On the eve of the opening of the Ideal Home Exhibition, Nationwide comes tonight from Olympia. Frank Bough and Valerie Singleton are your guides to the newest ideas in home-making for 1976.
This week Nationwide comes from the BBC's regional centre at Southampton. Tonight cameras at sea and on land cover a cross-Channel yacht race in which, for three days, eight 70-foot ketches belonging to the Ocean Youth Club are competing.
For three days, eight 70-foot ketches belonging to the Ocean Youth Club have been battling in a race across the Channel and back to coincide with a special week of Nationwide programmes from the BBC's Southampton studios. Tonight, the climax, with outside broadcast cameras on the finishing line at Plymouth.
The last of a special week of programmes presented from the BBC's Southampton studios and featuring people, pastimes, and places of interest in the South of England. At 6.45* Sportswide
Jimmy Hill looks forward to the weekend's sport with action, interviews and the day's latest news. As well as the regular football and racing preview there will be a report from the Burghley Horse Trials.
Including a final report on The British are Coming
People from Boxford, Suffolk, spent a bicentennial holiday with families in Boxford, Massachusetts. BERNARD FALK and Nationwide cameras went with them. At 6.45*
Sportswide Jimmy Hill introduces an action preview of the weekend sport with a special emphasis on tomorrow's Football League programme. Peter O'Sullevan is also on hand to give his views on Saturday's racing calendar.
Included in this special Christmas edition-the climax of the Young Nation Funky Dancing Competition, with Flick Colby and Legs & Co; the concluding episode of Captain Nationwide's Christmas Adventure; and the winning entries in the Nationwide Carol Competition