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Charlotte Uhlenbroek discovers the rugged beauty of the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands and introduces a seasonal selection of clips from wildlife programmes featuring animals that inhabit some of the most inhospitable locations on the planet.

Contributors

Presenter:
Charlotte Uhlenbroek

A double bill of animated comedy.

12.30 Flaming Moe's
A drink concocted by Homer is a huge hit at Moe's tavern.

12.50 Colonel Homer
Homer acts as promoter for a talented singing waitress.
(Repeat)

Videoplus code for 12.30-12.50pm.... Code for 12.50-1.15pm Code for 12.30-1.15pm (not PDC)

The first two episodes of a new animation.

1.15 Holiday in Vince
Rex and his canine friends decide that they need a holiday.

At 1.25 Stinky's Search for a Star
The dogs form a band to enter a talent contest.

(Repeat) (Digital widescreen)

Videoplus code for 1.15-1.25pm Code for 1.25-1.35pm Code for 1.15-1.35pm (not PDC)

Continuing the season of westerns. Starring John Wayne

Cole Thornton rides into El Dorado to find his old friend is the town's sheriff. Cole leaves when he learns he has been hired to run people off their land, but returns to find the sheriff in a bad way. As Cole has a bad arm, the two seem doomed against a cattle baron's gunfighters.
(1967, PG)
(She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is tomorrow 4.20pm)
See Films: pages 43-79 *****

Contributors

Director:
Howard Hawks
Cole Thornton:
John Wayne
JP Harrah:
Robert Mitchum
Mississippi:
James Caan
Maudie:
Charlene Holt
Joey MacDonald:
Michele Carey
Bull Harris:
Arthur Hunnicutt
Bart Jason:
Edward Asner

Jake wants to bid for a prized baseball card in an auction. But, as the Federation has abolished money, Jake pursues an unusual deal.
(The Next Generation is tomorrow at 6.35pm)

Contributors

Capt Benjamin Sisko:
Avery Brooks
Odo:
Rene Auberjonois
Lt Cmdr Worf:
Michael Dorn
Lt Cmdr Jadzia Dax:
Terry Farrell
Jake Sisko:
Cirroc Lofton
Chief Operations Officer Miles O'Brien:
Colm Meaney
Quark:
Armin Shimerman
Nog:
Aron Eisenberg

Concluding the two-part animated version of Geoffrey Chaucer's epic narrative poem.
On their continuing trek to Canterbury, the pilgrims tell three more stories - those of the Merchant, the Pardoner and the Franklin.
(A Middle English version, The Tales of Caunterbury, is tomorrow at 12 noon)

Contributors

Author:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Director (The Merchant's Tale):
Valen Ugarov
Director (The Pardoner's Tale):
Sergei Olifirenko
Director (The Franklin's Tale):
Damian Gascoigne

Guest chefs Greg and Max make easy party finger food, Antony Worrall Thompson prepares a Christmas dish forvegetariansa Mediterranean vegetable koulibiac-andJillyGoolden joins Oz Clarke to sample the best Christmas wines priced under £12. With Chris Kelly. Series producer Elaine Bancroft Executive producerTim Hincks
Digital widescreen CEEFAX: page
E-MAIL: Food&Drink@Bazal.com
WEBSITE: www.bbc.co.uk/foodanddrink

Contributors

Unknown:
Antony Worrall Thompson
Unknown:
Oz Clarke
Unknown:
Chris Kelly.
Producer:
Elaine Bancroft

After receiving an invitation from a Jamaican polo team, Jennifer Paterson and Clarissa Dickson arrive at the plantation house Good Hope to prepare a festive feast.
See today's choices.
(Digital widescreen)
See Factual: page 8

Contributors

Presenter/Cook:
Jennifer Paterson
Presenter/Cook:
Clarissa Dickson
Series Director/Producer:
Patricia Llewellyn

There are more than 350,000 Aga owners in Britain. This documentary explores the British middle class's passion for this most eccentric of ovens and finds that many of them are obsessed with their culinary status symbol.
See today's choices.
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Producer:
Jane Treays
Executive Producer:
Sam Organ

Last in an eight-part drama about life in a gospel church community in the north of England.

Andrew learns that Lindsay was raped and takes matters into his own hands.
Episode written by Amma Asante
(Digital widescreen)

Contributors

Writer:
Amma Asante
Producer:
Charlie Hanson
Director:
Blake Bedford
Pastor Gittens:
Joseph Marcell
Sister Gittens:
Dona Croll
Melanie:
Mona Hammond
Brother Leonard:
Jeffery Kissoon
Siobhan:
Suzanne Packer
Pearl:
Patti Boulaye
Andrew:
Stephen Graham
Lindsay:
Lynsey France
Aquilla:
Marcia Rose
Christopher:
Mark Arden

Adventure, showing in a short season of films directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Starring Toshiro Mifune
In medieval Japan, Lady Yukihime, heiress to the defeated Akizuki family, goes into hiding, taking with her the family's treasures. Two samurai find the gold, but are then pursued by a royal bodyguard. In Japanese with English subtitles. Widescreen.
(1958. PG) Blackandwhite . Seven Samurai is tomorrow at 11.15pm
♦ See Films: pp 43-79 *****
Followed by Weatherview

Contributors

Directed By:
Akira Kurosawa.
Unknown:
Toshiro Mifune

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