An update on the latest Parliamentary debates and issues.

9.00 Quinze Minutes: Visites en France
French series for beginners

9.15 Teaching Today - Primary Technology
Technology encompasses many everyday activities.

9.45 Watch: Food - Celebration food

10.00 Look and Read: Through the Dragon's Eye - The Final Page
Last in the fantasy drama series.

10.20 Around Scotland: Religious Education - Pilgrimage, a Journey

10.40 Into Music: Performance - Christmas Concert
With a Caribbean flavour. (Stereo)

11.00 Let's See: Christmas - A Christmas Story

11.15 English Express: Who, Me? - Best Friends

11.35 TV6: Horizon - Emerging Viruses: Part II
What causes lethal viruses such as HIV to appear suddenly?

12.00 English File: Analysing Language - The Heart of the Language

12.30 Scene - Tell Them the Truth

1.00 Standard Grade English - Language and Place

1.20 The Brollys

1.35 Crystal Tipps and Alistair

1.40 English Time: Writing - Media Messages
How to write for television.

2.00 News and Weather
followed by Words and Pictures - Come to the Show

With Helen Rollason.
Snooker
Live coverage of the UK
Championship from the Guild Hall, Preston. This afternoon sees the first eight frames of both best-of-17 semi-finals.
Football
Action from the first legs of this week's Uefa Cup third round matches.
ProducerMarkWilkin Editor Philip Bernie
Including at
3.00pm News; Weather
3.50pm News; Weather and Regional News; Weather

A celebration of the life and achievements of the actress, who died earlier this year. Sarah Dunant introduces highlights from this morning's Service of Thanksgiving at
Westminster Abbey, and reflects on Dame Peggy's career. * STEREO

The Edge of Impact. A new jet crashes in tests.
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Festive cooking in six parts. Producer Jayne Owens
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An actor's guide to acting.
1: Actorship. Another chance to see Nigel Planer as classical actor Nicholas Craig. Director Charles Miller
Producer Caroline Wright

This week's press.
A Granada production for BBCtv

"As President of the British
Refugee Council.... I am very worried that we may be helping to make more, not less, prisoners of conscience by not being able to accept refugees.... If one can help to personalise these stories maybe the audience will realise what is going on out there," says conductor Simon Rattle.

A Betrayal of Trust
There is growing evidence that people with mental handicaps are particularly at risk of sexual abuse. But they may not be believed if they try to get their cases to heard in court Jenny Cuffe reports.
Producer Francesca O'Brien
Editor Nigel Chapman

Roger Tabor 'sfive-part series. 3:Pet or Pest. As the British
Empire expanded, so too did the world's cat population. Producer Sally Wilson
Series producer Dick Meadows 0 NATURE: page 10

Last in the comedy series. The Glorious Triumph of Barthelemy Piechut. A head-on fight is sparked off between the villagers and the army. Producer Michael Mills

Those Red Cars. The story of the brilliant red cars of Italy - so elegant to look at, so easy to drive - which dominated grand-prix racing after the Second World War, featuring, in particular, the great classic of its time, the Maserati 250F. Producer John Bird
Executive producer Ivan Rendall A John Gau production forBBCtv e STEREO
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News quiz with Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop and Paul Merton.

A Hat Trick production for BBCtv
(Stereo)

With Peter Snow.

Select committee reports.
Producer Jenny Davies ; Editor Liz Holden

Helena Kennedy , QC, tells the second of tonight's stories. (Prisoners of Conscience returns next Monday, with Felicity Kendal)

More late-night shockers.
11.55pm* The Night Stalker Firefall. Three associates of conductor Ryder Bond are mysteriously burned to ashes.
12.45am*
The Saga of the Clay People A strange tale from France.
1.00am* The Undead
A prostitute is placed under hypnosis and transported to medieval times.
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* Approximate time