gydag Owen Edwards.
Topical items in Welsh introduced by Owen Edwards.
(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Holme Moss, Wenvoe West)
For the very young
David Enders tells the story.
Sam and Elizabeth Williams make the pictures
BBC film
A holiday selection from the BBC's regular service for schools, of special interest to teachers, parents, and children.
1.45 Signpost: The Wind's resting place
A preview of one of next term's programmes about aspects of life in New
Zealand to be presented in this series for Primary Schools.
2.5 Primary School Mathematics: Patterns for Numbers
1, 1 + 3, 1 + 3 + 5-this sequence of numbers gives a shape. Why?
Introduced by Jim Boucher.
(to 14.25)
with Brian Way
Today's Christmas stories are about Bells.
with Christopher Trace and Valerie Singleton.
A film from Czechoslovakia.
The Proud Princess continues her flight from her father's kingdom with the disguised King Miroslav.
English narrative spoken by Leigh Crutchley.
Written and told by Eric Thompson.
A film series from France.
News and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Corbet Woodall.
Followed by The Weather
Written and directed by John Irving.
An archaeological expedition's search for Neanderthal Man in North-Western Greece ended in a mountain gorge occupied by modern man and his extinct predecessor from at least 25,000 B.C.
Commentary spoken by Frank Duncan.
A new look at Britain's best-sellers.
Discs - Stars - News from this week's Top Twenty.
Introduced tonight by Peter Murray.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is there - where he is needed - when he is needed - from the organisation dedicated to the world-wide fight against crime and subversion.
A film series.
Starring Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo, David McCallum as Illya Kuryakin and Leo G. Carroll as Mr. Waverly
The Foxes and Hounds Affair in which U.N.C.L.E. uses his I.Q. but loses his H.Q.
A new series in which he also performs each week a new song specially written for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Written and produced by Roy Battersby.
Introduced by Raymond Baxter.
The artificial man; Twins by choice; How many angels on a pin-head?; The origin of the universe; Life elsewhere than earth; An astronaut on the sea bed for thirty days
Film, outside broadcast, and studio coverage of some of the outstanding achievements by scientists in 1965.
10.50-11.15 The Cable Layers
The development of world communications.
(Rowridge, Brighton)
10.50-11.20 Soldier From the Wars Returning
Play by David Campton
11.20 Weather; Road Works; Close
(Peterborough, Manningtree)
Round the clock and round the world with up-to-the-minute coverage of what matters today.
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore with Kenneth Allsop.
Round 24 hours with Ian Trethowan, Robin Day, Robert McKenzie
Round 24,000 miles with Fyfe Robertson, Julian Pettifer, Michael Barratt
and the Twenty-Four Hours correspondents
Featuring one of the world's top cabaret artists.
Tonight Mr Greco sings The Most Beautiful Girl; But Not for Me; Fly Me to the Moon; Around the World; Who Can I Turn To?; Like Young; The Lady is a Tramp
and features on piano with the orchestra Tenderly.
Buddy Greco
stars in his own show tonight on BBC-1 at 10.50
It is a rather dubious honour to become known as a 'musician's musician.' On the one hand you can enjoy the respect of your professional colleagues, but at the same time you tend to remain relatively unknown to the ordinary cash customers - and professional esteem does not pay many bills... It was the fate of Buddy Greco, who stars in his own show tonight, to spend fifteen years in this limbo.
As a schoolboy in Philadelphia he formed his own vocal-instrumental group, and by the time he was eighteen he had made his first record, a song called' Ooh, Looka There, Ain't She Pretty.' It sold a million, but did not rocket him to fame. Nevertheless, he was picked out by Benny Goodman, who hired him as a singer-pianist-arranger, and he stayed with Goodman until the latter's semi-retirement in 1951. He then appeared in an early television spectacular series and worked the smaller night clubs with his own group. His personal following by now included such fellow-artists as Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, but real popular success still eluded him.
So in 1960 he made his big decision to try a new act. He abandoned his static songs-at-the-piano routine in favour of a 'stand-up' technique roving among his audience with a microphone. This worked the trick at once, and Buddy Greco was at last everyman's musician - the artist you can see in action tonight, singing numbers which range from his big hit 'Around the World' to the evergreen 'The Lady is a Tramp.'
