Bod and Breakfast

The Princess Who Couldn't Laugh by PHILIP GLASSBOROW based on a story by A. A. MILNE
Producer ANGELA BEECHING
Director PIONA CUMMING

take a look at Christmas. J.D. tells how it all began, with a report from Nazareth and Bethlehem. with ALISON CHRISTIE-MURRAY , JOHN DRYDEN , JILL SHAKESPEARE , GLEN STUART. Special guest Dana
Director CYRIL GATES
Associate producer NORMAN STONE Producer DAVID BROWN
Executive producer STEPHEN WHITTLE BBC Manchester

Produced and presented by MAHENDRA KAUL
Director KRISHAN GOULD. BBC Birmingham

by SANDRO BOTTICELLI
A programme about one of Botticelli's finest pictures, now hanging in the National Gallery, London. Written and presented by Edwin Mullins
Painted in Florence about 1500, the Mystic Nativity is a remarkable blend of the natural and supernatural in which the Virgin and Child in the humble manger are surrounded by an astonishing variety of humans and angels. But an incomplete inscription has puzzled people for centuries and Edwin Mullins offers a possible solution.
Producer BILL MORTON
Director KENNETH CORDEN

The world of the choir boys of St Paul's Cathedral may have its roots in the Middle Ages - like their nickname ' Paul's Children ' - but it still means a life of dedication and very hard work for 38 boys from the age of eight. Everyman explores this little-known world from audition day to special performances before HM The Queen Mother, through a typical day starting at seven in the morning to the glories of Christmas carols in the Cathedral.
Master of the Choristers BARRY ROSE
Film editor MICHAEL ALOOF
Producer PETER ARMSTRONG

The feature film starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen Bing Crosby made the title song of this most famous of Christmas movies particularly his own.
Crosby and Danny Kaye play two army buddies who team up in a song-and-dance-act after the war. Soon there is romance in the air with the glamorous Haynes sisters.
Films: pages 16-17

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
A performance by The Royal Ballet of the world-famous fairytale set to music by PROKOFIEV with production and choreography by FREDERICK ASHTON starring
Artists Of THE ROYAL BALLET
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE. leader JOHN BROWN conducted by Ashley Lawrence Designed by HENRY BARDON Costumes by DAVID WALKER
Introduced by RICHARD BAKER
Sound GRAHAM HAINES Lighting JOHN WILSON
Directed by BRIAN LARGE

by Charles Dickens, dramatised in nine parts by William Trevor
The Single Gentleman has obtained lodgings with Sampson Brass. Quilp has marked out Dick Swiveller as an ally, and Kit has met the Garlands.

Third episode of adaptation of Dickens' classic novel. Quilp has marked out Dick Swiveller as an ally. Kit has met the Garlands.

Kenneth Kendall ; Weatherman

A unique Songs of Praise visit to West Berlin where choirs of the British, French and American forces based in the city join with the Choir of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church for their annual Christmas service.
Geoffrey Wheeler has been talking to people living there whose duties mean Christmas away from home, conductor MARCUS CREED Organist THOMAS TROTTER
Sound VIC GODRICH , HERBERT KANIA Lighting HU CARTWRIGHT Film director JIM MURRAY
Series producer ANDREW BARR

The feature film starring Gene Hackman
Ernest Borgnine , Red Buttons Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall Stella Stevens , Shelley Winters
Heedless of mountainous seas and worsening weather, the passengers aboard the huge liner Poseidon celebrate New Year's Eve in traditional fashion until their festivities are literally turned upside-down. A freak wave has capsized the ship and for the small band of survivors of the initial disaster, the question is - can they escape from the floating death trap before it sinks to the bottom of the sea?
Written by STIRLING SILLIPHANT and WENDELL MAYES from the novel by PAUL CALLICO Produced by IRWIN ALLEN
Directed by RONALD NEAME. Films: pp 16-17 (First showing on British television)

with Magnus Magnusson
' The Painted Hall' of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, provides the historic setting for this year's Mastermind Final. The finalists are: Joe West (helicopter pilot)
Royal Navy History 1794-1805
John McLeod (local government officer) Career of Oliver Cromwell Philip Jenkins (research assistant) History of Wales AD 400-1100 Best Runner-up
Director ANTONIA CHARLTON Producer BILL WRIGHT
Applications are invited for the 1980 series of Mastermind. Please apply for an application form, on a postcard, to: Mastermind, Room 3016, Kensington House, Richmond Way, London W14 OAX

Kenneth Kendall; Weather