BBC Television Outside Broadcast cameras cover some of this afternoon's principal races.

1.15 Mistletoe Novice Steeplechase over 2 miles

1.45 Heathorn Handicap Hurdle over 2 miles

2.15 King George VI Steeplechase over 3 miles

2.45 Egham Novice Hurdle over 2 miles

Commentator, Peter O'Sullevan
Clive Graham identifies the horses and jockeys in the Paddock before each race

A Hungarian cartoon film about the struggle between a giant and a poor country boy. Two tiny oxen come to the boy's help and together they rout the wicked ogre.

[Starring] Joel McCrea
A film set in the vast desert spaces near the Mexican border. It is the story of a chase, in which the hero must first be caught if he is ever to be really free...
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Starring champion skaters of Europe and the world.
You are invited to join the audience in the Messepalast, Vienna, to see the last part of the matinee performance of this spectacular Christmas show.
Presented by the Austrian Television Service

Today's football and racing results and other sporting highlights.
Introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme.

The Arabian Nights' Tale made into a play for television and produced by Rex Tucker.

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[Starring] John Garfield and Lilli Palmer in the film Body and Soul
This story of the American fight game provided John Garfield with perhaps the most dramatically exciting part of his career. He plays a boy from the East-side who fights his way to a world title in the boxing ring-at the risk of his personal happiness and even of his self-respect.
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Billy Cotton and Vera Lynn are your host and hostess at a Boxing Day Party
with their guest star, George Formby.
Also including Eric Robinson, Alan Breeze, Kathie Kay, Rodolpho, The Leslie Roberts Silhouettes.
Musical interruptions by Billy Cotton's Band
Eric Robinson and his Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum)

(Vera Lynn and Billy Cotton appear by arrangement with Billy Cotton and Vera Lynn)

From the novel by Anthony Hope.
[Starring] Robert Shaw, Sarah Lawson, John Westbrook
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A Christmas Edition of Old-Time Music-Hall presenting:
The Musketeers, Allen Brothers and June, Billy McComb, The Dancing McKennas, Bill Waddington, Darlys Dogs, Laurie Lupino Lane and George Truzzi

Chairman, Leonard Sachs

(From the City Varieties Theatre, Leeds by arrangement with Harry Joseph)