23 December 1981

Wednesday 23 December

1981-12-23

Radio

 * BBC R1
 * 10.00 pm John Peel's Festive Fifty - featuring numbers 41-50 in the chart compiled from listeners' favourite records. Also including some of this year's best studio sessions.(see JP Wiki)

TV

 * BBC One
 * 1.00 pm Pebble Mill at One It's the Pebble Mill Christmas Party, and the lunchtime team celebrate with guests from the world of showbusiness, who are dropping in for the occasion.
 * 2.00 pm The Nativity A made-for-tv feature starring Madeline Stowe as Mary, John V. Shea as Joseph and Leo McKern as Herod. A sensitive and dramatic treatment of the months leading up to the Nativity sets the courtship of Mary by Joseph against the turbulent background of a people suffering, and starving, under the Roman occupation forces. (First showing on British television)
 * 4.30 pm The Record Breakers The last in the present series with Roy Castle, Norris McWhirter Do you know ... The size of the biggest kite? How many world records Sebastian Coe has broken?
 * 7.25 pm Carry On Doctor starring Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period of total chaos.
 * 9.25 pm Tenko The last of a ten-part serial. With Christmas coming, the women start to make preparations to celebrate the festivities in camp - but Christmas comes sooner than expected.
 * ITV

scans GraemeWood