With signing

Fighting a forest fire.

Cartoon capers. (Rpt) (Subtitled)

Shown last Friday. (Stereo)

(Shown yesterday at 6.25pm on BBC1)

First in a two-part documentary looking at minority groups living in regions of China previously inaccessible to foreigners.
Part 2 tomorrow at 9.00am

Pathe news from 1955.
(B/W)

(Stereo)

Comedy, the first of three films directed by Frank Capra.
Starring Warren William, May Robson

A gangster tries to transform a fruit pedlar into a wealthy socialite for a day.
(1933) (B/W)
See Films: pages 49-72
Mr Smith Goes to Washington: tomorrow at 10.25am

Self-catering on Spain's Costa Blanca.

(RT Travel Store: for details see tomorrow at 7.00pm on BBC1)

Documentary on the life and work of Australian-born composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, known as PGH.

Cartoon. (Rpt) (Stereo)

From the Grand Hall at London's Olympia. Highlights of the pre-Christmas show, including the World Cup qualifier.

Family drama starring Charles Bronson, Richard Thomas

1897: when eight-year-old Virginia writes to the New York Sun asking if there really is a Santa Claus, cynical journalist Francis P Church is asked to reply.
(1991) (Stereo) (Subtitled)
See Films: pages 49-72

Including at 3.00 News; Regional News and Weather

(Subtitled)
Regional News and Weather

Nostalgia quiz, with Martyn Lewis.

Cookery game show.
(Stereo)

Esther Rantzen on workaholics.
(Stereo)

The antiques auction game in which amateur collectors try to tell the genuine from the fake. Presented by Andy Craig, with regular panellists Jilly Goolden and Eric Knowles.

Fredo's daughter is struggling with her telekinesis exercises and starts having terrible nightmares about a serial killer. Is she simply overwrought, or is she witnessing crimes by telepathy?
(The next episode is on Christmas Eve at 5.30pm)

Pop band Pulp have been making music since the early eighties, but they had to wait until 1995 before achieving idol status with their hit album Common People.
Tonight's documentary follows the band on tour around Britain over a period of three weeks, culminating in their triumphant homecoming to Sheffield City Hall, and shows them dealing with stardom with a mixture of bewilderment and style.

See today's choices.
(An extended, late-night version of this programme can be seen on Friday 22 December at 1.10am)
(Stereo)

No Sleep till Sheffield - Pulp Go Public
6.45pm BBC2
Throughout the eighties and half of the nineties, Pulp were a second division band of indie also-rans, doomed, it seemed, for obscurity. This year has changed all that with two number one singles and a number one album, and has seen singer Jarvis Cocker's emergence as a media superstar.
Tonight's film catches the band in mid-tour, musing on sex, stardom and life in hotel rooms. "I now have an opportunity to make a lot of money," says the charismatic Cocker. "I could present some game show and turn into Tarby 2. There's a great deal of potential for me to become the saddest person of 1996. Nobody is immune."

Who is likely to fill the coveted Christmas number one spot on the pop singles chart? Jane Middlemiss and Jamie Theakston assess the betting.
(Repeated on Christmas Eve at 1.45pm)

Ruth Mott prepares some seasonal recipes for the Christmas table, including chocolate and chestnut pudding, crunchy cheese celeriac, stuffed turkey legs and pork with prunes in red wine. She also reveals the secret of making spiced beef, and shares in the activities of her village as it prepares for a traditional Christmas.
(Repeated tomorrow at 5.30pm)

Concluding the two-part story in which Mulder and Scully investigate a confusing chain of murders.

Tonight, Scully is confronted with two Mulders and has to decide which one is real. See today's choices.

Documentary taking a look at the 25-year history of topless pin-ups on page three of British newspapers, and talking to some of the models who made their names by baring all.
See today's choices.

Presented by Peter Snow.

The Easy Riders season continues with a western directed by and starring Jack Nicholson
Also starring Mary Steenburgen

Down-at-heel outlaw Henry Lloyd Moon believes he is safe in Mexico, until he is seized by a posse. Moon is sentenced to hang, unless he can find a woman of property to marry him.
(1978)
See Films: pages 49-72
Five Easy Pieces is tomorrow at 11.20pm