A See-Saw programme (R)

Hiawatha
A scene from a longer ballet performed by Michelle Kocsis and Clifton Bryan of Harehills Middle School, Leeds. (R)

5: Regional Carols Presented by Sir Geraint Evans with William Byrd Choir and Holman Climax Choir.
Why does the Grey Mary return each year? And who really went a-wassailing? Sir Geraint Evans looks at the local carol customs which have survived down the centuries.
Today's carols: Now the Holly Bears a Berry; Here We Come A-Wassailing; Lo, He Comes an Infant Stranger; The Mari Lwyd Ceremony Song; The Drayton Wassail. Producer CHRIS HUNT BBC Bristol (R)

Weather followed by Sport on Friday
Introduced by David Icke and featuring
Olympia Horse Show
Christmas can't be very far away now! The usual fun and games from this popular show, including the Cognac Courvoisier Power Speed - a battle against the fences and then the clock - and the Pony Club Games, a special Olympic challenge.
Golf
The women's game has never been more popular and 1988 has provided plenty of excitement - a good time to look back at the highlights of the European Women's Tour.
And there's a final chance for you to request your favourite sporting moments from 1988, which will be featured next week. Write to:
Sport on Friday Christmas Show BBCtv, London W12 8QT Television presentation Olympia
WENDY SHEPPARD GolfTWi
Producer MARK SCHOFIELD including at
3.00pm News and Weather
3.50-4.00pm
News and Weather
Regional News and Weather

Anagram: a sole pursuit.
Clue: Scientist. (Answer in today's programme!)

Phil Drabble in conversation with the late Roy Plomley.
Roy visits the estate of naturalist and writer
Phil Drabble - 90 acres devoted to the preservation of wildlife. Producer MICHAEL KERR (R)

Presented by Sue Robinson. Town and country is the theme this week.
Lynne Curran lives and works in the dales of Northumbria, weaving images from real life and fantasy into figurative tapestries charged with personal significance.
In contrast to this intimate reflection of country life
Lois Walpole makes baskets from materials gathered in the city streets. She weaves together cardboard boxes, packing tape and plastic bottles to produce 'urban' baskets, bright in colour and adventurous in form.
In the studio workshop, there's basket weaving of a more traditional nature; a porcelain doll in the making; and a bookbinding project. Designer MAY EAKIN
Studio director KRISTIN MASON Producer MARY SPRENT
Series producer DICK FOSTER (R)

- starring
Ted Ray with Jean Kent
Leslie Phillips Joan Sims.
Teenager Jo Halliday becomes increasingly irritated by her pompous father, continually extolling the virtues of his 'super-efficient' secretary, Millicent. Jo decides to write a luridly sensational novel - Naked Revolt - featuring the thinly-veiled portraits of the Halliday family and their neighbours in decidedly unseemly goings-on. Screenplay by NORMAN HUDIS
From the play Book of the Month by BASIL THOMAS
Produced by PETER ROGERS
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An RKO film

[Starring] Phil Silvers as Sgt Bilko

Bilko has a plan to turn Fort Baxter into a boys' camp, but the best laid plans... (R)

Rising Concern
Few people in the south east realise the risks they face from flooding. The Thames Barrier will hopefully keep the North Sea at bay - but it is water from the Thames itself that is worrying experts. They say that it is only a matter of time before a flood similar to that of 1947 strikes the region again, and when it does the consequences will be far worse because of vast housing development since the last war. Penny Bustin reveals controversial plans for flood alleviation in the Thames Valley and talks to people who have witnessed the horrors of flooding at first hand.
Producer MICHAEL DAVIDSON Series producer PETER LOWE Editor COLIN STANBRIDGE
(Regional programme - for variations see below)

Introduced by Peter Seabrook
Alan Titchmarsh
Moira Stuart , Roy Lancaster. What better on a cold winter's night than to remember the splendour of the Chelsea Flower Show. Staged on the Thames
Embankment and in the grounds of the Royal
Hospital, Chelsea, the Royal Horticultural Society's annual spring show is the greatest on earth.
Directors PHIL FRANKLIN
MARK KERSHAW. NICK PATTEN KATHERINE LAPWORTH
Producer DENIS W. GARTSIDE BBC Pebble Mill

Introduced by Jonathan King. Acapulco America's playground in Mexico, Acapulco is set in a spectacular bay with wonderful surf and beaches. JK meets one of the famous divers who make a daily dangerous dive 120ft from the top of the cliffs into the surging sea. He talks to David Lee Roth and bumps into a donkey who likes a cold beer. Film cameraman MIKE RADFORD Film sound SIMON WILSON Film editor NINA TIMPERI
Videotape editor ROGER MARTIN Produced and directed by GORDON ELSBURY

From Dundalk to Dungannon, Ballycastle to Belfast, Field Day, Ireland's foremost touring theatre company, journeys past checkpoints and critics with Brian Friel's controversial new play Making History. Arena follows the trail of actor Stephen Rea and fellow Field Day directors, Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin, on a personal mission to investigate the distortion of Ireland's history by the work of poets, priests and politicians.

Peter Snow and Donald MacCormick with the day's top stories and the background on events making the news at home and abroad.
Reporters NICK CLARKE DAVID COSS. GAVIN ESLER
OLENKA FRENKIEL
MARGARET GILMORE
JAMES HOGG. WESLEY KERR
CHRIS LOWE. PETER MARSHALL
JULIAN HALLORAN
DAVID SELLS. FRANCINE STOCK
DAVID TINDALL
JANET TREWIN
CHARLES WHEELER Producers
JONATHAN BARTON KEITH BOWERS
EILEEN FITT. FIONA MURCH
Deputy editor MIKE ROBINSON JOHN MORRISON

A series of discussion programmes, in which two or three well-known people gather around a table to dispense wit, wisdom and ideas.
Director PIETER MORPURGO Producer ELAINE BEDELL

Film critic
Judith Williamson introduces a classic film noir. Tonight starring Robert Mitchum
Jane Greer
Kirk Douglas.
The film which made a star of Robert Mitchum , who plays an ex-private detective turned garage owner hired to find the girlfriend of an old gambling associate. His journey takes him down to Acapulco, where he finds himself falling in love with the dangerous lady in question. The brilliant dialogue, fine central performance and rich visual style have long established the movie as the masterwork of director Jacques Tourneur.
Screenplay by GEOFFREY HOMES based on his novel Build My Gallows High
Produced by WARREN DUFF
Directed by JACQUES TOURNEUR
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