Have you heard the magic word?
It's 'Abracadabra'.
Can you shout and call it out? It's 'Abracadabra'.
Hold your breath and wait for something wonderful and weird
-Abracadabra
Now look what's appeared! Presenters
Stuart Bradley Elizabeth Watts
Guest Nicola Katrak
Story: Another Mince Pie by H.E. TODD

with Bryan Murray
Josette Simon and Tony Osoba
Why do Jewish people eat apples dipped in honey at their New Year celebrations and what would make a wealthy prince give up his life of luxury?
Script editor NOEL VINCENT Director CELIA THOMSON Producer JUDY MERRY BBC Manchester

Thousands of young people from all over Europe are descending on London this weekend as part of the Taize community's 'Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth'.
From a marquee in the grounds of Westminster Abbey, Noel Battye joins two people who are in London for the gathering in a simple service of prayer and meditation.
Director MARK WADDINGTON
Series producer HELEN ALEXANDER

Ghazala Amin presents a miscellany of music featuring Abida Parveen
Mohammed Alaur Rahman Najma Akhtar
Vishwa Prakash and Loveleena Labroo
An ASIAN UNIT presentation BBC Pebble Mill

Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck star as virtuoso concert pianists in this unorthodox animation-plus-live-action version of Saint-Saens' orchestral suite, with verses by OGDEN NASH
Stage management PORKY PIG Produced, written and directed by CHUCK JONES (R)

starring
Peter Sellers
Wilfrid Hyde White Bernard Cribbins Lionel Jeffries
A gang of crooks plans a daring diamond robbery for which they have the perfect alibi - they are all in jail!
But the masterplan is threatened by the sudden arrival of a new chief warden, the immovable Sidney Crout.
Original story and screenplay by JOHN WARREN and LEN HEATH
Produced by M. SMEDLEY ASTON Directed by ROBERT DAY
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starring
Bernard Cribbins Kenneth Williams Juliet Mills with Charles Hawtrey Donald Houston
Cecil Parker
As motley a crew as ever set sail for the Spanish Main - the Carry On team, presided over by an inappropriately named
Captain Fearless, try, not very successfully, to find the Nelson touch in this large helping of nautical nonsense.
Screenplay by TALBOT ROTHWELL Produced by PETER ROGERS Directed by GERALD THOMAS 0 FILMS: page 27

by Bill Lyons and Tony Holland.
'We've gotta look after the children, haven't we? Specially at Christmas..."
(Ceefax Subtitles)

Seven teams from around the world compete in a non-stop bird-spotting marathon in Kenya. There are 1,000 kinds of colourful bird in East
Africa, but how many can be found by the champion spotters in just 48 hours?
Bill Oddie is one of them.
They battle it out, with the help of aircraft and the lakes, mountains, savannah and seashore of Kenya, to break the world's bird-watching record.
The aim? To raise money for a hospital in Nairobi for handicapped children. Photography HUGH MAYNARD
Assistant producer RON MARTIN Producer ADRIAN WARREN BBC Bristol

The 15-year-old Anglesey treble sings some of his favourite songs in a concert given to a packed St David's Hall in Cardiff.
BBC Welsh Chorus
Soloists Vanessa Thomas, Don Smith
Chorus Master John Hugh Thomas
Organist Huw Tregelles Williams
Compere Chris Stuart
BBC Wales

starring
Dinah Sheridan Jenny Agutter
Bernard Cribbins
'They were not railway children to begin with ...they were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their father and mother in an ordinary redbrick-fronted villa ...' The adventures of Roberta ('Bobbie'), Phyllis and Peter are brought to the screen in Lionel Jeffries 's enchanting film, which perfectly captures the magic and charm of the book.
Screenplay by LIONEL JEFFRIES based on the novel by E. NESBIT Produced by ROBERT LYNN
Directed by LIONEL JEFFRIES
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with Moira Stuart Weather BILL GILES

Songs of Praise links Trafalgar Square with Tonga

A wintry Sunday night by the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square; a palm-fringed coral beach, already drenched in Monday's sunshine.

The two are brought together by satellite as Christians on either side of the globe unite to sing their favourite carols and hymns.

The kingdom of Tonga is staunchly Methodist, and also an enthusiastic member of the Commonwealth.

Roger Royle meets The Rev Nigel Gilson, President of the Methodist Conference, by the grave of the first missionary to Tonga, and 'Inoke Faletau, Director of the Commonwealth Foundation - himself a Tongan. Rosalind Green, a young Methodist, travels to Tonga to be welcomed by Malakai Vakasiula's family; and Malakai comes to England to meet Rosalind's family and friends.

Go tell it on the mountain; Christians awake (Yorkshire); Jesus shall reign (Truro); Away in a manger; The zither carol; The Lord's prayer (African Sanctus); The day thou gavest, Lord (St Clement)

(Ceefax subtitles)

by Roy Clarke
starring Michael Aldridge, Bill Owen, Peter Sallis and Thora Hird as Edie with Jane Freeman, Joe Gladwin, Kathy Staff
A Santa on a bike with an advertising board is too much for Seymour's sense of traditional values. He resolves to put some of the magic back into Christmas by putting Santa back where he belongs - on a rooftop near a chimney. Clegg is an ideal, if unwilling, helper, but who has the charisma and the wellies to play Father Christmas..?
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Begins a season of films starring the renowned actor. Tonight with Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Bill Murray, Charles Durning
Actor Michael Dorsey has a problem getting work - nobody wants to hire him. His agent George says this is because of his reputation for being difficult - Michael is outraged and determined to prove him wrong.
(First showing on British television)
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with Moira Stuart
Weather

by WILLIAM NICHOLSON
The story of the experiment that became America.
An Everyman presentation starring
The pioneers who sailed on the Mayflower had very different dreams of what their 'New World' could be. One group planned a communal state where all would love each other, the other group were adventurers out to make their fortune backed by the power of the gun. and Music by STANLEY MYERS Photography RUSS WALKER Designer GERALD MURPHY
Film editor CHRIS LAWRENCE Producer DAVID M. THOMPSON
Director NORMAN STONE BBC Wales 0 FEATURE: page 144 * CEEFAX SUBTITLES