For viewers from Pakistan and India.
including
Look, Listen, and Speak: Lesson 37

(From the Midlands)
(Crystal Palace, Sutton Coldfield, Peterborough, Tacolneston, Cambridge, All North Transmitters (Except Sandale and Douglas), Kirk O'Shotts, Divis, Londonderry, Wenvoe West, Rowridge)

Peter Walker

Christmas is for children, and without them the festival loses much of its joy
But how do the children see it themselves? What do they think of it, what do they enjoy most about it? How do they regard their parents, relations, and adult friends?
From the South and West

by Alison Uttley.
Today: Dandy Nichols pays a special visit to tell The Christmas Tale of Sam Pig

...and thereby hangs a tale of a puppy's attempts to find a home.
A real-life story filmed by Walt Disney.

A Reading of Percy Dearmer 1867-1936
from Keswick Hall College of Education, Norwich.
With The Rev. John Gibbs, Peter Miller, Peter Spalding, Jack Bull, David Ogilvie and Students of the College
Conductor, Geoffrey Laycock

A Western film series.
A family of five youngsters face the challenge of the new frontiers in the raw and uncompromising Wyoming territory of the 1870s.

Teaching school in the wild West is a far tougher job than any cowboy's - as Kathy finds out!

A Halas and Batchelor cartoon.
A hilarious cartoon version of the epic ride undertaken by that worthy citizen Mr. Gilpin on a runaway horse.

Highlights of laughter from the studios of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach featuring many famous comedians of the 1920s.
Including: Laurel and Hardy, Will Rogers, Ben Turpin, Harry Langdon and Charlie Chase, Andy Clyde, Charlie Murray, Billy Bevan

and The Weather for farmers and growers

featuring Sooty and Sweep assisted by Harry Corbett.
From the North
(Harry Corbett is appearing at the May Fair Theatre, London)

Starring Freddie Bartholomew as David - the boy; W. C. Fields as Mr. Micawber
with Lionel Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan

George Cukor's star-studded version of Charles Dickens's best known novel.

The Sadler's Wells production of the ever-popular masterpiece by Engelbert Humperdinck.
Text by Adelheid Wette.
English translation by Constance Bache.
With children from the Beaufoy and Mary Datchelor Schools

(See facing page)

by Victor Hugo.
Dramatised in ten parts by Giles Cooper and Harry Green.

"From the day she told me she knew and loved you, I knew my life was over."
(Frank Finlay is a National Theatre Player)

Peter Walker

A play by Charles Williams.
Adapted for television by Richard Martin.
BBC film
See page 15

A Service of Lessons and Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

Chorale: Zion hears her watchmen's voices (Bach)
Bidding: The Dean
Processional Hymn: Once in royal David's city (H. J. Gauntlett)
First Lesson: The birth of Jesus, St. Luke 2. vv. 1 and 3-7
Reader: A Chorister
Carols
On Christmas night all Christians sing (trad. English)
Unto us is born a Son (trad. English)
Second Lesson: The shepherds go to the manger, St. Luke 2, vv. 8-16
Reader: A Choral Scholar
Carols
Sing Lullaby (Basque Noel)
Jesus Christ, the Apple Tree (Elizabeth Poston )
Third Lesson: The Wise Men are led by the star to Jesus, St. Matthew 2, vv. 1, 2, 7-11
Reader: The Director of Music
Processional Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (J. T. Wade)
Fourth Lesson :St. John unfolds the great mystery of the Incarnation, St John 1, vv. 1-14
Reader: The Dean
The Lord's Prayer
Chorale: In Dulci; Jubilo (Bach)

by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert, Harry H. Corbett as Harold
featuring Alan Gifford and Frank Thornton
with Sidonie Bond, Frederick Schiller, Catharina Ferraz, Tim Buckland
See page 16

Harold agrees to take Albert to France to revisit the battlefields where he fought during the First World War. However, the plane journey there does not go according to plan. Show more

by Harry Green.
Created by A.J. Cronin.
Starring Andrew Cruickshank, Barbara Mullen, Bill Simpson
with Patricia Heneghan, David Sumner

with Richard Baker

followed by The Weather

Starring Ingrid Bergman, Curt Jurgens, Robert Donat

from Stamford.
Sir Malcolm Sargent's carol arrangements.
Introduced by his grandson Simon Sargent.
Royal Choral Society
Choir of Stamford School
From All Saints Church, Stamford.
Sir Malcolm Sargent was educated at Stamford School and in his youth was a church organist in this Lincolnshire town.

from the Roman Catholic Church of St. Alban and St. Stephen St. Albans, Hertfordshire.
Readings: Titus 2, 11-16; Luke 2, 1-14
Music:
O come all ye faithful
The fruitful seed of Jesse
O God we give ourselves today
Angels we have heard in heaven
He smiles within his cradle
The action of the Mass described by Fr. Agnellus Andrew, O.F.M.