producer STEWART LAMONT BBC Scotland

Last of eight programmes on making music in a rock band. Song Structure and Arrangement
Comments from
Omar Hakim , Selwyn Brown
Midge Ure
Tony Binks and the Communards.
Deirdre Cartwright (guitar) Alastair Gavin (keyboards) Geoff Nicholls (drums) and Henry Thomas (bass) are joined by guest vocalist
Juliet Roberts to look at the basic framework of pop and bass parts; call and response between different instruments; complementing and accompanying the vocals; using different keys for different moods; and how to develop a melody.
Videotape editor MALCOLM BANTHORPE Production assistant
ADELE RAWNSLEY
Produced by CHRIS LENT (e)

Presented by Chris Kelly Michael Barry and Jill Goolden
Food news, challenges, investigations, tests, tastings and, of course, the craftiest of cooking. Tonight's show offers a cunning menu of clever alternatives for
Christmas. For the main course, instead of turkey, why not roast a goose with delicious stuffing and apple sauce? And for a change from Christmas pudding, what about plum duff, the exclusive recipe of Sherlock Holmes ' housekeeper. To wash it all down, why not try a traditional British drink? The Food and Drink team organise a tasting of apple wines. 'Tis the season for giving, and many people are thinking of a microwave oven as a present. Discover why people who swear by them say, 'I love my microwave'.
Director JEREMY MILLS
Producer PETER BAZALGETTE
For factsheet,send a 6Op cheque or PO (made payable to BSS) to: [address removed]
Book, 'The Third Food and Drink
Book', by Michael Barry , Chris Kelly and Jill Goolden , £4.95 from booksellers
0 RECIPE TIMES: page 94

Safe and Sorry?
Each year 30,000 children are taken from their parents into local authority care. Last week Brass Tacks looked at the cases of two families, accused of abusing their children, who fought to establish their innocence.
In this climate of increased concern about child abuse, are the right decisions being made, or are authorities, anxious to avoid public scandal, trampling on the rights of the innocent in order to be safe rather than sorry? Tonight
John Harrison asks Brass Tacks viewers and professionals involved with child care how best to deal with the problem of child abuse and what role social workers should play. Researcher SUSIE TAYLOR Producer STEVE HEWLETT
Brass Tacks editor COLIN CAMERON BBC North West

New York
Everyone always thinks of New York as Manhattan, but Manhattan is only the island in the middle. Jonathan King visits New Jersey, looks at Meadowlands Arena and Asbury Park, the home of Bruce Springsteen , then pops over to Long Island to visit the resort areas of New York. He also looks at MTV, meeting DJs with funny names: Dweezil Zappa
China Kantner and English ex-disco dancer Julie Brown. Film cameraman MIKE RADFORD Film sound SIMON WILSON Film editor LIZ TENNENT
Videotape editor ROGER MARTIN Produced and directed by GORDON ELSBURY

Valley of the Kilns
(Reginald Le May 1885-1972) Presented by David Drew
Reginald Le May had many memories to console him in his retirement in Tunbridge Wells in the 1960s. Foremost among them was a pioneering journey he had made in 1924 to one of the most magical ancient sites in the Far East - Si Satchanalai , buried in the forests of northern Thailand. Little known even today, it is a city of ruined temples and elegant spires, of giant figures of the Buddha, and the site of hundreds of ancient pottery kilns. It inspired Le May, who became the first man to open the eyes of the west to the wonders of ancient
Thailand.
From Bangkok, David Drew traces Le May's arduous and eccentric journey by train, bicycle and elephant. The trail leads on to the present day, to the work of modern archaeologists and to ancient shipwrecks off Thailand's coast.
Photography PETER DE VRIES Series editor BRUCE NORMAN Producer BRIAN ADAMS
Book, 'Footsteps by Bruce Norman , E14.95 from booksellers
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Midland Bank World Indoor
Pairs Championship
In the final match of the first round, Scotland confronts Wales. The Welsh pair,
STEPHEN REES and JOHN PRICE, are favourites against the Scots' pair Of JOHN SUMMERS and WILLIE SULLIVAN.
Introduced by DAVID ICKE. Commentators DAVID RHYS JONES and JIMMY DAVIDSON Summarisers MAL HUGHES and DAVID MCGILL

The last word on world events analysed by Peter Snow
Donald MacCormick and Adam Raphael

with Chantal Cuer
Catch up with the francophone week through the eyes of RTBF and the Belgian papers; encounter another 'Striptease'; and hear the results of the Telejournal anniversary Alexandrine competition.
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