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Nationwide viewers get their first chance to vote tonight.
The six voting categories: Best Male Singer, Best Female Singer, Best Group/Band, Best Single, Best LP, and the Nationwide Golden Award for the most enduring singing star of the year.
The Nationwide team of FRANK BOUGH , SUE LAWLEY
HUGH SCULLY , JOHN STAPLETON and BOB WELLINGS with background to the news of the day, including The British Pop and Rock Awards 1980
A chance to see more contenders for the Nationwide
Golden Award.
This trophy is for the entertainer or performer who, in the opinion of Nationwide viewers, displayed the most all-round family appeal during the past year. Also, Anne Nightingale and Simon Bates look at some of the artists they'll be considering for the Radio 1 DJ's Award for outstanding contribution to British popular music.
Watchdog a new series in which
HUGH SCULLY invites you to investigate the world around you. Are you paying too much? Are you being told the truth?
Watchdog joins forces with the Nationwide audience to do battle on behalf of Britain's consumers.
Exclusive film of a major operation to save the life of Ching-Ching, one of the zoo's priceless giant pandas.
This week: Why have zoos at all? Do zoos have a job to do, apart from entertaining us? Is it cruel to keep wild animals behind bars? And why is so much trouble taken to breed them?
Actor Tom Baker talks to Sue Cook about his decision to leave Doctor Who
Celtic Connections: Julius Caesar called the Celts ' one of the three great barbarian races'. Nationwide's 20th-century Celtic journey takes reporter Bill Kerr Elliott from the coasts of Brittany to the Scottish Isles, and from Cornwall and Carmarthen to County Donegal. He discovers how the Celts have survived the ravages of time and foreign invasions, and what they have contributed to life in Britain - past and present. 1: What's in a Name? and Grass Roots, presented this week by Gillian Miles from Spotlight South West in Plymouth.
Nationwide reporter Bill Kerr Elliott continues his 20th-century journey, discovering the contribution of the Celts to life in Britain. ' Play it again SeSn ' - Celts have always loved their music . -. and today it's still one of the strongest links between the Celtic people. and Grass Roots: presented this week by Alan Towers from Midlands Today in Birmingham.
Christmas on Nationwide in which James Hogg rummages through the Nationwide archives to search out the programme's great Christmas moments over the past years.
Christmas on Nationwide
Including
Celtic Connections
Julius Caesar called the Celts ' one of the three great barbarian races'. Nationwide's 20th-century Celtic journey takes reporter Bill Kerr Elliott from the coasts of Brittany to the Scottish Isles, and from Cornwall and Carmarthen to County Donegal. 3: On the Fringe and Grass Roots: presented this week by Mike Neville from Look North in Newcastle.
Tonight Nationwide hands over the airwaves to young viewers and gives them a chance to write, report and present the programme. And at 6.45 Sportswide with Desmond Lynam
The Duke and Duchess of Devon-shire throw open the doors of Chatsworth in Derbyshire, one of England's finest stately homes, for the climax of Nationwide's Operation Christmas appeal.
Over 100 needy old people and children will be given the ' royal' treatment in the magnificent setting of Chatsworth's Painted Hall. Frankie Howerd , The Spinners, Ray Alan and Lord Charles, a Salvation Army band and other surprise guests keep the party going as Frank Bough and Sue Cook present Operation Christmas reports from around the nation.
