Parliamentary update.
While her husband is serving in the US
Army, Jo rents a house with three friends. With Ginger Rogers and Robert Ryan.
Director Edward Dmytryk ● FILMS: pages 49-56
In this Civil War western,
Captain Alan Westcott attempts to persuade a Confederate raider to destroy a Union arsenal. With
Steve Cochran and Diane Brewster.
Director Edward Bernds ● FILMS: pages 49-56
And When Did You Last See Your Father by W F Yeames.
Life in a replica of a prehistoric Iron Age settlement. Learning to be self-sufficient. (Revised rpt)
How poor Brazilians were tempted to a new future in Amazonia in the 1970s. • TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888
Animation.
With Peter Alliss.
Followed by Look Stranger
Profile of a beekeeper.
Followed by Westminster Live
3.50pm News; Weather and Regional News; Weather
Hosted by Paul Coia.
One of the world's finest miniature houses designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
With Robert Robinson and Loyd Grossman.
Sixth of eight programmes.
Harry Dodson makes up a bowl of old roses, and a cascade of fuchsias and passion flowers. ● STEREO
TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 ● GARDENING: page 16
Starring Steve McQueen
American racing driver Michael Delaney and his chief rival Erich Stahler are both determined to win the gruelling 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans no matter what the cost.
Director Lee H Katzin
0 TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888 0 FILMS: pages 49-56
For years the Unita rebels in Angola have been the subject of extraordinary accusations. Their leader, Jonas Savimbi , was variously described as a Maoist, Stalinist, and a puppet of apartheid, his army branded as bandits and torturers. But after 16 years of civil war against Angola's Marxist government, Unita stands on the brink of power.
Nick Downie investigates whether the accusations against them are true or just propaganda.
As Dirty Den in EastEnders, Leslie Grantham was the nation's most infamous pub landlord. As a wine buff, he is tonight's guest taster, making a selection from reds and whites, all under E5, to go with the Christmas dinner. And there is also some Oriental inspiration for spicing up the turkey.
Producers Alison Field and Tim Hincks A Bazal production for BBCtv Details on Ceefax page 616
* STEREO
0 RECIPES: available in BBC Good Food
Magazine, £1.10, from newsagents. 0 FOOD: page 18
Offbeat American sci-fi series.
Starring Scott Bakula Dean Stockwell
Jimmy. 14 October 1964: Sam enters the life of a young man with Down's Syndrome.
● STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888
A four-part documentary series about the effect of class on British political life since the War. With Michael Cockerell.
Harold Wilson pledged to break up "the old boy network where blue blood takes precedence over good brains". But he eventually fell out with the people whose class interests he was supposed to represent.
The growth of workers' power helped bring the successive downfall of the Wilson, Heath and Callaghan governments.
(Stereo)
With Jeremy Paxman.
The third of Krzysztof Kieslowski 's series of modern dramas from Poland.
The sins of the past threaten a man's future. Janusz plays
Santa Claus for his children but when he sees a former mistress at Midnight Mass his plans for a conventional family Christmas go awry. In Polish with English subtitles.
