20 December 1982

Monday 20 December

1982-12-20

Radio

 * BBC Radio 1
 * 10.00 pm: John Peel. Not only your 50 all-time favourites, but also the top 50 compiled from your choice of this year's releases. Tonight numbers 40-36, past and present. Also included will be some of this year's best sessions. (Crabs, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Simple Minds, Roman Holiday)

TV

 * BBC One
 * 5.10 pm Blue Peter with Simon Groom, Sarah Greene and Peter Duncan. Goldie's puppy. Prince, will be spending his first Christmas as a fully qualified guide dog for the blind. Peter meets Prince and his new owner to see how Prince is settling down to his life as a pair of eyes for the blind.
 * 10.50 pm Film 82. with Iain Johnstone. A roundup of Christmas films, including Trail of the Pink Panther and Night Shift. John Cleese and Michael Palin talk about the productive year they've had in the film studios making Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Privates on Parade, The Missionary and Yellowbeard.
 * BBC Two
 * 6.10 pm Riverside. The music, art and style of today from Riverside Studios, Hammersmith. Marc Almond of Soft Cell chats to Victoria Studd while cooking his mince pies. Danny and the Nogoodniks provide the studio music and Neil Arthur from Blancmange tries out some new portable video equipment.
 * 8.10 pm Des O'Connor Tonight. The last of eight programmes starring Des O'Connor who plays host to some of the finest entertainment talent from Britain and America.
 * 9.00 pm The Vocal Touch Anita Harris.
 * 9.35 pm Horizon The Mysterious Mr Tesla. What is the truth about ' the lost secrets' of the mysterious Yugoslav-American genius, Nikola Tesla. It was Tesla, not Edison, who invented the method of transmitting electricity which makes the 20th century work.

scans GraemeWood