20 December 1982

Monday

1982-12-20

Radio

 * BBC Radio 1 10.00 pm: John Peel. Best sessions of the year (Crabs, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Simple Minds, Roman Holiday) and 1982 Festive Fifty 40-36.

TV

 * BBC One
 * 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, NikolaTesla? It was Tesla, not Edison, who invented the method of transmitting electricity which makes the 20th century work.

scans GraemeWood