An entertainment for Christmas morning
Sung by the Choir of East Barnet Grammar School
Chorus-Master, Dennis Todd
Movement by the New College Junior Drama Club
Directed by Pauline Stuart
An outside broadcast

with John Stride
Today: John Stride tells 'The Minstrel and the Mountain' a story of peace by Jane Yolen

Some enchanting questions for enquiring minds asked by Professor Julius Sumner Miller on walking toys, singing toys, swimming toys, flying toys
Do you own a toy? Did you ever own a toy? Then Julius ('Walt Disney called me a genius') Sumner Miller can provide a few scientific questions to worry you with.
First shown on BBC-2

What would you like to see? Whom do you want to meet? Where would you like to go?
Keith Macklin and Sheila Tracy introduce a special edition from The Yorkshire Home, Harrogate
The patients from this home for disabled women will be meeting, talking, and listening to famous personalities of their own choice including Norman Wisdom, Moira Anderson, Simon Woolf
from the North

for Christmas Morning
from The Methodist Church, Solihull, Warwickshire
Conducted by the Minister, The Rev. Brian Greet
Introduced by Philip Turner

Appropriately for Christmas morning, this service from the modern Methodist church in Solihull is very much a family affair. The children are encouraged to bring Christmas presents to church with them as an act of thanks-giving; and they, together with young people and adults, will be helping the minister with this Christmas act of worship.

in hospital at Christmas
with Ray Alan
and Tony Hart, The Bert Hayes Trio, Tich and Quackers, Gus and Jaq from Walt Disney's 'Cinderella', A Chimp called Charlie from Longleat
An outside broadcast direct from Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Surrey

Starring Charlie Drake
with Henry McGee, The Satin Bells, Flight Four, The George Mitchell Singers, The Show Dancers, Leslie Dwyer, Doremy Vernon, Dorothy Darke
First shown on BBC-2

Christmas Day in Angleton: Vivienne goes to see Toby Smith; the Kerrs entertain their friends; Sydney has a solution to Turner's accommodation problem.
From the Midlands
(For cast list see page 55)

This year's top pops including discs by:

Louis Armstrong, The Beatles, Georgie Fame, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Love Affair, Manfred Mann, Esther and Abi Ofarim, Cliff Richard, The Rolling Stones, The Union Gap
Introduced by Pete Murray and Jimmy Savile
Top of the Pops Orchestra
Conducted by Johnny Pearson
(Part 2: tomorrow at 6.35 p.m.)

Starring The Mitchell Minstrels
with John Boulter, Dai Francis, Tony Mercer
Guest star, Semprini
also starring Margaret Savage, The Television Toppers, Delia Wicks, Don Cleaver,
Penny Jewkes, Les Rawlings, Sheila Bernette, Peter Glaze

(Leslie Crowther is appearing in "Let Sleeping Wives Lie" at the Garrick Theatre, London; The Black and White Minstrel Show is at the Victoria Palace, London, and at the King's Theatre, Edinburgh)

Her Majesty's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
Also on BBC-2 in colour

From the Big Top of the world's greatest tenting show
A Gala Performance for Europe
starring:
Berosini (U.S.A.)
Swings by his heels on the high trapeze

The Caroli Riders (Italy)
The world's largest trick-riding troupe

Ten Tisza (Hungary)
State Circus springboard sensation

Krenzola's Animal Revue (Germany)
with fox and goose, cat and dog, parrots and pigeons

El Grupo Rodriguez (Mexico)
Olympians of the triple bar

The Francesco Clowns (Italy)
Superb slapstick comedy and music

Armand Elleano (France)
Wire-walker extraordinary

Swinging Elephants
presented by Billy Smart Jr. featuring 15-elephant pyramid

The Flying Oslers (South Africa)
Four daring young men on the flying trapeze

Also in the Big Top:
Ria Roberti, Don Saunders Clown, Maxo, Toto and Co., Mike Tucker, Ringmaster Dick Barton
Circus Direction by the Smart brothers Ronnie, David and Billy Smart
Show introduced by John Witty

Music and comedy are the themes of this year's Christmas Walt Disney programme introduced by Val Doonican.
With scenes from: Bambi, Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Donald's Snow Fight, The Happiest Millionaire, Never A Dull Moment, Cinderella
Films by courtesy of Walt Disney Productions

Original book by David Croft and Phil Park
Adapted for television by David Cumming
Starring Leslie Crowther as Humpty Dumpty and Reg Varney as Simple Simon
with Ken Platt as The King of Hearts, Lynda Baron as Tommy Tucker, Sally Smith as Mary Mary, Alan Curtis as Grimm, Kathleen West as The Queen of Hearts, Max Latimer as The Ogre, Iris Sadler as Mother Goose, Kay Lyell as Priscilla the Goose, Barrie Dupres as The Knave
with The Roy Gunson Dancers and The George Mitchell Singers

(Leslie Crowther is appearing in 'Let Sleeping Wives Lie' at the Garrick Theatre, London; Lynda Baron is at the Carousel, Piccadilly, London; Sally Smith is in 'Cinderella' at the Hippodrome, Bristol; Alan Curtis in 'Babes in the Wood' at the Odeon, Golders Green; Kathleen West in 'Humpty Dumpty' at the Coventry Theatre; Max Latimer in 'Where the Rainbow Ends' at the Intimate Theatre, Palmers Green)
See colour feature on centre pages

A Christmas Appeal by Judi Dench
If Christ were to be born again into poverty, where could it be? The answer is, surely, almost anywhere.
From Bethlehem, Judi Dench relates the first Christmas to our world in 1968. Donations, preferably by crossed postal order or cheque, to: Christian Aid, [address removed]

A specially recorded programme featuring stars of BBC Light Entertainment in 1968

(Petula Clark appears by courtesy of M.G.M. Pictures; Derek Nimmo is appearing in "Charlie Girl" at the Adelphi Theatre; Robertson Hare is in "Oh Clarence!" at the Lyric Theatre, London)
See columns 1, 2, and 3 and colour feature on centre pages

[Photo caption] Top row l. to r.: Cliff Richard, Morecambe and Wise, The Seekers. Reading downwards: Harry Worth, Jimmy Logan, Ray Alan, Derek Nimmo, Louis Armstrong, Kenneth McKellar, and Marty Feldman

Christmas Night with the Stars
A specially recorded programme featuring stars of BBC Light Entertainment in 1968

Introduced by Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise

Louis Armstrong, Petula Clark, Rolf Harris, Jimmy Logan, Lulu, Kenneth McKellar, Nana Mouskouri, Cliff Richard, The Seekers, The Young Generation (Choreography Douglas Squires)

Not In Front of the Children
by Richard Waring
Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer and Ronald Hines as Henry
with Frances Rowe as Mother

Dad's Army
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn
Featuring John Laurie, James Beck, Arnold Ridley, Ian Lavender and Edward Sinclair

Harry Worth
with Derek Francis

Ice Cabaret
Introduced by Ray Alan
Featuring Reg Park, Michel and Carol, Sally Ross, Janet Mahoney, The Ice Cabaret Dancers, The Fred Tomlinson Singers
Presented in association with Tom Arnold and Gerald Palmer

Marty Feldman sings a song of Christmas
with the Ealing Grammar School Boys' Choir

Oh Brother! All Gas and Gaiters
Starring Derek Nimmo, Felix Aylmer, Robertson Hare, Colin Gordon, William Mervyn, Geoffrey Hibbert, Ernest Clark, Patrick McAlinney

Starring Ken Dodd
Special guest appearances of Graham Stark, Patricia Hayes, Dermot Kelly
with Senor Wences, The New Faces, Judith Chalmers, Norman Caley, Jennifer Lowe, Doddy's Diddymen, Children of Ryebank School
and A collection of Doddy-Oddities
with Peter Barbour's Beanstalks, Henry Vadden, Watneys Silver Band, Joe Gandy's Circus, The Barking Playleader Drum Majorettes, The Knotty Ash State Dancer, Phil 'Fazakerley' Kernott, Arthur Johnson (tenor), Collins and Lopez, Cuthbert Braben,
The Icky the Firebobby Singers, Little Jimmy (from Pegrams), Ken's Cutie-Girls

(Ken Dodd is appearing in "Dick Whittington" at the Palace Theatre, Manchester)

starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown

Chicago, 1929, at the height of the Prohibition era. Two jazz musicians witness the St. Valentine's day killings and flee for their lives-by joining an all-girl orchestra!

with Robert Langley
followed by The Weather Man
Bert Foord

Ned Sherrin tests the wits and memories of rival teams, who might be expected to know what's been going on in 1968.
Richard Ingrams, William Rushton, John Wells of Private Eye magazine are challenged by Linda Blandford, Mary Kenny, Neil Shand
with sketches acted by Miriam Margolyes, Malcolm Ingram

And anone the oxe and the asse, knelynge doun leyden her mouthes on the cracche, brethynge uppon the child, as they knowen by resoun that in that colde tyme the childe had nede to be hatte in that manere.
Extracts from St. Bonaventura's Life of Jesus read by Olive Gregg

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