PROFILE INSIDE ARTS SPORT 2-page sports There is My farewell Dame Kiri nothing like a MOMENTS OF calendar . to Channel 4 CA TASTROPHE Te Kanawa dame of the yearJ JEREMY ISAACS 6 PORTRAIT OF 1987 INTERVIEW 15 26, 27 I I BARRY HUMPHRIES 5

& A BRIEFLY SUMMIT MOVE Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze latest information, supplied to them Yemeni Embassy in London last they will be moved to a luxurious agreed to meetings with THE TWO British women sold by EILEEN MacDONALD week as brides in the Yemen Arab by The Observer , and was arranging , but was treated as a tourist house in Taiz with their husbands Us Secretary of State to interview the husbands with the HI¦Hiam ^2IIIIIQ9L i ^ H ^ i ^ B '^^ i u^^— ^ ~~~ rather than as a relative wishing to until ' all the paperwork is done.' George Shultz in Republic will not be allowed ' visit the country. On Christmas Day, The Observer home unless they are accompa- women when they arrived in the ports, which are awaiting their visit scared they are not touching us, preparation for a new city. to the British Embassy. Zana reassured her yesterday in a ' They told me to come back on informed the Foreign Office of the summit between Mikhail nied by their husbands. The young children of the When the sisters arrived in Taiz, telephone call . Tuesday with $500, three passport latest development in the women's Gorbachov and President Nadia and Zana-, Muhsen, who women — Nadia's daughter, 21- North Yemen's second city, they The official has also told Miss Ali, photographs and a return air situation. Reagan. (Battle to beat the were taken from\ their remote month-old Tina, her son Haney, were taken to the home of the who was not married to the sisters' ticket,' she said . ' When I visited We also gave the Foreign Office clock, pace 8.) mountain villages last week after four, and Zana's son, 20-month-old Yemeni Government official who father, Muthana Muhsen, that it them before I was treated as their and the British Embassy in Sana'a The Observer revealed their story, Mohammed—were left behind in had collected them. They found could take up to four weeks before mother.' the telephone number of the house MARKET BLASTS have had to accept pub\icly the men the mountain villages of Hockail that their husbands, whom they had the women can come home. The sisters have also had a where the women are staying. Three car bombs killed they were married to seven years and Ashube when their mothers not seen for- two years, had been Miss Ali, 44, said yesterday : ' He lengthy telephone call from their The Geneva-based charity, one person and injured 35 ago. , I were collected last week. recalled from Saudi Arabia, where says that everything must quieten father on Christmas Day. He Defence of Children International, in crowded markets in A Yemeni Government official Zana told The Observer yester- they had been working. down in the Press and the visas begged them not to come home has told Miss Ali it is considering Pakistan 's capital with whom they are staging in the day : ' We wanted to bring them . On Christmas Day they were granted to the husbands before the soon . Zana told her mother yester- whether any criminal charges can be Islamabad. No one city of Taiz has told them he will be but the man said, no, they provided with a flat near the girls and their children come home. day : ' He said, don't leave until all brought against the women's with us, father. Miss Ali said : ' Their claimed responsibility, but providing them with visa applica- would be collected later. official's home, where they are now ' I am so scared that it could all go the fuss has died down because Pakistan has blamed tion forms requesting that their living with their husbands. Their wrong. The girls are so far away, there would be a lot of reporters at lawyer, Geraldine Van Beurin, 'My mother-in-law is looking thinks it may be possible to ask the Afghanistan for previous husbands be allowed into Britain. after them, but the official says that mother, Miriam Ali, is desperate and living with this official. I just the airport and he would be ' lest the girls should become hope they tell him the things he ashamed. He said he would be so police to interview him about what explosions. The Foreign Office said yester- he is going to collect them today. he has done.' day that the British Embassy in the The three children have been pregnant and be forced to stay. wants to hear.' ashamed that he would kill himself .' BODY FOUND Miriam Ali : ' Still worried '. capital, Sana'a, had been told of the entered on to the women's pass- ' Don't worry, Mum, they are so Miss Ali applied for a visa at the The sisters have been told that H Dream of Freedom, page 7 Police were questioning a man after the dismembered body of Anthony Brown, 30, was found at a derelict farm NO HOSPITAL BED FOR HEARTBREAK MATTHEW near Scarcroft, Leeds. RANK OUTSIDER French horse Nupsala, a 25-1 outsider, won the £50,000 King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton (Report, page 31.) RELICS CHARGE John Braddock, 41, was remanded in custody until Tuesday accused of damaging two valuable dfe reliquaries—containers for mn^^ nsi *. religious relics—in an incident at ¦Westminster Cathedral. DOUBLE DEATH Police believe that a man strangled his wife on by ARTHUR KENT Christmas Day then hanged himself at their UP TO 250 Soviet para- their way through,' he said . home in Bridgnorth, troopers have been killed in ' Clearly they've resolved to Shropshire. Afghanistan in the past reach Khost and to hold it at ail costs .' BABY BOOM three weeks in the Red s attempt to relieve the wife of Britain s test-tube baby Army' Chris Gregory, pioneers Mr Patrick the besieged garrison at the British camerman Andy Steptoe and Professor Khost. Casualties among Skrzypkowiak, missing and Robert Edwards yesterday the Government forces are presumed dead in Afghanis- announced the birth of even higher in what has tan, said from Pakistan that their clinic's one become one of the bloodiest she was ' angered and irr- thousandth baby. battles of the war. itated ' by what she The fighting comes on the describes as Pakistan inep- COLLECTION eighth anniversary of the titude in the investigation of Eighty-seven people have Soviet invasion on Christ- the case. been charged after an mas Day, 1979. Evidence suggests that undercover police Skrzypkowiak, aged 36, was operation against thefts The Russians' determina- tion to press ahead in the The battle for Khost killed by members of an from delivery vehicles in Afghan resistance group, London in the run-up to face of such high losses This is ambush country, Hizbe Islami, which has 's is the hospital tha t figured Christmas. against the Mujahideen THIS is Matt hew Collier, a little boy needs open heart sur gery, but on walked . The hospital says it cann ot Children and the Mujahideen enjoy been accused by foreign aid in the controvers y over David guerrillas has surprised with a hole in his heart who was too Chris tinas Eve he was told for the operate because a shortage of WIN £25,000 the advantage of high workers of blocking free fifth time there was no bed available specialist nurses has halved the Barber , the baby boy who died three Western defence analysts. weak to open his Christmas presents , heart operation The Observer by in table The sacrifices made to reach ground, particularly at the transit of overland trails to in Birmingham Children 's Hospital. number of intensive care beds weeks ago after his Life Investor of the Year mouths of 12 side-valleys the north. writes Paul Routledge. Matthew is four and a half, but available to 12, only six of which are had been repeatedly postponed. Khost will almost certainly for heart patients . Birmi ngham Photograph by John Reardon . competition, with pri: e prove to be a fraction of which overlook the wind- Since 14 December, police Doctors agree he desperately weights only 261b and has never money of £25,000, is what it will take to hold the ing, heavily-mined road . in the North West Frontier launched tiexi Sunday . Soviet and Afghan com- city of Mardan have been i Details , page 29. 1 garrison. For all the men and mando units have been forced questioning four Hizbe THE WEATHER armour thrown into what into a treacherous series of members in connection with Mild ; some rain, with the analysts say is the leap-frog landings by heli- Skrzypkowiak, who disap- brighter intervals. biggest Soviet-Afghan off- copter at night to avoid anti- peared on I October while aircraft fire . Each landing has travelling through Hizbe Ex-MI6 men (Details, page 2.) ensive in two years, the Mujahideen have held the pushed the advance a few territory. assault column 's advance to hundred metres further tow- ¦ A demonstration in Mos- a crawl . ards Khost. cow yesterday by a group Helicopter-borne Soviet Held up by this bottleneck calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troups from Afgha- cleared to commandos breached the is a 10,000-man force pass at Sato Kandau last backed by the latest in nistan was broken up by week. They overran Muja- Soviet artillery, ' a vast police and security men, a hideen positions and swathe of troops and group spokesman said. allowed a handful of tanks to armour, 18 miles long ', B The Foreign Secretary, in book according to one observer Sir Geoffrey Howe, said write descend into the Zadran valley, the steep-sided 30- close to the battle. yesterday that Russia should THE GOVERNMENT has by PAUL LASHMAR tions was not granted by Mr mile-long mountain gaunt- ' If the Russians are happy withdraw its troops from allowed a book on intell- Justice Scott . But an interim s^nB^yi^m^pifli injunction was reimposed pend- piH let standing between the to accept a high number of Afghanistan and allow it to igence to be published which men had been sent to the ^^"^Throughout your ^glip'life fro m collecting your first I Foreign Office and then the ing the Government's appeal on , assault force and its dead and wounded, then form a truly independent includes chapters from two 18 January . .salary cheque to collecting your pension, your money objective . they can eventually bull government. named former MI6 officers. Cabinet Office for clearance, which was granted. Other less controversial needs careful management. This conflicts with its own books, such as ' One Girl's War ' "Arranging Your Aftairs"is a two-part booklet to stated policy, central to the The Director of the RUSI, by wartime MIS agent Joan INDEX Group-Captain David Bolton, help you plan your personal finances. It covers ' Spycatcher ' case and the Miller, have also been banned. making the most of your assets, preparing for your ¦ ¦ said he did not know if the book The Government still has an INSIDE dispu te over the BBC Radio retirement - and even arranging the protection your had been cleared. That was ' a injunction against the BBC HOME NEWS 2, 3 4 series, ' My Country — editor ' he dependants deserve. FOREIGN NEWS 8 , Charles will matter for the book , broadcasting the programme , 9 11 Right or Wrong,' that secret PROFILE 5 said. ' RUSI has had close links ' My Country — Right or Valuable information from Allied Dunbar - and POLITICAL DIARY 5 service officers are bound by Wrong ' because it contains absolutely free. And if you feel in need of personal SUE ARNOLD 6 lifelong rules of silence on interviews with former intell- financial guidance - we would be pleased to arrange a SAYINGS OF THE YEAR 6 take Ashes security matters . igence officers. personal consultation For you - again , quite free. NOTEBOOK 12 The book , ' British and Mr Lockhart 's chapter is cal- For your tree "Arranging Your Aftairs" booklets just American Approaches to Intell- led ' Intelli gence : a British complete the details below and post to: H REVIEW igence,' covers a number of View,' and is a detailed analysis of the role of British intell- Sue Hunt , Allied Dunbar Assurance pic. FR EEPOST, LETTERS 14 to Australia major secret service issues Swindon SNI1XZ (no stamp needed). , financ- igence. He says his views are ARTS 14, 15. 17 by ROBIN MEAD including covert action MORE MUSIC 17 ing and comparisons with the ' one man's thoughts, based on £9g Or phone her on 0800 010500 and quote practical experience . 'Mr Lock- tor tlie call. Its a 2-4 hour BOOKS 17, 18 The MCC agreed to send CIA.. It contains chapters writ- £ofi Dept. OBI We pay PRINCE CHARLES has hart is described as having service, ~ days a week. There is no obligation for you to TV GUIDE 20 agreed to escort the Ashes them to Australia as a gesture ten by two ex-MI6 officers, Mr Bruce served in the Foreign Office take any further action. to Australia next month of goodwill only after a Robert Cecil and Mr John from 1945-65. a business protracted debate at Lord's. Lockhart. Mr Cecil was an ass- because of fears for the Wraps off : Mr Cecil's chapter is entitled I Please send me, free and without obligation . Allied Dunbar's I YOUR MONEY 28, 29 The Australians intend to istant to Sir Stewart Menzies, ' The Assessment and Accep- I "ArrangingYourAflEairs" andlci nieh;ivt'dciailsi>fyourfree I safety of cricket's most display them during the head of MI6 from 1939-53. The Intelligence papers. ¦ consultation service. I am interested in: I ¦ ¦ tance of Intelligence : a Case SPORT famous trophy. bicentennial Test Match, book states Mr Bruce Lockhart with the Ministry of Defence for Study'. It compares intelligence • ? Protecting my income should I become unable to work • RACING 31 According to diplomatic which starts in Sydney on 29 was ' actively involved with 150 years and we would have gathering for the Falkland crisis I through illness or accident. I FOOTBALL 32 sources, the Ashes are to January . intelligence at a senior level' . D Planning for a profitable retirement. acted responsibly. ' of 1982 with the lesser Falklands ' J travel on the Royal flight Details of the Royal fli ght The book is part of a Royal crisis of 195 1 which, Mr Cecil I CJ Making adequate provision for my dependants. | B WEEKEND The book's editor , Mr Ken when the Prince and Princess are being kept secret and the United Services Institute series of the University of admits, draws on his personal WHITEHORN 33 of Wales leave to celebrate Macmillan at Robertson , I Name: (Mr Mrs Ms) Initials: I MCC has refused to comment published by was unavailable for Foreign Office experience. TIME OFF 37 Australia's bicentenary . until the Ashes are safely on £29.50. It is a collection of papers Reading, : Ashes : Lord' s treasure. comment. H Mrs Thatcher was challenged I Address: I MOTORING 38 They will be carried by a Australian soil. first given by leading intelligence ! last night to prosecute a former PROPERTY 39 senior diplomat under a The Ashes commemorate England, led by the Hon. Ivo experts at an Anglo-American The Government now gener- MI6 officer who is reported to ally prevents the publication of GARDENING 40 degree of security more the first defeat of England by Bligh, won the Test series, conference on intelligence held "have published his memoirs I "^sh Postcode:-- ' some Melbourne women bur- or even interviews by CROSSWORD 40 appropriate to the Crown Australia at the Oval in 1882 . by the RUSI in 1984 . books, , privately and sent them to Hometel. no: I ned a bail , sealed it in an urn, The Cabinet Office is respons- ex-intelligence officers. Last I ALLIED Jewels than a few bits of burnt A mock obituary published in and presented it to the friends as a Christmas card. Mr B CLASSIFIED wood . the Sporting Times lamented ible for screening books by week in the High Court a per- Labour DUNBAR YttTktd. no I England captain. George Foulkes , li' APPOINTMENTS 18, 19 The Royal escort was arr- the death of English cricket former civil servants, but would manent injunction preventing spokesman on foreign affairs , Allio.1 1 )unl).ir Assuuihv p . 1 Ivo Bligh later married one The Giuirdiimand mtsosul.MN.vvnM i.i'inANci l'KIWOST. Sn'iiklnii SN1 1XZ. OBI I MOTORING 38 anged because the MCC could and said the body would be not say last week whether the The Observer , said the Prime Minister should L PROPERTY 39 of the women. When he died The Sunday Times from not allow the Ashes, which cremated and the ashes taken in 1927, as Lord Darnley, he book had been cleared. One take action or abandon the legal TRAVEL 19 , 34. 36, 37, 39 were impossible to insure, to to Australia. bequeathed the Ashes to the source, however, said that the publishing ex-MI5 officer Peter battle against Mr Peter Wright WHAT'S ON 16 travel on a commercial flight. The following year, when MCC at Lord's. two chapters by the ex-MIn Wright 's ' Spycatcher ' allega- and ' Spycatcher. ' hd«^JHMJ ^?lii: ^ i]t>»c»||i1J BBC ! ITV— London weekend ' CHRISTMAS itself may be called into question,' runs an old piece of doggerel, 8.30 THE RACOONS : ' Surprise attack.' 6.00 TV-am. ' if carried so far it creates indigestion. ' 9.25 BMX BEAT : The Tizer World BMX 8.55 PLAY SCHOOL : Presented by Elizabeth This is certainly the case with Christmas Freestyle Championships. Second day. Both plu ms and tu Watts. rkeys television, the sole purpose of which is Normally you 10.00 THE JOHNSTOWN MONSTER (film, 1971): wouldn't want to get Channel 4), partly because the BBC 9.15 ARTICLES OF FAITH : Prayer. ..As a Irish children make a model monste r to to cover the season with three coats of downwind of a set-up like this. But take Way of Life.' stand in for one supposed to dwell in the prime sugar-coating, leaving the discri- currently has some very popular shows a closer look. For this small-town JM ^ M^j iarffi p(EastEnders for example 9.30 MORNING WORSHIP : From the Roman nearby lough in an attempt to bring minating viewer with a bad case of artisan and his , Paul Daniels Catholic Cathedral of St Joseph's, tourism and prosperity to their village. charming young wife are by JOHN NAUGHTO and ' The Two Ronnies hives. in on the N ') and partly Swansea. A mass in honour of the Holy 11.00 MORNING WORSHIP :Fro m St Patrick's ground floor of something because the Corporation has one in- Family. The conventional explanation for the really big Roman Catholic Church in London's Soho . They're into religion and dition she held together a surprisingly built advantage over ITV, namel Square. Reflecting the cosmopolitan nat- relentless banality of the Christmas y that 10.15 JOSEPH AND CHILD : Arthur Dooley s revelation, sacrament and salvation. ure of the community, the service will be in entertaining ragbag of sketches. it can deploy BBC1 and BBC2 in co- sculpture. schedules is that the medium turns One day this kid will be bigger than English, French, Spanish and Chinese. the The crucial thing to understand ordinated pincer movements. The ITV , everything it touches into kitsch. But Beatles, bigger even than Michael 10.30 SIGN EXTRA : ' The Turkey.' A film made 12.00 CHRIS BONNINGTON-THE EVEREST this is too a theory. My own about the Christmas schedules is that boys, in comparison, appear to have by the Natural History Unit, plus sign YEARS : Portrait of the climber. charitable Jackson and Robert Maxwell rolled into they are pawns in a kind little control over Channel 4. language and subtitles. executives of arcane chess This 1.00 FUZZBUCKET : Disney children's film—a explanation is that television one. Follow him, goes the sales pitch, game, became particularly the event in which planners from the two obvious on Boxing 10.55 THE INTELLIGENCE MEN (film, 1965) : 12 year old boy with an invisible friend. loathe Christmas because and you shall have " Everlasting Life ". networks compete for control of the Day, when the main ITV plum Mirthless comedy misusing the talents of happened — 2.00 THE ROYAL YEAR : Interest in the Royal which it commemorates The meek shall inherit the earth — mass audience. Each team has at its ' Ghostbusters ', starting at 7.30—was Morecambe and Wise as a pair of idiots . Family continues unabated. Julia Somer- before television was invented . Thus though not its mineral ri recruited by MI5 to combat the vicious ghts. But right disposal a number of ' plums ' — i.e. undermined by BBC1 starting ville looks back over the year's crop of there is no Wilcox film of the now the kid is ' The espionage organisation ' Schlecht.' stories. Desmond cold and hungry. And all programmes or films certain to attract Paul Daniels Magic Show ' at 7.25 while because his father Fry 2.45 CHRISTMAS BULLSEYE rCelebrity edi- Virgin pregnancy, no interviews with didn't carry the right large numbers of viewers. ' The Sound at the same time ensuring that 12.35 THE GRAND KNOCKOUT TOURNA- 's delight : Cheri e Lunghi and Kenneth Branagh (ITV, 10.30 p.m.) no ' Newsnight ' kind of plastic . MENT: Recall the rain-swept days of tion with Jan ' I've never thrown a dart the Three Wise Men, The American Express of Music ' is one such plum ; almost any ' Oliver!' on BBC2 didn't finish until summer , with a repeat of Prince Edward's before ' Leeming, Geoff Capes, Eric Bris- exit poll on Herod's census, no Gold Card . Never leave home without James Bond film is another . The trick 7.40 . charity contest, held at Alton Towers. The "MMMM\smM^mms tow and others. it. Especially T^^ W^^^^ SSN ^^^ 1 ' Panorama ' investigation into the when you come to is to schedule your plums in such a way The rules of these Miriam Stoppard : Pouting. teams were led by the Yorks, the Princess ^^ 3.30 THE BRETTS : ' Grand Finale. With the Tory MPs in Bethlehem to be games were laid Princess Theatre badly damaged by fire, involvement of right-wing counted.' that you capture the mass audience down many years Royal and Prince Edward. ago, and may in fact recording Piano Concerto no. 23 in A BBC2 CHANNEL 4 the Bretts decide to stage a pantomime to the Slaughter of the Innocents. There is In point of fact , Christmas is an early and then keep it for the remainder be changing. They were based on 1.55 NEWS. try to recoup their losses. Final episode. exceedingly Major with the orchestra of La Scala and not even, dammit, a ' Whicker's dangerous time. Apart of the day. Thus on Christmas Day the theories of ' audience inertia ', i.e. the '2.00 EASTENDERS. 9.00 PAGES FROM CEEFAX. 4.30 CUE GARY'S CHRISTMAS!: Laughing World ' special on the Nativity, though altogether from the risks attendant Carlo Maria Giulini; by BBC's record- 9.15 BABAR COMES TO AMERICA : Narrated 9.25 MOVIE MAHAL: Shammi Kapoor, star of BBC started playing in earnest with belief that viewers were essentially ¦3.30 ESCAPE TO VICTORY (film, 19B1): Gary Wilmot , with guests Linda Lusardi, upon close ings of Jacqueline du Pre by Peter Ustinov. 1960s musicals. a script for one exists. proximity with one's ' EastEnders ' at 3.10 p.m., followed passive sods who were likely to stick 's Unintentionally hilarious World War II and Bill Oddie. It goes like this : relatives, there ;are the medical hazards masterclasses; and by Julian Lloyd action yarn about a soccer match 9.40 SEBASTIAN THE INCREDIBLE DRAWING 10.00 COVENTRY'S CUP OF JOY : Repeat of this *5.15 CORONATION STREET : Hilda Ogden's by ' Indiana Jones and the Temple of with whatever channel they first turned DOG: Hall Hat Joe.' cheerfully between allied prisoners (Pele and year's FA Cup Final. When Coventry farewell. 6.15 NEWS. Whicker appears against a backdrop of enumerated by Dr Miriam Doom,' Russ Abbot, ' Only Fools and to. But his assumption is being Webber's performance of the Elgar 9.45 THE MOLE IN A DREAM : Children's story. triumphed over the favourite team. Spurs. Stoppard in Bobby Moore among them) and a crack 6.20 HIGHWAY CHRISTMAS SPECIAL : Among mud-walled houses. A star gleams in the Chri stmas is Coming, Horses ' and ' The Two Ronnies.' undermined by technology . The advent Cello Concerto (BBC2, Friday). German team in occupied Europe. 10.15 MOLLY'S PILGRIM : The children in YTV' 12.00 THE CHART SHOW CHRISTMAS SPE- Sir Harry Secombe's guests are Roy Eastern sky. Somewhere in the distance s salutary warning of the dangers ITV, Wildlife enthusiasts were similarly Among the worst films ever made by a Molly's new American school tease her in contrast, mounted Disney's of video recorders offers viewers the CIAL : The Top Ten singles of the year and Castle, Max Boyce and Brian Johnston. the. distinctive sound of a camel farting ahead . Apparently some people get major director (John Huston). Stars about her Russian parents. ' Alice in Wonderland ' at 3.30, possibility of choosing when they watch blessed with a pair of quirky pro- a selection of hits from the ' Dance,' 7.15 HOMETO ROOST : Family Ties.'Feature- black eyes from high Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone. 10.35 CHARLIE BROWN : You're a Good Man, can be heard . velocity cham- followed by a lame sequel to ' Mary what . And remote-control televisions grammes : Brockside (BBC1) described Charlie Brown'. ' Heavy Metal,' ' Album ' and ' Indies ' length edition of the sitcom starring John pagne corks or Thaw and Reece Dinsdale. WHICKER : ' There is a long tradition just by walking into Poppins ', and then by Cilia Black, are increasingly popular, giving viewers the curious lifestyle of the urban badger 5.20 ROLF HARRIS CARTOON TIME : The 11.25 ARABIAN ADVENTURE (film, 1979) : Cut- charts. And what was the best new band of Christmas trees. Others 1987? 8.15 CHRISTMAS SURPRISE SURPRISE : What here of austere, ascetic abstinence, a are electro- ' Coronation Street ' and Dennis Nor- the ability to zap from channel to —and the even more curious habits of Million Hare ', ' Cat Feud ' and ' The Dog price re-working of ' Thief of Baghdad ', a resolute refusal cuted by fairy lights. Still more crack House.' hard day's Arabian night starring Chris- has Cilia got up her sequinned sleeve this to rely upon the den's 'It'll be All Right on Christmas channel without leaving their arm- badger aficionados, one of whom grinds 1.30 GLEN MILLER — A MOONLIGHT evening? resources of the Welfare State. Here, in their dentures upon coins embedded in 5.45 THAT'S LIFE PRESENTS : Another topher Lee as an evil caliph challenged by Night ' . This meant that by the time the chairs. If these trends continue, then up 17 pounds of bread and biscuits a SERENADE : Tributes, film clips and home 9.15 WATCHING : Relentlessly chirpie Liver- Christmas puddings chance to see Meg the mathematical dog, stocky, uncharismatic Prince Oliver Bethlehem, though carpenters may carp , while others commercial channel the TV moguls will ni movies, presented by Van Johnson. pool comedy finds the characters reached its real eventually have to ght in order to entice the creatures the love-sick budgie and the sheep who Tobias. Elizabeth Welch and Mickey Roo- about the paucity of pre-natal nursing regularly swallow cake decorations, a pondering on the problem of getting a plum of the evening — an excellent invent other ways of keeping viewers into his lounge. The only conclusion to thought she was a dog. Esther Rantzen ney lend a much-needed touch of class. practice which 3.00 DAMON AND DEBBIE: Phil Redmond's Christmas tree on the cheap. facilities and wanderers may whinge , according to Dr Inspector Morse looks at precocious pets from 15 years of 1.00 NO LIMITS : Teenage rock roadshow. whodunnit — BBC hooked over the holiday period. be drawn is that badgers must be pretty 1 answer to ' Romeo and Juliet ' -—a spin- about over-booked bed-and-breakfast Stoppard, ' could lead to peritonitis and That 's Life.' 2.00 THE BOLSHOI BALLET: Memorable off from ' Brookside ' featuring the two 9.45 NEWS. viewers were already 45 minutes into a Until then, Christmas will continue smart to reduce humans to this kind of 'Omnibus ' takes us inside the Bolshoi accommodation, self-help is the order a major operation .' teenage lovers, played by Simon O'Brien 10.00 SPITTING IMAGE : ' Christmas Show Spe- new Miss Marple tale, and unlikely to to be a bleak time for the discriminating reliable food source . Pridd y the 6.20 NEWS. Followed by weather. Ballet School and interviews some of the and Gillian Kearney. First of three cial.' Seasonal bile. of the day . Or the night. If the Hilton Only a major operation could have switch. company's stars, viewer. At present, just about the only Hedgehog (BBC2) proved conclusively •6.35 SONGS OF PRAISE : Linking London and including Galina Ulanova episodes (rpt). 10.30 THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING "Shall is full, then a guest-house will do. If the got gorgeous and chief choreographer Yuri , pouting Ms Stoppard The BBC is a formidable opponent in Jamaica on the 25th anniversary of the Grigorovich. we not suffer as wittily as we can?' minority interests properly catered for what one had long suspected, namely •4.10 THE GREAT PHILOSOPHERS: guest house is jam-packed, then the herself into her party dress, a backless this game of ratings island's independence. Wittgen- 5.30 WEST COUNTRY JOURNEY : British Rail demands a character in Christopher Fry's chess. This is partly are music and wildlife. For example, that hedgehogs are not very bright . In stein '. Final programme. stable will suffice.' number from which travelogue made in 1953. extraordinary drama, set in the 1400s. And her top half because of the highly developed this week was much improved by fact, they are roughly on a par with the "7.15 LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE : ' Big Day 4.55 DID YOU SEE ? Ludovlc Kennedy Pan to reveal Nativity scene . emerged like pistachio at Dream Acres.' Feature length episode . . . suffer wittily they do—particularly Cherie escaping from a popularising instincts of people like Horowitz plays Mozart (BBC2), a TV moguls' idea of the average looks back over the year 's TV. 6.00 AMERICAN FOOTBALL. Followed by Lunghi and Kenneth Branagh as the WHICKER : ' Not a pretty sight is it ? disintegrating cornetto. In this con- Michael Grade (prior to finds Seymour, Compo and Clegg helping 5.45 BUSH CHRISTMAS : (film, 1983) : Four News Summary and Weather. his departure to riveting verite account of the maestro Christmas viewer. out at the annual garden fete. Compo is accused witch and confessed murderer. Australian children try to save their father's 7.15 MON CHER PAPA : Illustrator Maurice The dialogue is rich, playful and distracted by the prospect of seeing Nora farm by recovering a stolen racehorse but Batty in her waitress uniform. Sendak developed a passion for Mozart pleasingly eccentric. The production is an become hopelessly lost. A remake of the eightieth birthday present to Fry, though episode of" Terry and June " and 1948 classic. after seeing ' Idomeneo ' 15 years ago. MONDAY ni ^mmnAMMl-M& finishes up like " Deliverance '8.35 PERRY MASON — THE CASE OF THE the set and costumes let down the quality ¦ w^^ x imxm WMM ".' Two The film follows Mozarfs~life~through his 7.00-7.40 WOGAN (BBC1): Terry ^ middle-class couples set sail up river SHOOTING STAR (TV film, 1986) : A chat *7.15 MARY ROSE: J. M. Barrie's ghost story, - and the performances. own letters and Sendak's drawing. assembles the stars of great radio live, from Bournemouth International fora holiday afloat—and make the show host is shot dead on prime-time TV adapted for television by Trevor Ray stars 12.00 HART TO HART : ' A Christmas Hart.' Amanda Root as the women who returns to comedy shows like ' ITMA', ' Round Centre. There could be no better start mistake of picking up a demonic hitch- by a film star. Raymond Burr resurrects 8.20 AN ICELANDIC SAGA : Swedish cartoon. Aetian and intrigue with Robert Wagner the Home ' and ' The Navy Lark '. His the mighty bulk of Perry Mason to defend her family untouched by age, after disap- and Stefanie Powprs, to the New Year. hiker en route. Marion Bailey and pearing for a quarter of a century. With Neil 8.30 MARIA CALLAS — LIFE AND ART : guests include Jimmy Edwards, the B 9.45-11.15TAGGART (ITV) : 'Cold Joanne Pearce are particularly good the star , ably assisted by faithful Delia 1.00 CARPENTERS-YESTERDAY ONCE McCaul as her son and Anthony Calf as her Robert Sutherland (Professor at the Royal late Irene Handl, Leslie Phillips , and Blood. ' A feature-length thriller with as the wives with Stuart Wilson, as Street (Barbara Hale). MORE: Musical tribute to the late Karen husband, Simon. College of Music and Callas's last accom- DeryckGuyter. the dead-eyed Glasgow detective Vince the hitch-hiker. Carpenter, by brother Richard. 10.10 NEWS. 8.55 GLOBAL REPORT : A street child in Khar- panist) is just one of the many ¦ 8.30-10.00 CHARLES RENNIE (played by Mark McManus). But there's B10.15-11.1STHE TEN QUID interviewed. He says 2.00 NORTH TO ALASKA (film, 1960): Lively TOURISTS (ITV) : The largest voluntary 10.25 EVERYMAN: ' Madonna.' The Pope has toum, an Estonian caterer taking , 'They had a lot in MACKINTOSH—DREAMS AND little in the way of Hogmanay jollies on common. Aristotle Onassis was the most comedy Western from veteran Henry population shift in history occurred declared 1987-88 as ' Marian Year.' advantage of Gorbachov's reforms, a RECOLLECTIONS (Channel 4): his beat, when a masseur is found, famous Greek man, and she was the most Hathaway starring John Wayne and Ste- between 1947-73. One and a half Angela Tilby's film examines the image of Filipino journalist, and a Shanghai music Mackintosh'scareer began brilliantly murdered at a health and beauty teacher are among those we meet in this famous Greek woman ...He used her wart Granger as the turn-of-the-century exhibition. Diane Keen co-stars million people left England for the Virgin from Ephesus in Turkey (where gold prospectors bickering over chilly in Glasgow but ended in obscurity, and Australia when the British and she ascended) to Lourdes (where thous- documentary. like a diamond in his crown, but he never Capucine and uniting against colourful he was forced to turn from architect to Australian Government's Assisted ands seek her miraculous cures). 10.25 STILL OF THE NIGHT : (film, 1982) : New really understood her artistic needs.' villain Ernie Kovacs. Nicely orchestrated water-colourist. Tom Conti stars as one NEW YEAR'S DAY Passage Scheme offered a one way York shrink Roy Scheider is obsessed with of his descendants in a dreamy drama 11.20 THE MALTESE FALCON (film, 1941) . murder suspect Meryl Streep in a gleam- fist-fights. B 8.30 a.m.-12.30 p.m. AUSTRALIA ticket to the Antipodes for just E10. We 10.00 THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (film, John Huston' ing, ice-cold thriller, 3.45 CAHILL : UNITED STATES MARSHAL documentary which does visual credit LIVE (Channel 4): Down Under they're hear from those who stayed and those s stunning debut as writer- directed by Robert 1968) : Wonderfully detailed incarnation of director, an immaculately cast adaptation Benton and designed as a (film, 1973): Smug, sentimental Western, to Mackintosh's clean lines and pale watching this in the evening at the start who came back. The programme also homage to Edinburgh's wayward, life-enhancing of Hammet 's classic thriller featuring Hitchcock , directed by Andrew V. Maclaglen in his interiors. of Australia's Bicentenary Year. includes archive material from a 1965 to some two dozen of whose pedagogue by Maggie Smith in a hand- Humphrey Bogart as private eye Sam films it obsessively alludes. sub-Ford style, with John Wayne as an ¦ 9.55-10.35 FLYING FOR FUN (BBC2) : Opened with a speech by Prime documentary about four families some, well-acted adaptation of Muriel planning to emigrate. What has Spade. A wonderful start to Huston's 11.55 NINOTCHKA (film, 1939) : Garbo ageing lawman whose neglected sons The Aeronca (a precursor of the Minister Bob Hawke. The programme , in her Spark's brilliant novella. Yet somehow it happened to those families 21 career that ended this year with a superb penultimate screen role, (Gary Grimes, Clay O'Brien) rebel by microlight airc raft) buzzed over the visits 70 locations, and is presented by years laughs for the first lacks the book's individual tang. on? an adaptation of Joyce's ' The Dead.' (b/ time as a stern Russian official thawed and teaming up with outlaw George Kennedy. English countryside in the 1930s, Clive James. Paul Hogan and Dame w.) seduced by the West. Utterly delightful One of a 1970s cycle of pictures about piloted by Major-General Jack Parham Edna Everage, combining to give a 12.10 THE DECAMERON : comedy, exquisitely directed by the incom- ' Pestle and Mortar.' frontier kids in search of role models. (played in this drama-documentary by picture of the country's past and its 1.00 WEATHER Boccaccio's tales of lust and greed SATURDAY parable Lubitsch from a script by Wilder , in 5.40 CARTOON TIME. Geoffrey Beevers).The ' flying present. It concludes with a firework silhouette animation. Ends 12.30 am. Ceefax subtitles. and Bracken. Ends 1.50 a.m. Oracle subtitles bathtub ' had a top speed of 75 mph and display. B7.15-8.15SCHUBERT(BBC2) :Kurt could hover. B 9.00-10.00 THE GIFTIE (Channel 4): Masur conducts the Leipzig ¦ ¦ 10.00-11.00THOMAS ' FATS • Comic variation of the doppelganger Gewandhaus Orchestra in a performance of Schubert's Symphony HB WALLER—THIS JOINT IS JUMPIN' story stars John Wells and Richard UU^^^^ UMlUnA ^9Bhn ^^^ nl^h^^ M ^^^ M!«MHH l(JFyiJSI^ ;W»'W»frH O'Sullivan as two suburban males who No 9 (' The Great ') recorded in St (Channel 4): Fats burst on a ' dance David's Hall, Cardiff. Jane Glover ¦ ¦ BBC1 : As London except Wales: 1.00 a.m. News and B HIGHLIGHTS : George Harrison talks about his latest album (Radio , have inadvently duplicated 1 4.00 p.m.) ; Dietrich Fischer- crazy ' world with the music they introduces the first of six televised Weather. Northern Ireland : 1.00 a.m. News and Dieskau sings lieder by Wolf (Radio 3, 7.50 p.m.) ; ' Hancock' themselves. Joanna van Gysegham s Half Hour ', from 1958 (Radio 4, 12.25 wanted. His son (a dead ringer for his concerts to be screened next week. Weather, p.m.) ; ' Space Children and Janet Key play the wives who find ' is a musical with a moral (Radio 4, 7.0 p.m.) ; the vital role ol' The Warm- father) is among those interviewed B 8.15-9.05 BERGERAC (BBC1): A D BBC2 : As London. Up Men ' (Radio 4, 11.0 p.m.). this proliferation of husbands is a about Fats, the jazz he played, and the sixth series for the Jersey detective. ¦ ¦ ANGLIA : As London mixed blessing. people he knew . . . Al Capone Susan, the girlfriend (Louise Jameson) ¦ ¦ BORDER : As London except 12 00 midnight Top Ten B RADIO 1 (1053 kHz/285m. 1089 kHz/275m, 88-90.2 News. 1.05 New Review of the Year. 2.0 Les Miserables. B10.0O-11.40 WAY UPSTREAM VHF) 6.0 a.m. Nicky Campbell. 8.0 Peter Powell. 10.0 ' kidnapped ' him once and paid him is put out, when Bergerac (John New Acts of the 1980s. 12.30 a.m. Border weather. 3.0 The Pickwick Papers, 3.4.0 An Evening with Alan Jay Double act : Husband and wife Tom Conti and Kara Wilson in ' Charles Rennie Mackintosh ' (Monday). (BBC1) : In the words of adaptor/ Dave Lee Travis. 1.0 Mike Read. 3.0 Radio Scruples. Lerner. 5.0 With Great Pleasure : Sue Townsend. 100 bucks for each request. Nettles) is assigned to be full-time ¦ ¦ CENTRAL : As London except 12.00 midnight Prisoner 6.0 directorTerry Johnson, Alan 3.30 Backchat. 4.0 On Cloud Nine. 5.0 Top 40 7.0 Anne News. 6.15 The Hundred and One Dalmatians, 2. 6.30 baby-sitter to a supergrass and his Cell Block H. 12.55 a.m. Donahue. 1.50 Thriller Classic : programme looks at the company's the acclaimed series Edward the see, read about, have read the book of ' Nightingale. 9.0 Andy Peebles. 11.0-12.0 Ranking Miss Murder at the Red October. 7.0 Space Children. 7.45 Ayckbourn s play ' begins like an mother. Films PHILIP FRENCH Burnt Evidence. 3.00 a.m. Jobfinder. P. Seventh (9.00-10.00) made in 1975. With Crime at Christmas. 9.15 The Natural History TUESDAY contribution to British television and and wi II video when they come round B RADIO 2 (693 kHz/433m 909kHz/303m, B8-90.2 VHF) a CHANNEL: As London except 12.00 midnight . Programme. 10.0 News. 10.15 Behind the Scenes of LIFE AND that of its impresario, Lord Grade. ATV Annette Crosbie as Victoria and Robert on television. } 4.0 a.m. Dave Bussey. 6.0 Graham Knight. 7.30 Roger B 3.00-5.05 THE Airplane II — The Sequel. 1.35 Weather and Crime. 11.0 The Warm-U p Hardy as Albert. 1961 is the date of Val Royle. 9.05 Melodies lor You. 11.0 Desmond Carrington. Men. 11.30 Seeds of Faith. ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS gave us ' Sunday Night at the London Closedown. 11.45 Little Horrors . Bri5MiM $S§B&f §B&HM 1.0 Brian Matthew. 2.0 Benny Green. 3.0 Alan Dell. 4.0 12.0-12.15 News. NICKLEBY (Channel 4): Channel 4's Palladium ', ' Emergency Ward Ten ', Parnell' s Sunday Night at the London ¦ ¦ ¦ GRAMPIAN : As London except 12.00 midnight ¦ WORLD SERVICE 1 NEW YEAR'S EVE Today, George Harrison discusses On Tuesday Radio 4 offers a taste Moira Anderson. 4.30 Sing Something Simple. 5.0 (648kHz(43Sm) 6.0 a.m. Newsdesk. first-evercommtssion comes round for The Persuaders ', ' Edward the Palladium (10.00-11 ,00pm) which America's Top Ten. 12.30 Reflections. 12.35 Closedown. 6.30 Londres Matin. 7.0 News. 7.09 Twenty-Four Hours. B 8.00-9.00 THE CONTINENTAL his new album, On Cloud Nine (Radio of Gamelan music—all gongs, drums Charlie Chester. 7.0 Living with Betty. 7.30 Ian Wallace. a repeat. The RSC's production Seventh ' and of course, ' Crossroads ' teams up a very young Bruce Forsyth in B GRANADA: As London except 12.00 midnight Alfred B.30 Sunday Half-Hour. 9.0 Hundred Best Tunes. 10.05 7.30 From Our Own Correspondent. 7.50 Waveguide. B.O (BBC2) : A sequel to John Godber's 1, 4 p.m.), while Radio 4 offers a and throwing off British inhibitions starring Roger Rees and David and' TheMuppetShow '. a shiny suit, with Norman Wisdom. And Hitchcock Presents. 12.30 Closedown. Songs from the Shows. 10.45 Laurie Holloway. 11.0 News. 8.09 Reflections. 8.15 The Pleasure's Yours. 9.0 comedy series ' The Ritz ', set in a vile musical Space Children (7 p.m.) (11.25 a.m.), and starts a new six-part (among many) is chopped ¦ finally it's The Saint (11.00-12.05am) ¦ ¦ HTV WEST AND WALES :As London except 12.00 Jazz. 1.0 Bill Rennells. 3.0-4.0 A Little Night Music. News. 9.09 Sunday Papers. 9.15 Cantabile at Christmas. Threlfall into 10.15-11.00 ASOURCE OF about the last children to leave farce Starring Leslie Wllley starring 9.45 On the Road. staring Roger Moore, before he Northern disco. The staff have moved midnight. America's Top Ten 12.30 Weather . B RADIO 3 (1215kHz/247m. 90.2-92.4 VHF) 6.55 a.m. 10.01 Short Story. 10.15 Classical four chunks and will be shown on INNOCENT MERRIMENT (ITV) : Record Review. on to Spain where they are opening a Planet Earth. Verdi's life is Leslie Phillips (12.25 p.m.). Ending an Closedown. Weather. 7.0 News. 7.05 English Pastorals. 8.0 World 10.30 Service. 11.0 News. 11.09 News Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Jonathan Miller's re-working of Gilbert became 007. This sadly, is one of the Service News. 8.10 Lili Kraus. 9.0 News. 9.05 Concert about Britain. 11.15 From Our Own Correspondent. similar establishment called The dramatised in three parts, in Viva undistinguished Radio 3 series of ¦ ¦ SCOTTISH : As London except 12,00 midnight. Late Fortycoats and the Seraphim Stone. 1.45 Dr Snuggles. afternoons. ' ' The Mikado ' as ' an later episodes made in colour—not the Choice : Purcell, Lulgini , Bach and Dvorak. 10.30 The 11.30 Londres Midi. 12.01 Play : Plutus. 1.0 News. 1.09 and Sullivan s Verdi , (Mon, Wed , Thurs, Radio 4 11 parodies come moderately funny 3.20 Sunday Matinee: National Velvet. 5.30 Piano Plus. superior monochrome from the early Continental. Frank Bruno makes a , Call. 12.05 The All-time Christmas Top Ten. 12.35 Octave of the Nativity. 11.30 New Stockholm Chamber Twenty-Four Hours. 1.30 A Matter of Honour. 2.01 Sandi ¦ 8.00-10.00 SHERLOCK HOLMES— English panto musical ' seems to have ones on Sartre (Parodies Lost, 6.00 The Angelus. 6.01 News. 6.10 Iris '87. 6.40 Measure guest appearance. a.m.) and John Waite reports on five Closedown Orchestra: Tubin, Jolibet. Nielsen and Dvorak. 12.20 Jones. 2.30 Sports Roundup. 2.45 The Hound of Fate. 3.0 THE SIGN OF FOUR (ITV) : Granada TV been as much fun in rehearsal as it is in Sixties. Tuesday 9.20 p.m.) and Joan Didion ¦ ¦ of the Year. 7.45 Johnny McEvoy and Friends. 8.15 B 9.30-11.15 THE MOTOWN STORY surviving, cherishable, specialist TSW : As London except 12.00 midnight. Postscript. From the Aldeburgh Festival : Haydn, Britten and Radio Nowsreel. 3.15 Concert Hall. 4.0 News. 4.09 produce the trump card in the performance. Even Miller is seen ¦ 9.50-12.10THE MIKADO (ITV ) In (Wednesday 10.10 p.m.), elevated by 12.05 Weather and Shipping forecast. 12.06 Closedown. Where in the World? 9.00 News. 9.15 Johnny Logan. Beethoven. 1.45 London Classical Players : Beethoven. Commentary. 4.15 Art and (Channel 4): It's a perfect story in its small shops in Nation of Accountability. 4.45 Letter Holmesian centenary celebrations with reduced to helpless laughter. Jonathan Miller's production for the Eleanor Bron's astonishing B TSW: As London except 12.00 midnight. Postscript. 10.15 Sunday Night at the Movies: The Bounty. 12.30 2.25 Words. 2.30 London Classical Players : Beethoven. from America. 5.0 News. 5.09 Reflections. 5.15 English way—big money, power, politics, Shopkeepers (Monday, Radio 4, 12 a two-hour adaptation, starring Jeremy English National Opera, the action has versatility. John Peel's Festive 50 12.05 Weather and Shipping Forecast. 12.06 Closedown. a.m. Late News, 12.35 Closedown. 3.20 Dmitri Alexeev (piano): Chopin and Scriabin. 3.55 by Radio. 5.45 Londres Soir. 6.30 Heute Aktuel. 8.0 talent and some tragic deaths along the noon). Radio 1 charts The Rise and My Dear Friend Henriette. 4.10 Dmitri Alexeev, 2: Brett (the best-ever Holmes, I would been transferred from Japan in the continues (Tues/Wed , H TVS: As London except 12.00 midnight. Airplane II ¦ RTE 2: 4.55 p.m. Pajo 's Junkbox. 5.55 Barnum. 8.00 News. 8.09 Twenty-Four Hours. 8.30 A Matter of Honour. Rise ol U2, 1987's leading group with Radio 1, 10 Schumann. 5.0 Chris Martin's Lex Talionis. 6.35 BBC 9.01 Short Story. contest). The story opens outside a WEDNESDAY 1880s to England in the 1930s. Eric Idle way. It's also inter-cut with some of the —the Sequel 1.35 Company followed by Closedown. Nuacht. 8.05 Remington Steele. 9.00 The Madonna. 9.55 9,15 The Pleasure's Yours. 10.0 News. their ' Joshua Tree ' p.m.), and Radio 3 plays black Scottish Symphony Orchestra : Lutoslawski, Chain III ; 10.09 I've Been Together Now for 70 Years. 10.25 Book Gothic mansion, mists a-swirl, as a B 8.30-12.05 SALUTE TO ATV (Channel makes his operatic debut as Ko-Ko, the best pop music ever recorded, and is album (Monday, B TYNE TEES: As London except 12.00 midnight. Easy Minnelli on Minnelli. 11.15 Twilight Zone Special. 12.10 American blues about Christmas Cello Concerto ; Shostakovich, Symphony Noi 1. 7.50 Choice. 10.30 Financial Review of the Year. 10.40 peg-legged man and some sort of 4) -.The late comedian Marty Feldman Lord High Executioner ; with presented by the senior statesman of Radio 1, 2 p.m.). At 5.10 p.m.. Radio Street. 12.25 News. Closedown. Nocturne. 12.20 Closedown. Fischer-Dieskau at the QEH. 9.30 1987 Reith Lectures. (Christmas Time Blues , Wednesday, Reflections. 10.45 Sports Roundup. 11.0 News. 11.09 shuffling dwarf make their way across won the Golden Rose of Montreux Bonaventura Bottone as Nanki-Poo, rock'n'roll, Paul Gambaccini. 3 broadcasts three classic Henry H YORKSHIRE : As London except 12 00 midnight. Lord B S4C: As Channel 4 except 8.45. Hafoc. 1.30. Film I 10.0 Anti-organic Developments. 10.50 The Octave of Commentary. 11.15 12.30 p.m.). On New Year's Day Letter from America. 11.30 The re-creations of compilation of Reed comedies, in memory of their of the Tin Soldiers. 12.30 Fjve Minutes. 12.35 My Man Godfrey. 3.15 The Snowman. 3.45 The Old Man the Nativity. 11.57-12.0 News. Questions of Faith. 12.0 News. 12.09 News about Britain. the grounds. award in 1972 for this Richard Van Allan as Pooh-Bah and B 9.35-2.55am 87 WHISTLE TEST 88 Radio 1 features the best of The B RADIO 4 (200kHz/1500m producer, the late Douglas Closedown, ol Lochnagar. 5.00 A Gospel Session. 7.15 Sam Tan Y , 92.4-94.8 VHF) 6.0 a.m. 12.15 Radio Newsreel. 12.30 Service. 1.01 Pop Special. Victorian London are particularly fine. sketches from the Comedy Machine Lesley Garnett as Yum-Yum. (BBC2) : Bruce Springsteen talks and Prince 's Trust Concert (3.10 p.m.) News. 6.10 Prelude. 6.30 Morning Has Broken. 7.0 News. ¦ ¦ RTE1 : 900 the Phantom Treehouse 10.15 Teledu. 7.20 Newyddion. 7.30 Rhaglen Hywel Gwynfryn. 2.0 News. 2.09 Commentary. 2.15 Peebles' Choice. 2.30 P 8.30-9.30 JUST A SONG AND DANCE series. CalledThe Best of the Comedy B10.45-11.30 FILMS OF THE YEAR plays (including his Hammersmith Cleverdon : A Very Great Man Indeed with Clapton, Phil Collins. This 7.15 On Your Farm. 7.40 Sunday. B.50 Sir Harry Discovery. and 11 10 Holy B.10 Pobol Y Cwm. 8.40 Dechrau Canu. Dechrau 3.0 News. 3.09 News about Britain. 3.15 Good STORY (Channel 4): Wednesday Machine (8.30-9.00pm) it also features (BBC1): Barry Norman makes his Odeondebutin 1975). At 11.05 we hear (Monday), A Hedge , Backwards <^ Laurel Hardy. Communion. 11.55 Secombe, appeal. 9.0 News. 9.15 Letter from America. Books. 3.30 A Week' s Composer (Monday-Friday, News followed Canmol. 9.10 Film : I fro Breuddwydion. 11.10 Maria Matter of Honour. 4.0 Newsdesk. 4.30 Six evening on by film, Hugo the Hippo. 1.20 9.30 Morning Service. 10.15 Archers. 11.15 On Duty. Four Eight. 4.35 night's archive Channel 4 is Spike Milligan. The next dip in ATV's selection of the year's cinematic from Zimbabwe's Bhundu Boys and at (Wednesday), and The Primal Radio 3, 9.10 a.m.) is Ravel. ^^ Callas—Lile and Art. 12.40. Closedown. Financial News. 4.45 Morgenmagazin. 11.30 Pick of the Year. 12.25 Hancock's Half Hour. 1.0 5.45 Recording of the Week. called ' Salute to ATV '. Tonight's archives brings up.the first episode of highlights—the films you saw, meant to 11.40 it's the inimitable, Gary Glitter, Scream , as It Were ... (Friday). ANNE KARPF