with Ted Ray
Today: Ted Ray tells a traditional story for Christmas Eve called The Little Juggler
...told to the infants class of a Dorset village school by the head teacher, and acted by the older children from St. Mary's Church. Cerne Abbas
from the South and West
Students from the University of York take a look at some aspects of the Christmas festival.
Armed with a film camera the students were invited to make their own programme; to look at any facets of Christmas they chose.
Christopher Chataway discusses some of the points raised in this film.
from the North
Written and produced by Robert Youngson.
Some great moments with the screen's most famous laughter-makers.
Including: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Harry Langdon, Ben Turpin, Fatty Arbuckle, Charlie Chase, Chester Conklin, Andy Clyde, Billy Bevan, Gloria Swanson, Mabel Normand, Wallace Beery, Snub Pollard
(First shown on BBC-2)
For the very young
[Repeat]
The spectacular adventure film
starring Errol Flynn as the Pirate Captain
with Olivia De Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Lionel Atwill
Dr. Peter Blood, innocently condemned to a life of slavery in the West Indies, escapes to become the most famous pirate in history.
A comedy film series starring Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha, Dick York as Darrin, Agnes Moorehead as Endora
Humbug Not Spoken Here ...or Santa will sleigh you!
A special Christmas edition
A programme for children under five
Today's story: 'The Lost Tambourine'
Shown at 11.0 a.m. on BBC-2
Hans Andersen's Christmas story retold for television
Starring Gene Kelly
The famous seasonal fairy story with music
The fantasy of a cartoon giant who threatens a flesh-and-blood pedlar and his young friend.
(First shown on BBC-2)
Graham Parker
Introduced by John Bierman
A Service of Lessons and Carols from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge
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Processional Hymn
Once in Royal David's city (H. J. Gauntlett)
Bidding: The Dean
Carol
Up! good Christen folk, and listen
(Piae Cantiones, 1582)
First Lesson
Isaiah 52, vv. 7-10
Reader: A Chorister
Carol
A spotless rose (Herbert Howells)
Second Lesson
St. Luke I, vv. 26-35, 38
Reader: A Choral Scholar
Carol
The angel Gabriel from heaven came (Old Basque)
Third Lesson
St. Luke 2, vv. 1, 3-7
Reader: The Chaplain
Carol
A Virgin most pure (trad. English)
Fourth Lesson
St. Luke 2, vv. 8-16
Reader: The Director of Music
Carol
The shepherd's cradle song (Charles Macpherson)
Hymn
O come, all ye faithful (J. F. Wade)
Fifth Lesson
St. Matthew 2, vv. 1, 2, 7-11
Reader: The Dean
Carol
The Three Kings (P. Cornelius)
The Lord's Prayer and Blessing
Hymn
O little town of Bethlehem (Vaughan Williams)
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See colour feature on centre pages
by David Ellis
starring James Ellis, John Slater, John Woodvine
with Paul Angelis, Ron Davies, Bernard Holley
Excerpts from the 1968 production with a cast of 120 members of the Scout and Guide Movement presented by The Scout Association
Recorded before an invited audience at The Odeon, Golders Green
The Gang Show has always had an all-male cast-till this year when the Scout Association invited members of the Girl Guides Association and Girl Cub Scout leaders to take part. The girls have made a terrific impact. Their standard was so high that already one of the leading singers has been offered a professional contract as principal girl in a London pantomime.
The first of a new series starring Cilla Black
Among her guest stars, Michael Crawford, Shari Lewis
and Special guest, Scott Walker
The Irving Davies Dancers
with Richard Baker
and The Weather
by N.C. Hunter
[Starring] Margaret Leighton
also starring Athene Seyler, Vivien Merchant, Kathleen Harrison, Michael Gwynn, Roland Culver
A handful of guests live in a small, remote hotel on the edge of Dartmoor. It is the end of December, and snow is thick on the ground. Helen and Robert Lancaster and their daughter, finding themselves stranded, descend on this quiet backwater and upset it thoroughly.
Gerald Harrison asks children from the Bolton and Nelson areas of Lancashire about
Going to the Moon.
"They say its green cheese, but I don't think it is, not by its colour, anyway". A nine-year-old
"We would stay 200 years, then come back to Mummy and Daddy". A five-year-old
"I would spend my last day on earth reading Custer's Last Stand. It would refresh my mind". An eight-year-old
(from the North)
An opera in one act
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Chorus-Master, John McCarthy
Donare Dance Troupe
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Led by Ernest Scott
(First shown on BBC-2)
(Forbes Robinson appears by arrangement with The General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden; Don Garrard by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera)
This is the touching story of a crippled shepherd boy and his mother who are visited by the Three Kings on their journey to Bethlehem.
from St. George's Parish Church, Belfast
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