Christmas Eve Mass from St Dunstan's Church, King's Heath, Birmingham
Preacher: The Archbishop of Birmingham The Most Rev George Patrick Dwyer, DD, PhD, BA
The action of the Mass is described by Fr John Thompson
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A cartoon version of Charles Dickens's Story of Ebenezer Scrooge, in the style of the original illustrations by 'Phiz.'

Every word in this production of the most seasonal of Christmas stories is as written. Nearly a year in the making, involving some 30,000 drawings, the animators based their sketches on 19th-century London after months of research. Such care was taken to achieve the maximum authenticity that even the bells used were actually ringing in Dickens's days.
With the voices of Alastair Sim as Scrooge, Michael Hordern as Marley's Ghost
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A film by Hugh Burnett

The tourists and pilgrims scatter across the countryside around Jerusalem in search of the shrines of three of the world's great religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
This film goes with them - into the Tomb of Christ, to the site of Calvary, and the Ascension, to the Dome of the Rock where Mohammed left his footprint in the stone and the Tomb of Abraham where Jews and Arabs worship side by side.

[Repeat]
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Introduced by Michael Flanders
Conducted by Anton Neyder
sing:
The Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
The Blue Danube
Three Austrian Folk Songs
Wiegenlied
Pueri Concinite
and traditional Christmas Carols

There are several groups of Vienna Boys all drawn from the same choir school. One is always on holiday, while one or more tours the world.
And one is on duty each Sunday at the Imperial Chapel in Vienna, as it has been since the choir was founded by special decree of Emperor Maximilian I on 7 July 1498.

(First shown on BBC2)
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Brilliant and hilarious highlights of laughter from the studios of Mack Sennett and Hal Roach, featuring the most famous comedians of the 1920s: Laurel and Hardy, Harry Langdon, Will Rogers, Ben Turpin, Charlie Chase, Andy Clyde, Billy Bevan, Charlie Murray not to mention Cameo, the wonder dog.

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A Guided Tour of our Spectacular Planet with Joyce Grenfell, Kenneth Allsop, David Attenborough and Tony Soper

As our four guides cross the globe from Alaska to Australia they find fascinating places with weird and wonderful wildlife including the 'Lost World' of the Amazon jungle with the world's highest waterfall, the fabulous 'firebirds' of the Caribbean, the new volcanic island of Surtsey, the huge seabird cities of Scotland, spring flowers in the Alps, giant plants on Mount Kenya, the mysterious bongo, the Empty Quarter of the Arabian desert, the jungles and swamps of Borneo with the rare proboscis monkey, and in Australia thousands of budgerigars and the world's biggest fish on the Great Barrier Reef.
How would all this strike a visitor from outer space? Astronaut Captain James Lovell of Apollo 8 and 13 gives his view.
(from Bristol)
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A Christmas selection of Walt Disney films.
Introduced by Rolf Harris from the Odeon, Leicester Square at the Disney Children's Annual Christmas Party: with scenes from Snow White, Peter and the Wolf, Cinderella, Mickey Mouse, Bear Country, Darby O'Gill and the Little People and a new film, Snowball Express
(Disney Dreamland: Tuesday-Friday, 1.30 pm Radio 2)
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Adrian suffers from muscular dystrophy. He needs to be lifted at least ten times a day. But no matter how great the handicap, some progress is possible. And he is now a pupil at Princess Margaret's, a Barnardo Special School for disabled children, where they help each other and in doing so help themselves.

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The story of Jesus told in pictures.

from Lincoln Cathedral
Christmas music and readings to mark the 900th Anniversary of the founding of Lincoln Cathedral
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

London Symphony Orchestra Brass Ensemble
with James Lancelot (organ)

O come, all ye faithful
Creator of the stars of night
Up! Good christen folk, and listen
Hora Decima No 14
Reading: St Luke 1
The Cherry tree carol
Reading: St Luke 2
The Blessed Son of God
Reading: St Luke 2
A Virgin most pure
Canzon septimi toni No 2
Shepherds in the field abiding
Reading: St Matthew 2
In the bleak mid-winter
Hark!- the herald angels sing

(Singing joy to the world: page 6)
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Starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris

Winner of ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture of the Year, "West Side Story" tells the story of two young lovers - a modern Romeo and Juliet - who find themselves caught in the crossfire between two rival New York gangs, the Jets and the Sharks.

(Christmas Films: pages 17-19)
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with Peter Woods
Weather
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