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With JOHN DRYDEN , TINA HEATH JILL SHAKESPEARE , GLEN STUART
God is with us! The gang discover the real meaning of Christmas.
Music DAVE COOK. Designer MEL BIBBY Director NORMAN STONE Producer DAVID BROWN
Executive producer STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Manchester

A magazine for Asian viewers Produced and presented by MAHENDRA KAI 'L
Directed by ASHOK RAMPAL BBC Birmingham

A feature film starring Danny Kaye
with Farley Granger, Jeanmaire

Danny Kaye is perfectly cast as the Danish cobbler who entertains the children of his village with his fairytales; tales that have charmed succeeding generations of children throughout the world.

Films: pp 16-17

Because One Child is Born
There were many children born that year, but Christmas remembers the birth of only one, Jesus Christ , in Bethlehem.
SYLVIA READ and WILLIAM FRY of Theatre Roundabout, with THE THOMAS MORE CONSORT conducted by KEVIN BREEN , join RAYMOND SHORT in an act of worship which celebrates the mood and meaning of Christmas.
Director LESLIE MITCHELL

Holiday Weatherman

A feature film starring John Wayne When Chisum discovers that a crooked businessman is trying to take over his vast cattle empire, the stage is set for a full-scale range war.
Screenplay by ANDREW J. FENADY Produced by ANDREW J. FENADY
Directed by ANDREW V. MCLAGLEN Films: panes 16-17

by Carlo Collodi. Dramatised in four parts by Alec Drysdale.
Starring Derek Smith as Geppetto, Rhoda Lewis as the Blue Fairy with Roy Macready as the Fox, Neil Fitzwilliam as the Cat and Pinocchio's voice by Rosemary Miller

Betrayed to the evil wagondriver by Mr Fox and Mr Cat, Pinocchio has departed with his school-fellows for the Land of Toys.
Pinocchio created by Theatre of Puppets

with Angela Rippon Weather JACK SCOTT

appeals on behalf of the Samaritans whose 20,000 volunteers support the suicidal, despairing and lonely by listening and befriending. They maintain a 24-hour, confidential free service in 168 branches throughout the country.
Donations, preferably by crossed po or cheque, to: Dame Margot Fonteyn , The Samaritans, [address removed]

from the books by JAMES HERRIOT The last of 14 episodes starring and with Peter Davison and Carol Drinkwater Merry Gentlemen adapted by ANTHONY STEVEN
Tricki-Woo, overfed by Mrs Pum phrey again, feels ill and is nursed back to health by Helen - which provides the inevitable hamper-a welcome addition at any time, but especially at Christmas. But Christmas at Skeldale House, with carols, holly and mistletoe, can be a strange experience.
Music composed by JOHNNY PEARSON Film cameraman KEN MORGAN Designer DAVID CROZIER Producer BILL SELLARS
Directed by CHRISTOPHER BARRY BBC Birmingham

starring
Charlton Heston , Sophia Loren with Gary Raymond , Raf Vallone Genevieve Page , John Fraser
A spectacular epic of 11th-century Spain when the country was divided between small Christian kingdoms and Moorish strong-holds. From the confusion of warring factions there emerged an intrepid knight whose exploits earn him the name El Cid - ' the lord.'
Produced by SAMUEL BRONSTON
Director ANTHONY MANN. Films: pp 16-17

with Angela Rippon ; Weather

Andre Previn introduces and conducts the London Symphony Orchestra leader IRVINE ARDITTI
Benjamin Luxon (baritone) Robert Tear (tenor) Peter Lloyd (flute) Osian Ellis (harp) Judi Dench and Simon Carney (winner of this year's Choirboy of the Year competition) in a music and verse programme.
Lighting PETER WINN. Sound ALAN EDMONDS Designer DAPHNE SHORTMAN
Produced by IAN ENGELMANN

from St Mary's Church, Selly Oak. Birmingham.
Celebrant and preacher the Bishop of Birmingham
THE RT REV HUGH MONTEFIORE Assisted by the Vicar
THE REV JOHN WATERSTREET
Setting of the Series III Communion Service by PATRICK APPLEFORD
Organist LESLIE BARKER
Television presentation michael SHOESMTTH BBC Birmingham