Charles E. Stidwill tells the story.
BBC film
(to 11.00)

gydag Owen Edwards.
Topical items in Welsh.
(Crystal Palace, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield)

Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
BBC film
(to 13.45)

"An extraordinarily vivid picture of a perennially enigmatic figure". (Sunday Times)
Written and narrated by David Lytton.

With Lawrence's original photographs, the drawings of Eric Kennington, the photographs and mementos of friends and memories of the man from:
His brother, Professor A. W. Lawrence, Sir Alec Kirkbride, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., O.B.E., Air Commodore and Mrs. Sydney Smith, Lowell Thomas, Jock Chambers, Pat Knowles, Mrs. Celandine Kennington, Fareedeh el Akle and many others.
(First transmission on Nov. 27, 1962)

Because he wanted to carve in wood, a boy set out for Cracow, the greatest town in medieval Poland, and began the most exciting adventure of his life.
A film from Poland.

News and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Richard Baker.
followed by The Weather

A cartoon musical based on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Adapted by Barbara Chain.

Starring Mr. Magoo as Scrooge
with the voice of Jim Backus as Scrooge
Also featuring the voices of: Morey Amsterdam, Jack Cassidy, Royal Dano, Jane Kean, Joan Gardner

See page 39

[Starring] The Beatles, The Dave Clark Five, The Searchers, Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Peter and Gordon, The Four Pennies, Roy Orbison, The Animals, Manfred Mann, The Honeycombs, The Kinks, Herman's Hermits, Sandie Shaw, The Supremes
With Jimmy Savile, David Jacobs, Alan Freeman, Peter Murray.

(See page 39)

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Frankie Howerd stars in a series of unlikely situations.
Featuring this week: Colin Gordon, Anthony Sharp, Len Lowe, Alec Bregonzi, Don Smoothey, Stella Kemball
(Frankie Howerd is appearing in "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at the Strand Theatre, London)

Starring Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire
with Marjorie Reynolds
See page 39

followed by The Weather

from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
A programme for the Eve of Christ's Nativity.

Hymn: Once in royal David's city (H. J. Gauntlett)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: On Christmas night all Christians sing (trad. English)
First Lesson: Genesis 3. vv. 8-15
The Fall
read by A Chorister.
Carol: This is the truth sent from above (trad English)
Second Lesson: Isaiah 9, vv. 2, 6, and 7
Christ's Birth and Kingdom are foretold by Isaiah
read by A Choral Scholar.
Carol: Ding dong! merrily on high (16th century French)
Third Lesson: St. Luke 1, vv. 26-35, and 38
The Angel Gabriel visits the Blessed Virgin Mary
read by The Director of Music.
Carol: The angel Gabriel from heaven came (Old Basque)
Fourth Lesson: St. Luke 2. vv. 1, and 3-7
St. Luke tells of the birth of Jesus
read by The Lay Dean.
Carols: A Virgin most pure (trad. English)
Lullay, my liking (Gustav Holst)
Fifth Lesson: St. Luke 2, vv. 8-16
The shepherds go to the manger
read by The Dean.
Carol: In the oleak mid-winter (Harold Darke)
Sixth Lesson: 1 John 4. vv. 7-11
St. John exhorts us to love one another
read by The Vice-Provost.
The Collect; The Blessing
Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (18th century)

(To be repeated on BBC-2, Christmas Day at 4.25)
(See page 37)

from the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe. Bristol.
Celebrant, the Vicar, The Rev Canon R. F. Cartwright
Hymns (taken from English Hymnal):
O come, all ye faithful
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
O little town of Bethlehem
Hark! the herald angels sing
The service sung to the music of Merbecke and Stanford Readings during the Communion of the People by Douglas Leach.